Category: Preserves, Condiments, Sauces
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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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Cooking in a Pandemic – Roasted apple sauce
What a year this has been. My sister past away in August last year so I thought that was going to be the defining event for the year. For months there was the bone crushing fatigue of grief, from September on I kept chanting to myself if I can just get through to the Christmas…
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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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Discover the Delight of Miso Butter: A Simple Recipe for a Culinary Game Changer
About six months ago, I went with friends to the vegetarian restaurant Yellow for dinner. I’m not really one for fancy restaurants, particularly ones that you have to book months in advance (who can think that far ahead) and then also give up your credit card details so if you don’t show up you get…
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Homemade Pomegranate Syrup Recipe – Easy and Versatile
I’ve been obsessed with making my own pomegranate syrup ever since I saw this recipe in the Cornersmith cookbook a few years back. This year, I promised myself, was going to be the year of preserves and I was finally going to get it together to make my own pomegranate syrup. The thing about this…
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Sally Wise’s Plum Worcestershire Sauce Recipe
This fabulous Plum Worcestershire sauce from the queen of preserves Sally Wise, comes via my Tasmanian sister-in-law, who makes it regularly using the small red cherry plums that grow rampantly in the backyards of Hobart. I made this sauce two years ago using cherry plums from a friend’s tree in Bathurst but this year, all…
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Parsi Peach Chutney Recipe for Preserving Summer Bounty
February is the month for preserving the summer bounty in Australia, unfortunately in Sydney this is also a month of hellish heat and humidity, the making and bottling of chutneys, jams and sauces is always a sweat drenched affair. At the end of last week we had a brief respite from the heat and I…
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Vietnamese Pickled Carrot Recipe for Banh Mi and More
When I was a kid, before I started school, my mum would take me into town for the big weekly grocery shop. We lived on a farm and the weekly shop was a big event. My mum and I would dress up in our Sunday best and for lunch we would get take away cheese…
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Jane’s Spicy Tomato Sauce Recipe | Homemade Preserves
This recipe for spicy tomato sauce comes from my Tasmanian sister-in-law Jane. Like a lot Tasmanians, Jane is a stand out jam maker and preserver of seasonal bounty. We had a family Christmas in Tasmania a couple of years ago and this spicy tomato sauce and Sally Wise’s awesome plum Worcestershire sauce were the biggest…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 