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Meera Sodha’s Fresh India Beetroot Raita Recipe
View recipe: Meera Sodha’s Fresh India Beetroot Raita RecipeBeetroot is one of my favorite vegetables so it’s kind of surprising I don’t have that I don’t have that many recipes for beetroot on this blog. I’ve just come back from a week away and I ate two outstanding beetroot dishes in my travels. A beetroot risotto from my favourite cafe in Wagga Wagga,…
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Homemade Pomegranate Syrup Recipe – Easy and Versatile
View recipe: Homemade Pomegranate Syrup Recipe – Easy and VersatileI’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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Versatile Bihari Spinach: Breakfast Side Dish for Pooris and More
View recipe: Versatile Bihari Spinach: Breakfast Side Dish for Pooris and MoreI’ve made this spinach for many years it comes from one of my oldest, faded and food splattered cookbooks – Madhur Jaffrey’s, Eastern Vegetarian Cooking. In the days when I could get cold-pressed Yandilla mustard oil from my local supermarket I used to use mustard oil. But Yandilla mustard oil is much less widely available…
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Delicious Saffron Fruit Loaf: A Must-Try Easter Recipe
View recipe: Delicious Saffron Fruit Loaf: A Must-Try Easter RecipeI had big plans for these Easter holidays on the baking front but a combination of , sickness, an early Easter and unseasonably hot weather meant I conked out after baking a batch of Greek Easter biscuits and this fruit loaf. I baked my Easter biscuits on Thursday night while I binged watched Chef’s Table…
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Quick Vegetarian Chickpea Ketchup Curry Recipe
View recipe: Quick Vegetarian Chickpea Ketchup Curry RecipeThis is another emergency store cupboard meal for when you’re staring down starvation and you need to crack open the super quick, vegetarian meals file. This is for the nights when you’re absolutely knackered, you do absolutely not want to go to the shops and you need to eat before nine or ten o’clock at…
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Sally Wise’s Plum Worcestershire Sauce Recipe
View recipe: Sally Wise’s Plum Worcestershire Sauce RecipeThis 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
View recipe: Parsi Peach Chutney Recipe for Preserving Summer BountyFebruary 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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Easy Onion Pilaf Recipe for Cuban, Indian, Mexican, and Middle-Eastern Cuisine
View recipe: Easy Onion Pilaf Recipe for Cuban, Indian, Mexican, and Middle-Eastern CuisineThis is my son’s favorite rice and the rice I always serve with black beans, it goes perfectly with Cuban black beans but it mixes and matches with Indian, Mexican, Middle-Eastern – take your choice. It also makes an excellent emergency store cupboard meal, when you have no idea what to cook – add…
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Tasty Za’artar Biscuits with Cheddar and Parmesan Recipe
View recipe: Tasty Za’artar Biscuits with Cheddar and Parmesan RecipeIt’s hard to go wrong with cheese biscuits, they are invariably, insanely, delicious. But how could you go wrong, cheese biscuits are pretty much baked cheese with a bit of butter and a flour thrown in to hold it all together. These cheese biscuits also have the exotic twist of za’artar and sumac sprinkled on…
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My name is Elizabeth Mars and I live in Sydney’s inner west with my partner and twenty- year-old son.
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