Category: Recipes
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Flavorful Channa Masala Recipe with Canned Chickpeas
This is one of those great vegetarian dishes that can be dressed up or down according to need. Canned chickpeas make this a good store cupboard meal and it’s also simple enough to make as a week night meal. Served with a dollop of yogurt and some rice that’s dinner done. But add – a…
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Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe
About six months ago I became obsessed with Texas chocolate sheet cake and went on a hunt for the perfect recipe. The only problem? Texas sheet cake is baked in a half sheet pan, which is too large for the average Australian oven. I thought about getting a quarter sheet pan and halving the sheet…
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Alison Roman’s crunchy savoury granola
In theory breakfast is my favourite meal of the day. I love breakfast food of all kinds – Israeli, German, Indian, American and the great Australian Cafe brekkie are all good as far as I’m concerned. I was brought up to believe breakfast was the most important meal of the day, but my childhood family…
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Refreshing Peach and Raspberry Cordial Recipe
Last Friday was the first of March and first official day of autumn according to the upside down European calendar of the seasons we use in Australia. For most of us this seasonal demarcation of the seasons from the old world is pretty useless – we still have a fair bit of hot weather to…
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Slow Cooked Spanish Chickpeas Recipe
Canned chickpeas are a staple in the vegetarian store cupboard, not only are incredibly convenient, they are an absolute life saver when you need to make a quick and easy dinner and the cupboard is almost bare. These Spanish chickpeas meet the super easy and simple ingredient criteria but they really benefit from a long,…
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Cool Summer Recipe: Dorie Greenspan’s Spoonable Ricotta for Heatwave Survival
I haven’t posted anything for a long time – first there was Christmas, then summer holidays and going back to work, but mainly I haven’t posted because… the heatwave!! I always complain about the heat this time of year. Sydney in February is always hot, humid and horrible but January was the hottest month on…
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Pistachio & Date Nankatai: A Delicious Indo-British Biscuit Recipe
I love a good Indo-British food mash up. Nankatai are an exotic take on Scottish shortbread popularised by Parsi bakers in the wealthy trading city of Surat in Gujarat. They are yet another example of the rich multi-cultural food influences of the Indian subcontinent. Nankatai are eggless and so suitable for vegetarians which are in…
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Baked Rice with Pomegranate and Olive Salsa Recipe
I’m a late-comer to Ottolenghi fandom, I had the standard complaints about his books; too many exotic ingredients, pedantic and complicated recipes. This all changed when a friend gave me Jerusalem as a birthday present a few years ago. Middle-Eastern food is my thing, suddenly, the exotic ingredients weren’t so exotic and I didn’t have…
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Best brown butter chocolate toffee cookies recipe
] I first read about these cookies about eighteen months ago, via Twitter. The claim was these were the best chocolate chip cookies ever. Something which, given how obsessed the internet is with chocolate chip cookies, seemed like a pretty big claim to make. Unfortunately, the recipe required a chocolate toffee bar such as Daim,…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 