Category: Side dishes
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Pomegranate Molasses Roasted Pumpkin Recipe with Nigella Seeds
Ever since I was a kid, roasted pumpkin has been one of my favorite foods. I come from a family of six siblings, so when my mum made a roast dinner, there never seemed to be enough roast pumpkin to satisfy me. Along with the other roasted veggies, we were allocated only one piece of…
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Winter Salad Recipe: Spiced Sweet Potato, Puy Lentil, Rocket & Honey Walnuts
This is a wonderful winter salad with its warming spices, and the honey-roasted walnuts are stupendously good. Make a double batch of the walnuts, because they are good to snack on: throw into other salads or as a spicy sweet topping on yoghurt and fruit for breakfast. I made this salad on the weekend for…
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Fire Roasted Tomato and Mint Salsa Recipe
We’ve just got back from a week-long beach holiday and one of the great things about Forster, the town we were holidaying in, was it had a great fruit and vegetable shop – The Farmer’s Patch, which sources most of its fruit and vegetables locally. You can always spot the urbanised city foodies because we…
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Fluffy Cuban Mojo Sauce Recipe for Grilled Asparagus
Asparagus is particularly good at the moment with nice juicy, fat stems that are perfect for grilling. For years, I blanched asparagus and then refreshed them in iced water before dressing them, but last year, I discovered the joy of just baking, sauteeing or throwing them on the barbie, which makes fresh asparagus a snap…
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Vibrant Roasted Cauliflower and Pomegranate Salad
It’s autumn and pomegranate season in Sydney. I can see quite a few pomegranate trees as I walk round my suburb, with the over-ripe fruit splitting open and dropping to the ground. None of my local trees are conveniently located near the fence, so I haven’t been able to harvest any of my suburb’s bounty…
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Refreshing Recipes for Extreme Heat: Labneh Dip and Watermelon Salad
I realise talking about the heat wave is so ‘four days ago’ but when the heat was on, all anybody could talk about was the weather, how hot it was, how hot it was going to get and, most importantly, what the overnight low was going to be. When the heat is unrelenting even during…
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Delicious Southern Corn Cakes Recipe with Fresh Salsa and Whipped Feta
I seem to spend a fair amount of time on this blog whinging about the weather and, in particular, the heat. In the build up to Christmas in Australia, along with the stress of buying presents and the preparing and over consumption of massive amounts of food, comes with an added bonus of extreme heat…
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Greek Fasolakia: Slow Braised Green Bean Stew Delight
This is one of those magical dishes: so simple, with a nice short ingredient list which transforms a pile of green beans into something quite different and deliciously more than the some of its parts. The green beans are braised ever so slowly, so that they become oozily tender but not mushy. There is something…
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Authentic Trinidadian Dahl and Homemade Hot Sauce Recipes
I was driving to a yoga class the other day when I heard on the radio the Britain had major flood alerts all over the country and I had the idle thought: Gee some floods would be nice. While I’m not really yearning to be flooded out of my home, if I had to pick…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 