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Voatsiperifery black rice salad

Day 8: Voatsiperifery pepper: Piper borbonense. Photos of the rice salad were taken by my son Jude who is a much better photographer than me. This wild pepper grows in Madagascar. A close relative of black pepper, its berries are … Continue reading

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Avocado and pink grapefruit starter with Timur berries

Day 5: Timur berry: Zanthoxylum armatum This Nepalese pepper grows wild on small trees in the Mahabharat range in Nepal. With its fresh citrus scent it is easy to see why it gets called the grapefruit pepper. I put half … Continue reading

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Fig, walnut, blackberry and spinach salad

This is a simple five-ingredients salad for autumn (fall), when summer is coming to an end and the evenings are feeling cooler. I failed to get out blackberrying this year but bought the biggest, tastiest blackberries from a local shop, … Continue reading

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Beetroot, apple, kale and freekeh salad

Vegan Mofo 2019: Tuesday 20th August Spring salad – keep it green with a light, tasty salad! Freekeh (frikeh or farik) is a cereal made from young grains of wheat harvested and toasted. It has a nutty taste and chewy … Continue reading

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Seasonal Selfish Salad

Theme: You do make friends with salad – A salad to win anyone’s heart This salad is made up using seasonal veg. The spinach, squash and beetroot came from the allotment garden next door and the basil (for the pesto) … Continue reading

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Tiffin salad

Day 15 in the 2016 VeganMoFo: Multicolour – Fit as many colours as you can into one meal! Tiffin salad Tiffin carriers are a kind of lunch box used widely in South Asia. In Mumbai, there is a complex and efficient … Continue reading

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