Archive for September, 2009
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Choco-coconut azuki bean brownies
Healthy brownies are all the rage. Adapted from a cookbook dedicated to cooking with agave nectar by Ania Catalano, Heidi’s infamous black bean brownies have taken the food blogs by storm. Now we’ve got red bean azuki brownies. The beans replace the flour, give texture, lend their crumbly nature and render something sinful slightly less [...]
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Bean bowl – Sweet and salty azuki with almondy wild rice and quinoa
Small, red and eaten extensively in China and Japan, azuki beans are often eaten as a good luck or celebratory dish in Japan being cooked with sticky rice to form the red rice dish sekihan. Boiled with sugar they form the red bean paste commonly used in Chinese and Japanese desserts and are used to [...]
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Dukka
While spending a couple of days recently in The Hunter Valley, one of Australia’s wine regions, I couldn’t help but wonder why on earth Dukka was served everywhere. Each restaurant seemed to offer a starter of sourdough and dukka (or dukkah)…and always at a price too. It’s not something you come across in Paris ever [...]
