Tag: Photos
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Minestrone Soup
This isn’t a recipe for an authentic minestrone soup. I don’t know what an authentic one is but every cookbook I looked at seemed to make it in a completely different way. My version was to look at some pictures and have a “use it or lose it” day with the contents of the vegetable…
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Couscous Salad
A couscous salad is a quick and tasty vegetarian snack or a nice addition to a tapas selection. In addition to the couscous, you can add things like chickpeas, spring onions, tomatoes, capsicum peppers, herbs, dried fruit. Here’s my version. Ingredients (Serves 4 as a tapa dish) 175 g (6oz) couscous 1 tbsp butter (optional)…
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Sushi – California Style Nori (uramakizushi)
Here are some suggested ingredients for making California nori rolls. Batons of salmon, avocado, salmon roe, and wasabi. I also used mayonnaise but forgot to include it in the photo. Having made sushi rice, and simpler nori rolls, now I’m making California-style rolls with the remainder of the sushi rice. This is a bit messier…
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Sushi – Nori Rolls (makizushi)
Easy recipe for making this Japanese snack – perhaps the first thing most of us think of when we hear the word sushi.