April 2008

Vanilla and Cardamom Rice Pudding

by Peter G April 29, 2008 Recipes
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Rice puddings infused with vanilla, cardamom and topped with mango Its time again for the Royal Foodie Joust. I’ve been participating in these for the last few months and I thoroughly enjoy them. You can read all about the joust here. The winner of last month’s Joust, Michelle chose her three ingredients for the challenge. She opted for cardamom, brown sugar and mangoes. A very “exotic” combination! As usual, I [...]

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It’s Greek Easter…

by Peter G April 23, 2008 Greek Food
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This Sunday coming, Greeks all over the world will be celebrating Easter. Its a very big event in Greek culture with many traditions and religious rituals. There’s Lent with the fasting, the many cakes, breads, biscuits and of course the dyed eggs. Its a wonderful time with Easter Sunday being the “big day”. Everyone feasts and eats so much food!!! The week leading up to Easter Sunday is termed as [...]

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Quick Soup and a Memoir

by Peter G April 17, 2008 Recipes
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Warming Pea and Spinach Soup I always keep frozen veggies on hand. They come in very handy when a quick meal is needed and can rescue a dull meal. My “always on” stand by frozen vegetables are peas. They’re great for a quick pea mash to accompany a roast or grilled meat and I love their use in pasta. They’re sweet, juicy and full of flavour. It’s a vegetable that [...]

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Banana Jam

by Peter G April 13, 2008 Recipes
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Pixie from “You Say Tomatoh, I Say Tomayto” and Rosie from “Rosie Bakes, A Peace Of Cake” are holding a food blogging event titled “Putting Up”. These lovely lasses are asking for us to submit recipes relating to home made preserves, jams, jellies, curds, butters etc… I recently had the pleasure of making my first curd using passionfruit. It was received with wonderful success and I enjoyed using it in [...]

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Roast Chicken Drumsticks

by Peter G April 10, 2008 Recipes
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Chicken drumsticks with rosemary and lemon The weather’s gone haywire. Here we are midway through autumn and its gloriously warm with temperatures in the mid 20′s. A few weeks ago I started to see brown and red leaves on the trees and today I see flowers in beautiful bloom! Anyway, I was in no mood for soups or stews so I decided to roast some chicken drumsticks. I could have [...]

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Honey and Oat Cranberry Bites

by Peter G April 6, 2008 Recipes
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Some of the ingredients for the recipe Ben over at Whats Cooking is holding another food for plastic challenge this month. This is a fun event that also offers great prizes. You can’t beat that can you? This month’s challenge focuses on cooking something that you loved from your childhood or something that kids love. And because April is kids month, Tupperware (who are supplying the gift) are donating $1 [...]

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Baby Bok Choy

by Peter G April 5, 2008 Recipes
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Steamed Baby Bok Choy Time for some vegies. I have been craving steamed, green vegetables for a few days now. So, instead of heading down the asparagus/broccoli route I opted for some good ol’ Chinese cabbage. Other wise known as bok choy or Pak choi. There are so many names and spelling variations of this vegetable I can’t cope! Its very simple to make and very high in antioxidants and [...]

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New Design…New Season

by Peter G April 4, 2008 Personal

After a few weeks of playing around with different themes I launch the autumn/winter edition of Souvlaki For The Soul. Now, it may not be to everyone’s taste but I really like this design for its ability to use 3 columns. Something I haven’t utilised before. I maintained the “wooden” look by incorporating a deep mahogany red as my background. And I think its very fitting for autumn/fall. Tomorrow we [...]

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