Meatless Monday – Shitake mushroom, water chestnut and ginger dumpling

A friend held a dumpling night a while back, everyone brings a filling and we make the dumplings on a long table  ready for steaming. I never made dumpling before, but it was the perfect time to figure out how to this dumpling thing. I googled this dumpling  recipe, and made a bit of modification… Continue reading Meatless Monday – Shitake mushroom, water chestnut and ginger dumpling

Meatless Monday – Mini vegetable fritatta

I was pleasantly surprised to find more than 500 views for my last post, thanks to Kimbra’s Facebook page. Thank you! You basically made up for my entire blog’s traffic within a single day! It inspired me a little to get back on the blogging bandwagon, so here’s today’s Meatless Monday post. I’m a huge… Continue reading Meatless Monday – Mini vegetable fritatta

Meatless Monday: Spinach, red onion and feta tart

A crazy few weeks and being stranded in odd cities for work and leisure thanks to the ash cloud meant that I am a bit behind on posting (again1!). Nevertheless, here’s let’s hope we stay back on track with this simple, but delicious Spinach, red onion and feta tart. I found the recipe from one… Continue reading Meatless Monday: Spinach, red onion and feta tart

Meatless Monday: Shepherd’s Pie with Lentils

Winter is well and truly here. The weather has turned from the pretty leaves on the ground stage to doonas and incredibly unattractive long john stage. With that in mind, comfort food is the way to go and nothing spells out comfort food like Shepherd Pie. This particular recipe was taken from Taste.com.au  with a few… Continue reading Meatless Monday: Shepherd’s Pie with Lentils

MSG #19 – Sydney Portugal Community Club Restaurant Marrickville

After talking about doing a planned tour of Sydney’s Community Club, we finally went to our second community club as one of the Midweek Supper Group outings (the Japanese Club, being the first and I still need to blog it!).  Yewenyi suggested the Portuguese Community Club in Marrickville and that fit the bill of being… Continue reading MSG #19 – Sydney Portugal Community Club Restaurant Marrickville

Malaysian Kitchen Market – but don’t bring your vegetarian friends here

Nearly a quarter into the year and this year is crazily moving a little too quick for me yet again. I remembered thinking that I should post the photo above in early January and almost 2 months later here we are. So what’s new? Sydney seemed to have really picked up recently with the Malaysian… Continue reading Malaysian Kitchen Market – but don’t bring your vegetarian friends here