Kushari is an Egyptian vegetarian dish made of a rice and lentil base and covered with a spicy tomato sauce. It is commonly found as a street-stall food, where it is a cheap but nutritious meal or snack.
Dahl is a staple of many Asian cuisines. Spelt dal, dahl or even daal it is basically the equivalent of a hearty thick vegetable soup, but using lentils and a colourful array of spices. Lentils are a fantastic (and cheap!) source of protein.
We are still "cutting" this week so carbs are still on the d-low (excluding the three batches of cookies, cupcakes, cake, ice cream, sour hearts, tinned caramel and crunchy hazelnut spread).
Hello again and happy first week back at uni! So it looks like I am back for another year! It is actually a good thing that I am starting this up again. Our diet during O-week was not very...
Good morning to you all. I love Thai food. It's the best. Although, to be fair, I am a bit boring in my ordering when I go out. I always, always get pad Thai. When my family and I go out...
Leeks and potatoes. Two cheap vegetables that are a bit boring separately but when they are put together, magic happens.
Sophie Edmonds
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Wow, I do believe that this is the first time I have used beef mince in a recipe here. To be honest, since starting this blog we haven't actually eaten any beef mince.
I love pea risotto. It's my favourite dinner. It has peas and risotto and if you are home at mum and dad's there is parmesan cheese and basil pesto too!
Hi there, I was walking back from the gym last weekend absolutely starving and planning to the last crumb what I was going to have for dinner that night. I was tossing up between getting Velvet or getting some pad Thai when I suddenly had this epic craving for rice-paper spring rolls.
The other day three of us from our University of Otago food quality management paper took a field trip to the Pasta D'oro factory in Dunedin. Other than leaving with a new appreciation for hand-crafted fresh pasta we also left with a few goodies, including a nice jar of sun-dried tomato pesto.
If our flat was a country, its national dish would be corn fritters. We could eat corn fritters every night if we wanted and never ever get tired of them. I have made them so many times that I can whip up the mixture for a batch in under a minute (including sprinting out to the garden to get herbs). We even bought a second frying pan for the sole purpose of being able to cook more of them at once.
I first started making venison burgers at the beginning of this year when I found packs of venison mince for only $5 at the farmer's market. When we are feeling rich we plaster on the aioli and pile on the Camembert. Om nom nom.
The following is an accurate account of my adventures with a 4.5kg free-range Crozier's turkey.
The best thing about writing this blog is that I have to think up something new to make every week to write about. This means that I have had to force myself to escape the usual routine meals (mostly corn fritters to be honest) and make it seem as though the flat has a vast variety of cuisines on which to dine.
Hello! Slow-cookers are very underrated.
Hi there! This week I decided to make Mexican meatball soup. If you don't like coriander, stop reading now.
Hi there! My name is Sophie, I'm a third-year food innovation student at the University of Otago.
