From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Strawberry and cucumber salad

by Alice on April 14, 2008

I’ve always loved strawberries and cucumber, but never thought about having them together as main ingredients in a salad. I got the idea from a book on vegetarian Indian cuisine (Yamuna Devi’s The Best of Lord Krishna’s Cuisine), and slightly changed the recipe. This sweet-savoury salad is indeed very light and refreshing, and works perfectly as a salad, [...]


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Mixed berry jelly with white chocolate sauce

by Alice on April 4, 2008

One of my favourite ingredients is agar, also known as kanten, an excellent vegetarian substitute for gelatine. This natural gelling agent is obtained from algae or seaweeds (but it doesn’t taste as such, which is certainly a plus!) and can be used instead of ordinary gelatine of animal origin. I use a lot of agar: [...]


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