Category: Breads, Cakes & Muffins

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  Cheddar Soda Bread

  Posted at 10:06 am by tastewithoutwaste

  Dec 7th

  It’s a glorious summer day, the sunshine warming one’s back and adding a spring to the step. The kind of day where you’d be daft to not pack up a picnic and trot off to the closest park/beach/nature reserve. Have work? No issue, throw down a picnic rug in the backyard when you get home and make dinner a picnic affair. If you live anywhere like Melbourne, the climate is darn unpredictable – hot one day, stormy the next and grey drizzle the following. So embrace the glorious weather while it’s there! A staple of any decent picnic is bread. Yes, there’s couscous, quiche, pasta salad and other starch/carbohydrate based meals galore – all brilliant in their own right – but it’s nigh on impossible to beat a freshly baked loaf of bread. It needn’t be of your own making, especially if you’re pressed for time, and even if you do have the minutes up your sleeve it needn’t be fancy or tear-your-hair-out difficult. Welcome to the world of soda bread! Continue reading →
  Posted in Breads, Cakes & Muffins | Tagged Bread, cheddar, Cheese, picnic
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  Flat Breads

  Posted at 12:31 pm by tastewithoutwaste

  Apr 13th

  You might have already guessed that I’m big on bread. And sure, eating it is fine and dandy, but it’s the actual process of making it that really tickles my toes. There’s a multitude possibilities – sweet, enriched doughs, basic soda breads, damper, a simple white loaf, hardier whole-wheat ones studded with grains or even nuts/seeds, pizza bases, flat breads…And today my friends it’s the flat breads that’ll be stepping into the spotlight. With a shorter rising time than many breads they don’t require nearly as much patience as some of their kin (you only have to leave the dough to rise once). And don’t bother turning the oven on – you won’t be needing it! A frying pan will do the trick, thank you very much. Continue reading →
  Posted in Breads, Cakes & Muffins, Mains, Sides & Appetisers | Tagged Bread, Flat Bread, Whole-wheat, Yeast
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  Cheese Scones

  Posted at 9:49 pm by tastewithoutwaste

  Mar 10th

  My grandmother is one of my ultimate cooking heroes. She’s up there with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Rachel Khoo. I cherish the memories of being a wee lass and sitting on the counter/kneeling on a chair/standing on tiptoes at the counter/wearing the new apron that we sewed (confession: I still wear it) helping her shape biscuits, sift dry ingredients, cream butter and sugar, and eventually doing the whole thing myself. Never pushy, never impatient, ever happy to answer the many mundane ‘why granny, why?’ questions, she was – and still is – the ideal culinary instructor. She’s been making these cheese scones for yonks, and for a person who isn’t the biggest fan of savoury scones these sure do okay. Actually, you know what, I’m going to go out on a limb and say they’re actually the bees knees. Continue reading →

  Posted in Breads, Cakes & Muffins, Sides & Appetisers | Tagged Cheese, Savoury, Scone, Vegetarian
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  Chocolate Beetroot Cake

  Posted at 9:43 am by tastewithoutwaste

  Feb 23rd

  I think it would be accurate to say that I can be a twit at times. It appears that not even attending the University of Oxford prevents one suffering from the affliction of ‘donkey brain’.  The baking of this Chocolate Beetroot Bundt Cake witnessed one such pea-brain episode. The sad thing is, it’s not even a hard cake to make. Practically an all-in-one. The hardest thing is preparing the bundt tin. Knowing that you’re meant to stir the chocolate chips in before the cake goes into the oven is kind of expected. Remembering that after the cake has been in the oven for five minutes is not part of the recipe. Uttering a series of expletives, pulling the cake frantically back out of the oven (my pastry teachers would have a heart attack if they witnessed that) and pushing the chocolate chips into the top of the partially risen, hot, soft batter certainly isn’t. Fortunately, this episode of Shani-is-a-bimbo wasn’t terminal. I’m pleased to announce that the cake turned out a-okay. You can’t say this Chocolate Beetroot Bundt Cake hasn’t been adequately tested for fool-proof-ness – it was tested by the fool herself. Continue reading →

  Posted in Breads, Cakes & Muffins, Desserts | Tagged Apple Sauce, Beetroot, Bundt, Cake, Chocolate
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  Fruit, Seed & Walnut Bread

  Posted at 12:03 pm by tastewithoutwaste

  Feb 4th

  Going out for breakfast to celebrate special occasions/the completion of something significant is a tradition in my family. Fortunately it didn’t take much to cajole two of my housemates into doing so after I had finished working at the Australian Open. We ventured to a brilliant joint on the other side of Melbourne and were duly rewarded with the three meals we ordered. However (there’s always a however isn’t there?) I was also able to smugly proclaim that whilst their fig, apricot and pistachio loaf was very tasty indeed, it did not quite live up to that made by yours truly. Boastful? Moi? Let’s just say that this Fruit, Seed & Walnut Bread is one of the best things you’ll ever put down your gullet. Modest, I know. Continue reading →

  Posted in Breads, Cakes & Muffins, Breakfast | Tagged Bread, Breakfast, Dried Fruit, Fruit Loaf, Seeds, Walnut

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  Hullo! I'm Shani. Thanks for stopping by! Here you'll find vegetarian recipes oriented towards balancing that fickle line between supreme indulgence and wholesome eating. There's also many a musing about food waste (and it's many manifestations), with tips on how to reduce it at a household level. To find out more, hit the 'About' tab in the top menu...