Category Archives: vegetable
Carrot soup with dukkah
The ladies at the market must love it when they see me coming. I knew they would overcharge me, a towering white girl with no Vietnamese, I mean who wouldn’t? It isn’t by much, but I am sure that I’m paying the requisite white tax. I don’t mind though, I deserve it with my lack [...]
Posted in soup, vegetable
3 Comments
Carrots, Moroccan Style
Grocery shopping in Hanoi requires determination, smarts and discipline. Meat, fruits and vegetables are best bought fresh at markets that dot the city. Unfortunately I have to cross a highway to get to my closest market (insane traffic) but in a side street near my school a ladies set stalls up morning and night. Eggs, [...]
Cucumber Salad
I am forever trying to complicate things, unintentionally, but still. I spent years at university adding complexity in an attempt to find simplicity. Convoluted ideas can befuddle even the most intelligent and when that idea is about food the resulting dish will likely cause confusion and at worst, revulsion. Good food can be like great [...]
A kind of Sicilian Caponata
Does an ingredient ever grab you and hold on for dear life? Is it there constantly in the back of your mind and in the crisper drawer? Does is weasel its way in until you can’t seem to cook a meal in which it doesn’t feature? Pmum may not have said anything to me just [...]
Posted in side dish, stew, vegetable, vegetarian
3 Comments
Stuffed mushrooms
Oh, hello! I’m back in action, I’ve managed to drag myself out of the deep dark hole of lists, shopping, organisation and cooking, but only for a moment. Only for the amount of time it takes to make and blog about these delicious roasted stuffed mushrooms. Though, dropping out of the habit of writing means [...]
Posted in Dinner, recipe, side dish, vegetable, vegetarian
8 Comments
