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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Pancakes, Fritters, Dumplins, Pulses – Beans, Lentils, Recipes

Broad Bean and Chickpea Fritters with Fragrant Green Tahini

It’s broad bean season and I never feel I do fresh broad beans justice but I’m trying to change that this year. If you get over the hassle of the double peeling they are a fantastic celebration of spring. This broad bean and chickpea fritters are similar to falafel but they don’t require all the…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Preserves, Condiments, Sauces, Recipes

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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Recipes, Vegan

Wholesome Kimchi Fried Rice with Gochujang

Korean food is having its moment in the sun. I was in Woolworths the other day and I even saw the hot pepper paste gochujang on the shelves, when something hits the shelves of your local supermarket you really know its gone mainstream. I’m fortunate enough to have a good Korean mini-mart nearby so I’ve…
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Breakfast, Eggs, Recipes

Australian Big Brekkie: Green Eggs Recipe for Sunday Surfing Delight

Australians love their big cafe breakfast, in fact I’m going to go out on a food ethnography limb and say we invented the modern cafe breakfast. As a nation we don’t have that many claims to culinary glory but the big Sunday surfers’ brekkie washed down with loads of coffee or lashings of tea is…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Recipes

Spectacular Mashed Beetroot with Yogurt & Za’artar Recipe

When I was a kid you judged a good party by the eye popping colour of its food offerings. Any decent party spread was a riot of colour – pink and green lamingtons, fire engine red frankfurter sausages, fairy bread, jellied orange quarters, green and red pickled onions, bowls of garish lollies and iced fairy…
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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes

Sunset’s Whole Orange Cake Adapted Recipe

I made this cake a few times towards the end of the summer when oranges were not that great but it was still cake that stood out in the crowd even with sub-optimal oranges. This is a whole orange cake, where the oranges are chopped and chucked pith and all into a food processor, whizzed…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Pizza, Bread, Pies, Pasties, Recipes

Best Sydney picnic – Ricotta, kale and walnut pesto sandwich recipe

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with my home city of Sydney. In the hate camp, is the fact, that the city is overpriced, congested, mindlessly pro-developer and money obsessed. On the love side, parts of it are just so heart meltingly beautiful you forget about all the bad stuff. Sydney is…
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Recipes, Side dishes, Vegan

A very simple Russian beetroot side

I look forward to the World Cup every four years, but it’s a month of very little sleep because the viewing schedule for Australian football fans is grueling, with late nights and early morning wake ups. The last weekend was disastrous because I was sick with a bad cough and cold and I was wondering…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Recipes, Vegan

Ottolenghi’s Easy Party Olive Oil Crackers

When ever I make my own crackers I realise how rubbish even the expensive high quality commercial crackers are. Nothing you can buy compares to home-made ones. I love making Swedish seed crackers but these olive oil crackers are super simple, a three ingredient cracker that you can bring together with minimal fuss. I made a…
View recipe: Ottolenghi’s Easy Party Olive Oil Crackers