Category: Recipes
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Garlicky Beet Spread Recipe for Festive Snacking
This garlicky beet spread from Melissa Clark makes a wonderful side for latkes and all kinds of fritters. I particularly like it paired with these Turkish Swiss Chard Fritters from Ottolenghi, but it is also very good served with some warmed pita bread and vegetable crudites as a light appetizer and snack. If you’re not…
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Easy Korean Braised Tofu Recipe
I have a lot of braised tofu dishes on this site because, braised tofu is one of my standard dinners when I can’t think of what else to make. I go through various phases of which style of braised tofu I make but at the moment my go to tofu for a mid-week rice bowl…
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Vegetable Ragu: A Frugal Italian Delight
This vegetable ragu is known as fake sauce (sugo finto) and is a great example of cuisina povera or the frugal food of Italy. In this vegetarian ragu sauce, meat is replaced with vegetables. The flavor is layered into the sauce with a slow cooked soffritto of onions, carrots and celery, which is deglazed with…
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Easy Biber Salçası Recipe: Homemade Turkish Pepper Paste
Biber Salçası (Turkish red pepper paste) is widely used in Turkish cooking in much the same way you would use tomato paste. Traditionally the peppers are sun dried before being ground into a paste. This simplified, homemade version of biber salçası comes from Ozlem Warren’s brilliant new cookbook Sebze. Red bell peppers are slowly simmered…
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Easy Asian Smashed Cucumber Salad with Garlic
I first fell in love with this smashed cucumber salad at ShanDong MaMa an eatery in Melbourne, famous for its dumplings and home-style, Northern Chinese cuisine. The first time I ate this salad I went home and googled recipes for smashed cucumber salad, because I absolutely had to recreate it at home. There were a…
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Korean Rice Bowls: Mung Bean Sprout Salad Recipe
Continuing with my love of Korean side dishes or banchan, is this simple mung bean sprout side. Apart from being an essential part of the Korean rice bowl – Bimbimbap, this recipe uses an entire packet of bean sprouts, so it solves the problem of having half a pack of bean sprouts rotting away in…
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Vegetarian Black Bean Chilli Recipe – Easy and Kid-Friendly
This recipe comes from Smitten Kitchen where it started its life a filling for vegetarian burritos and then morphed into a black bean and vegetable bake with a layer of cheese grilled on top. I prefer to serve it as a chilli bowl with loads of toppings and corn chips on the side. I first…
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Easy Banchan Recipe for Irresistible Korean Braised Potatoes
My favorite thing about eating out at Korean restaurants is all the little side dishes or banchan that come out before the meal, that often make the main meal slightly redundant. My absolute favorite banchan is gamja jorim. Sweet, salty, crispy potatoes – How can you go wrong? The thing was, I never felt I…
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Vegetarian Bolognese: Lentil Ragu Recipe You’ll Love
In general I’m not a fan of vegetarian bolognese style pasta sauces. There are so many fantastic authentically vegetarian pasta sauces… why would you bother? However, Sydney was in the midst of a dreary midwinter slump, it was gloomy and cold outside and this slow cooked lentil ragu seemed like just thing to banish the…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 