Tag Archive 'beetroot'

…make beetroot pasta

Making your own pasta is really quick and easy and you can’t beat it for thinks like tagliatelle, cannelloni and lasagne.  I used to make it often even before one of my favourite people (and the person who taught me to make pasta) gifted me with the pasta rollers and cutters for my kitchenaid.
My point [...]

African Kitsch

I admit it. I love kitsch. But not just any kitsch. Specifically that peculiarly, joyously colorful, sundrenched African kitsch. It stops me in my tracks. It speaks to me on some visceral level. It beckons with little cameos of home.
It wasn’t always that way. Growing up I was [...]

Roasted Beetroot Baked Risotto

Yep, that’s right, this is a baked risotto. That just means I started it off like an ordinary risotto, and finished it off in the oven. It doesn’t mean that it has to be done that way. You can just stick to the basic risotto formula of stand and stir. No problem.
But first, the beetroot.

Trim [...]