Category: Recipes
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Savory Quinoa and Cottage Cheese Cakes with Spring Onions
Despite dark childhood memories of earnestly healthy but tasteless sprout and cottage cheese sandwiches, I’m having a bit of a ‘born again’ appreciation of cottage cheese at the moment, and not just for its retro nostalgic ‘meaty’ qualities, such in these vegetarian sausage rolls. I was brought back into the cottage cheese fold by these…
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Ultimate Slow Cooked Chickpeas by Ottolenghi
I use canned chickpeas a lot, for their ease and convenience, and they are perfectly fine and good, but something happens when you take the extra trouble to soak and cook your own chickpeas that turns this humble store cupboard staple into something extraordinary. These slow cooked chickpeas from Yotam Ottolenghi’s latest book Plenty More…
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Paula Wolfert’s Creamy Vegan Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus over the years. When I’m in a rush, I use canned chickpeas, throw them in the processor and in five minutes, I have a pretty decent hummus that is miles ahead of any of the tubs of supermarket hummus you can buy. But, if you want to make a…
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Slow roasted cherry tomato sauce
It’s been incredibly hot and humid in Sydney all through January, but then we had a cool, rainy spell and on Saturday, it was one of those impeccably beautiful late summer days that serve to remind you that despite all the whinging and moaning about the heat and humidity, there are days like this when…
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Delicious Graham Crackers: Homemade Recipe with Nutty Flavour
It is Australia Day and I suppose I should post something kind of typically Australian, but as a national day of celebration, I have my problems with Australia Day. When I was a kid, I can’t remember Australia Day being that big a deal: there was a holiday, but all the rah-rah drunken bogans wrapped…
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Best Simple Pancake Recipe for Holiday Breakfast
I’ve been meaning to post this recipe for a while but have procrastinated because, seriously, do we really need another pancake recipe out there on the internet? I can’t even pretend this is the ultimate pancake recipe, but it is the simplest pancake recipe I know: the sort of recipe you can whip up in…
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Turkish-Style Carrot Labneh Recipe for Summer Delights
Back from our holiday in Perth and I’m thankful that we missed, by one day, their hottest day on record. Sydney has also missed the intense heatwaves of the southern states, but it’s summer and in this new extra warm world our time, for the great big heat, will come. Even without heatwave temperatures Sydney…
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Chinese stir-fried omelette with spring onions, carrots and bean sprouts
I know that in the final countdown to Christmas, I should be posting more festive food – ideas for vegetarian Christmases and all that kind of stuff but we are flying across the country to Perth on Christmas day (just in time for lunch), so apart from baking up a storm of cookies, I’m really…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 