Posted by kathryn in A Balanced Diet, Vegetables and Main courses

• Mental health: Finding Optimism has a wonderful series on being the partner of someone with depression. The posts are written by Anna, the wife of Finding Optimism’s blogger James. It’s a personal, but practical look at how to cope if the person you love has a mental health issue. The series starts here: the depression dialogue.
• Mediterranean diet: Revolution Health has a post about the Mediterranean diet – the “behind the scenes” facts which make this way of eating work.
• Muffins: I’m intrigued by these cottage cheese muffins from 101 Cookbooks. They can be made gluten free, contain a decent whack of vegetarian protein, PLUS vegetables. I’m hoping to make some this weekend.
• Pasta: I just love the look of this pasta with fetta, yellow capsicum and snowpeas from Oswego Tea. It started out as a salad, then turned into a pasta meal. Not only does it look delicious, but there’s a high veg to pasta ratio.
• MORE beetroot cake: While I don’t normally link to cake recipes, how could I go past this beetroot cake recipe from Lisa’s Kitchen. No chocolate this time, but spices and citrus tang instead.
• Saag paneer: We have a house full of silverbeet. It was on special at Harris Farm Market this week – two bunches for $1.95. Despite already having some in the freezer and also the garden, we of course bought the two bunches. The consequence of this . . . I’m looking for ways to use bulk amounts of spinach. Which means Quick Indian Cooking’s saag paneer is a perfect dish – although Mallika makes hers with frozen spinach for speed and simplicity.

Photography by sheriffmitchell under the terms of a creative commons license

05 October, 2007