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Souperinspiration | Vegan green curry with quinoa In 2011, seven of Thailand’s popular dishes made it to the list of the “World’s 50 Most Delicious Foods (Readers’ Pick)”— a worldwide online poll of 35,000 people by CNN Travel. Thailand had more dishes on the list than any other country. Green curry came in 19th and […]

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My Souperinspiration:  French Ratatouille French Ratatouille and its origin A really good ratatouille is not one of the quicker dishes to make, as each element is cooked separately before it is arranged in the casserole to partake of a brief communal simmer,” Julia Child writes in her preface to her 1961 Mastering the Art of […]

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My souperinspiration: Vegan Doenjang Tteokguk Tteokguk is a traditional Korean dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. The dish consists of the broth/soup (guk) with thinly sliced rice cakes (tteok – it can be called a kind of rice pasta). It is tradition to eat tteokguk on New Year’s Day because it […]

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My souperinspiration: Soulful Vegan Chilli A bowl of chilli con carne and tortilla chips. I have received countless emails from regular customers requesting us to widen our repertoire for vegan choices. This recipe is a lovely alternative to a traditional chilli con carne,  meaning”chilli with meat”. The mention of this dish never fails to prompt […]

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My souperinspiration: French Onion Soup Julia Child and her Soupe à l’oignon Nobody doesn’t like Julia Child, and I’m no exception after watching the movie Julie & Julia. Her recipes taught a generation of Americans about French food, and her approach instilled the confidence to cook it. Julia Child is absolutely one of my idols . If […]

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My souperinspiration: Bhutanese Potato cheese chilli with buckwheat balls Kewa Datse Cheese is a favourite ingredient and in fact ema datse – chillies and cheese “ema” means “chili” and “datse” means “cheese” in the Dzongkha language, is among the most famous dishes in Bhutanese cuisine and is Bhutan’s ubiquitous national dish of green or red chilies, […]

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My souperinspiration: Roasted Vegetable Chilli Cheese Soup Ema datse Running a close second to Bhutan’s primary cliché are chillies. A largely rural society, the Bhutanese eat fresh, fruity, large and not particularly hot red and green chillies in impressive quantities most of the year, and use them dried daily. There is a lively piquancy to […]

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My souperinspiration Miso The protein-rich fermented soybean paste called miso is one of the world’s great flavour foundations adding a savory quality called umami to all sorts of dishes, including soups, salad dressings, vegetables, stews and marinades. According to the The Oxford Companion to Food, miso was first developed in China and the first written […]

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My Souper Inspiration Festivalo Karaimo World (1-1 Gofuku-cho, Kagoshima City (Tenmonkan) Karaimo (“potatoes from China”; “Kara” refers to China, “Imo” is the Japanese word for potatoes) or satsumaimo is Japanese for sweet potato. Hah, the understated vegetable that has been tagged as poor man’s food in Asia. Well, no one would have guessed that this […]

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Flying off to the sunniest capital city in the world has been always a welcoming and nostalgic feeling for us. Never mind that a cyclone was heading our way! I seem to have a penchant for attracting cyclones and typhoons everywhere I go. Having spent a significant number of years in Perth in the past, […]

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You can call our first day at Perth a rather eventful one, but the rain was pretty intense come nighttime. (the cyclone has officially reached Perth). We, at least I could hear the lashings of rain and howling winds as we slept in the campervan. Thankfully, the sky cleared up the next morning. For breakfast, we […]

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Day 4 started out pretty well. With the early night rest, kids woke up on the dot just before 6 AM. They seem to have an internal alarm clock that goes off the same time daily regardless of school holidays or weekends. Pretty amazing, I must say. The amenities here in the tourist park are […]

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