Make It Your Own: the sexiest (in my opinion) looking craft book in The World!

I am very excited to report that the lovely Anna Alicia's beautiful craft book, Make it Your Own, is on the shelves! 
Anna is the artist behind eco-ethical homeware and jewellery label A Alicia. Her beautiful creations may be found here http://aalicia.bigcartel.com/
In addition to the 25 projects in the book, Anna also offers tips on using eco-ethical and vintage materials. Anna is committed to being an ethical, sustainable producer with minimal environmental impact. Wherever possible the materials used were ethically produced or vintage/re-purposed. 
For those of you who know me, I am generally not interested in making anything I can not eat, but working on this project has genuinely inspired me to contemplate attempting to make something for my home. Anna feels that, "working with limited materials inspires her to make the most of their possibilities." Hopefully you will feel the same.

Publisher: Hardie Grant UK
http://www.hardiegrant.co.uk/books/make-it-your-own/isbn/9781742705996/anna-alicia 

Cauliflower faux-fried rice

You might think I have lost my mind, but this is delicious and I wanted to share it! I actually like cauliflower fried rice better than the real thing. Yes, it's true.

This recipe can easily be adjusted to fit your taste. You can add more vegetables or spices. The recipe below is vegetarian, but please feel free to add chicken, prawns, Chinese sausage, or your preferred protein to make it a complete meal.

Cauliflower faux-fried rice

1 head cauliflower
1 cup frozen peas
1 cup chopped carrots
1 zucchini chopped
1 capsicum chopped 
4 spring onions chopped
1 chilli chopped (optional)
2 cloves garlic minced
1/3 cup low sodium soy sauce, or tamari.
1/2 tsp sesame oil
2 tbsp vegetable or coconut oil
2 eggs beaten
Coriander
Sesame seeds

Garnish with coriander, sesame seeds, more chilli -- whatever you like.

Directions:
Rice the cauliflower in the food processor or blender on low until it looks like rice. You will have to do this little bits at a time. If you don't have a food processor or blender, a standard cheese grater works perfectly well too. 
In a large frying pan or wok, sauté the spring onion, garlic, chilli, carrots, zucchini, capsicum until cooked in a the oil. Add the peas. Add the cauliflower. Cook for about 8 minutes. Add the eggs, soy and sesame oil. Garnish with sesame seeds and coriander. Add more soy to taste. Serves 6.

The Pepperpot Club

Introducing Jonathan Phang's cookbook, The Pepperpot Club! 

Filled with stories, photos and recipes from his Family and encompassing food from all six races of the Caribbean, the book was a pleasure to work on. JP told me that his Mum had a theory: If you cook food people love to eat, you will gain all you want from life. Amen. Ps. The Jerk Chicken in amazing and all the recipes in the book were photographed by me!