Love

I happened to be standing next to these two most lovely girls and eating their food at the same time. It was great, incredibly delicious, beautifully wonderous and interesting to learn that avocado and tomato could somehow taste like mango. On my plate is a zucchini pasta and a fennel and blood orange salad. Thankyou, so happy.

Garden + sprouts + tahina

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Dandelion greens, milk thistle, spicy rocket, curly lettuce, parsley, nasturtium and calendula flowers.
Mung, buckwheat and lentil sprouts, soaked almonds.
grated carrot, a little avocado and a bit of fried organic tempeh
Tahini miso sauce (1 tbs tahini, 1 tbs genmai miso, water, 1 tsp hemp oil)
thankyou

Definately need a rainbow

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greens from garden, including curly lettuce that tasted salty and dandelion greens
grated carrot
purple cabbage sauerkraut
sprinkle of lentil sprouts
nasturtium
dressing of hemp oil, ume su; umeboshi plum vinegar and organic Eden yellow mustard
then I added a scrambled egg on the side (from our chooks)
I was trying to emulate something similar to my favorite salad I was making when I was Avignon (Sud de France) last year. It was simple - beautiful round leaved lettuce, maybe it's called butterhead in English, carrot lacto-ferment (karotten sauerkraut), delicious gomasio!! (that's what the salad I just made now definately lacked) and a dressing of amazing french biologique mustard, ume su and some organic cold pressed oil made out of yellow flowers. It was the best but the ingredients were all locally specific and I guess all food moments are about time and space and being wherever you are enjoying things as they are. I really enjoyed my rainbow salad moment in the last light of the day.

Serious chewing

Massaged kale with sprouts and tahina
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Cut kale into inch pieces, sprinkle with salt and lemon juice, then massage with your hands until juicy.
1 tbs hemp oil
2 organic Roma tomotatoes (bought in Daylesford yesterday)
A small handful of sprouted quinoa and sunflower seeds
1 tbs hempseed protein
6 or so biodynamic kalamata olives
Topped with a simple tahina (tahini, water)

Disco beans!!

After walking most of the afternoon and into the evening, I arrived at Disco Beans close to closing, I wasn't overly hungry but it had been quite some time since I last ate and was passing into overeaten (like overtired, when your past hungry). The menu is totally packed with amazingness, it took me awhile to decide, I meandered around things then Lara supported the opting of a tofu salad with homemade mayo. Yuka brought it out from the kitchen and I was instantly in love. So beautiful, so nice, super crisp greens and I didnt realise tofu was so good. This place is very special.
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disco beans
238 High St Northcote

Sometimes you need a rainbow

Lydia's stall at Addison Rd. Markets

Lydia's amazing 'Earth Plate'

Undergrowth salad

Blood Orange Fennel Quinoa Salad

A bowl all together

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Tessa -  salad: blood oranges, fennel root and tops, purple chicory, rocket, cos, raddichio

Karl - cooked red and white quinoa, shitake, giant Swiss brown, and yellow oyster mushrooms

Chay-Ya - sauce: unhulled tahini, genmai miso, walnut oil and water

Making dosa for lunch

Ive made Dosa experiments several times in the last couple of weeks. I really enjoy the flavour and texture of these pancakes, they are delicious, though im sure mine would be quite different to traditional dosa, I was happy with todays recipe.
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1/2 cup of organic white rice soaked for a day and ground up in mortar and pestle (you could use a blender)
1/2 cup of whole red lentils soaked and beginning to sprout, also ground up, some lentils were left whole
1/2 cup of kefir, I used biodynamic cows milk kefir because thats what I had, this is to kickstart the souring process. Which develops the flavours and extra healthful qualities of dosa. You could also use some sourdough culture (maybe even yoghurt?) or leave the mixture to ferment naturally for a few days.

The ingredients were mixed together into a thick paste and left in a jar for a day to ferment. When ready to cook I added some pink salt, a little extra water, a few dried garlic granules because they were beside the stove and I thought why not, and a little bit of cinnamon powder.
I fried them on a low heat using a thin layer of coconut oil in a heavy cast iron pan. It is best to let the dosa cook well on one side until the top becomes dry, then flipping is a simple endeavour and they hold together well. It doesnt need much cooking at all on the other side. Dosa are flavoursome enough to enjoy on their own, today mum and I ate them for lunch with salads and tahina sauce.

Sprouty squish crunch salad

The squish is the beautifully ripe flavoursome tomatoes, the sprouts are quinoa and sunflower seeds (sprouts grow so slow in a cold house in winter so their tails are small but the lively freshness is there), super crunchy and sweet buk choy, calendula flower petals, and parsley. The salad is dressed with lots of dulse flakes, a tiny bit of salt and lemon juice. I can't remember if there was any oil, a dash of olive oil ewould go down asily.