Category: Recipes
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Easy Spiced Chickpea and Carrot Salad Recipe
Canned chickpeas are an essential part of the average vegetarian kitchen store cupboard. Of course, in an ideal world, you soak and cook your chickpeas from scratch but we don’t live in an ideal world and nothing beats the convenience of being able to open a can of chickpeas and make a quick meal. The…
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Easy Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Buttermilk and Creamy Brown Sugar Icing
Last Thursday night, I had to make a quick batch of chocolate cupcakes for a cake stall at my son’s school on Friday morning. After a swimming lesson and a trip to the shops, it was past six o’clock before we got home and I started dinner. My son had requested chocolate cupcakes so I…
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Perfect Finger Food: Authentic Maltese Pastizzis for Parties
I always think of pastizzi as being a particularly Sydney food phenomenon. This may be because what is now known as The Original Maltese Cafe in Darlinghurst has been making pastizzis in Sydney since 1952. The cafe has expanded in size and number of locations over the years but they still make a mean pastizzi.…
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Wholesome Brown Sugar Oat Biscuits Recipe
Just over a week ago, a friend had her baby four weeks early, which threw everyone around her into a bit of a spin: nobody was prepared for such an early arrival. For my first official visit to see the baby at home, I rushed out and bought a present, dragged a loaf of banana…
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Irresistible Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
I’ve been making this cake for years now, ever since I first saw it on the world’s most famous food blog, Smitten Kitchen, in 2006. It is Deb Perelman’s mother’s recipe and Deb claims it may be one of the main reasons her husband married her. This, I can believe, because this cake is worth…
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Festive and Flavorful – Vegan Spanish Rice with Tomato and Paprika
There is something so festive about Spanish rice that it turns the most ordinary meal of beans and rice into an instant fiesta or party. This recipe comes comes via the recipe site SImply Recipes, which is my ‘go to’ source for Tex-Mex food. The secret to a good Spanish rice is to saute the…
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Simple French Chocolate Loaf Cake Recipe
I’m kind of obsessed with loaf cakes at the moment. They have a nice homey, everyday quality that says it doesn’t have to be a special occasion for you to still eat cake. Because, there are times (like in the middle of winter) when it’s almost necessary for your mental health to eat cake. If…
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Old Fashioned Anglo-Australian Veggie Curry Recipe from The Cook’s Companion
I’ve been thinking about posting this recipe for veggie curry for months now and I always decided against it because, to be honest, it is actually a bit daggy. But then I thought, well, this blog is all about food I actually cook and eat and, at the right time and place, there’s nothing better…
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Heartwarming Vegan Swedish Yellow Split Pea Soup Recipe
Sometimes, it’s hard to get up the enthusiasm to write much about a recipe, not because I don’t love it, but I feel like enthusing too much about something as humble and simple as this split pea soup, is kind of ridiculous. What more can I really say about it except that it’s my new…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 