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I've been cooking quite a lot of Middle Eastern recipes recently.  It started with the    Iranian Pearl Barley Soup known as  Ash-e Jo  or  Ash-e-Jow   early this year when we had freakish snow and with the unusual hot weather continuing, now I have Etsis Turlu .     According to the cookbook author this  Etsis Turlu  comes from Turkey. With the rain over the weekend, it was the perfect excuse to make a stew more suited for autumnal days and colder evenings, but i have lots of summer vegetables including courgettes, marrows and green beans coming from the garden that I wanted  to make the most of it, even if it is the height of summer. This stew will last us good three days of the working week and we intend to eat it with couscous, bulgar wheat, rice or crusty bread.   I am sharing this  Etsis Turlu Stew  with   Kahakai Kitchen .  Adapted from Vegetarian Dishes from the Middle E...

After visiting the cathedral city of  Herefordshire  last month, we drove on to Shrewsbury where w e had planned an overnight stay so that we could go to the  Shrewsbury flea market   the following morning that hosted between 100 - 150 traders selling, a mixture of antiques, collectables, vintage, architectural salvage, reclamation and quirky things.  Unfortunately when we got into Shrewsbury it was raining heavy with rain and a number of places were closing or already closed.  We wandered in and out of those places, that were still open and of course wandered the streets looking for somewhere to eat that evening, as well as playing tourist in the little time we had.  A statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury most famous son born in 1809. This statue is situated outside of the library.  Shropshire writer Mary Webb. On the banks of the river Severn you will find the Quantum Leap.  An abstract sculpture known by locals as 'The Ski...

I've made tempura before , many times - but the one and only time it has featured on my blog was in my first proper year of blogging 2009.    I like to try recipes from cookbooks on my shelf, but there are some books I return to more than others.   I had originally planned to make peixinhos da horta which I saw Sarah Beattie tweet and found in her cookbook  vegan Japanese restaurant in Shrewsbury recently, D made me change my mind as he wanted us to make the most of the vegetables we had in the house, as well as those coming from the garden and suggested tempura instead,  so I plucked for her tempura recipe instead.  Sarah's tempura is made with asparagus, mine are made with  Assorted vegetables. From the garden we have: green beans and courgettes, the yellow and green variety; and from the vegetable basket: cauliflower, red onion and some mild green chilies known as Padron .   Delicious. Since I was gifted  Meat ...

Marrows are plentiful in my home this month, so much so that I have given some away, mostly to family who have been more accepting of them than neighbours who have said 'Thank you, but no thank you'. We also have some windfall cooking apples (not pictured).  Its the first year, our apple tree is giving us any at all, but the plum tree this year is not plentiful.   I don't want to grumble, we still have plums - but I don't think I will be giving many of them away this year.  Also a number of them, when I have cut them open to use in cake have been black.  So come this weekend, I will be making more  Cinnamon Plum Jam. I had planned  to show off some of my homegrown tomatoes, but I am afraid we ate them pretty quick over the weekend in three different dishes. I hope to share some next week, or the week after, but in the meantime here is a view from my conservatory window.  Isn't it splendid?!.   We picked up this battered galvan...

Everybody seems to be going crazy for black chickpeas which surprises me.  Black chickpeas are a staple in many South Asian homes.  Black chickpeas are known as kala channa  or  kala cholay.     I've never featured black chickpeas on my blog for two reasons.  My family, either my mother or sister in laws make it for me when I go over and its not that often, so its hearty humble vegetarian food for my belly and secondly,  I find its time consuming to soak the black chickpeas overnight and then cook it slowly - when its mostly me eating them, as D is not that keen on them.  It is worth cooking from scratch  though as the flavour is completely different to the traditional chickpea.  Black chickpeas are more nutty.  So it was interesting to try some black chickpeas that come ready cooked in a tin. I've a few original black chickpea recipe ideas up my head, but this time I wanted to keep it simple and true to my heritage and...

Well its a Bank holiday i the UK and in true British tradition, the skies are pouring with rain.  Its a proper soggy Sunday that I dare not even go out in the garden and pick some fresh herbs for our dinner later today.   I made these Courgette and Black Flame Raisins Muffins a fortnight ago with courgettes from the garden allotment plot, by the way the courgette plants are still giving. The recipe is from  Sarah Beattie cookbook Meat-Free Any Day .  I just decided not to make the icing for these sweet vegetarian muffins as I did not have any cream cheese for the icing.    As the recipe makes a dozen, I decided to take some into work to share with my new work colleagues, they have been described as gannets by some of the others, so I had not doubt they would be gone.  But when I went into the kitchen later that afternoon, the number had hardly shrunk, my heart sunk a little.  Someone who did try a muffin and did really enjoy it, said to...

Regular blog readers may recognise this  Cacao Nibs, Dark Chocolate and Cocoa Muesli  has featured on my blog before, but I decided to make and showcase it again, as its one cereal I am happy tucking into.   Its really a muesli base enhanced with organic  cacao nibs, cocoa powder and grated raw dark chocolate. I have to admit cacao nibs are not to everyones taste, its very distinct in flavour - a tad bitter, but before dismissing it all together, give it a try, you just never know.  I acquired a taste for cacao nibs since making some raw chocolate  four years ago and its been making an appearance in my kitchen slowly but surely. Actually the last recipe I made with it was  Sweet Potato Fudge from  Bite Sized Thoughts.    I am sharing this with the last ever The Chocolate Chili Round Up The Chocolate Mango Round Up Chili Chocolate Salsa White Chocolate Banoffee Roulade Red Dragon Chili Brownies Parsnip and White Cho...