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The Easiest Apple Cake Recipe You’ll Love
View recipe: The Easiest Apple Cake Recipe You’ll LoveI’m not a huge apple cake fan, I find the whole idea of apple cake a little humdrum. When someone tells me they’ve made an apple cake my heart doesn’t automatically leap, I mean there’s a limit to how amazing an apple cake can be… right? That was what I thought until I tried this…
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Homemade White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Dough Recipe
View recipe: Homemade White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Dough RecipeYesterday, we got a new fridge. Yay! There’s nothing like a brand spanking new refrigerator to lift your mood. Our old fridge was over 16 years old and was mouldy and skanky beyond belief. In my forced fridge clean out, I came across a bag of white chocolate pastels that had been languishing in the…
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Easy Roasted Cauliflower with Punjabi Spices
View recipe: Easy Roasted Cauliflower with Punjabi SpicesWhen I was in my twenties, one of my standard dinner party side dishes was fried cauliflower with a Turkish garlic and yoghurt sauce. It was a recipe from one my cooking bibles Tess Mallos’s The Complete Middle East Cookbook and it was always a big hit, but how can you go wrong with fried…
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Simple Spiced Spinach Dahl with Cumin Seeds
View recipe: Simple Spiced Spinach Dahl with Cumin SeedsWhen I first moved to Sydney about 15 years ago, there was a hole in the wall Indian eatery up at my local shops. I’m calling it an an eatery because it wasn’t as grand as a cafe or restaurant, just a un-renovated shop with a few tables and chairs, offering a small selection of…
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Velvety Orange, Yoghurt, and Cardamom Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
View recipe: Velvety Orange, Yoghurt, and Cardamom Cake with Cream Cheese IcingThis would have to be one of the easiest cakes in the world to make. It’s simple enough to whip up for an afternoon tea but spectacular enough to shape shift into a celebration cake. The lightly sweetened cream cheese icing and chopped pistachios give a slight, savoury contrast to the sweetness of the cake. This…
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Marcella Hazan’s Essential Tomato Sauce Recipe
View recipe: Marcella Hazan’s Essential Tomato Sauce RecipeThis tomato sauce with onion and butter is from Marcella Hazan is astonishingly simple and delicious. It’s been posted a million times on various food blogs and raved about countless times, but that’s no reason not to do so again. I’ve made this sauce many times over the years, it reminds me of the spaghetti…
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Classic Vegetarian Split Pea Soup Recipe
View recipe: Classic Vegetarian Split Pea Soup RecipeThis is my family’s favorite split pea soup, it’s an old-fashioned vegetarian classic from the Moosewood Cookbook. There’s nothing fancy about it. Hearty, thick and filling – served with some good bread it’s all you need to make a meal. Start early because the split peas take a few hours simmering on the back burner.…
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Easy Refried Black Beans Recipe for Tacos
View recipe: Easy Refried Black Beans Recipe for TacosWe eat a lot of refried beans at our house. Tacos or burritos are one of the most kid friendly vegetarian meals going. A taco spread is an instant party and like all good party food it has the added advantage of allowing kids to build their own meal. I’ve seen children make a taco…
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Nostalgic Pearl Barley Broth Recipe
View recipe: Nostalgic Pearl Barley Broth RecipeThis soup reminds me of my grandmother, it is like something she would have made, although she would have used a beef or lamb stock. I’m a much more slap dash cook than my grandma, who was very careful in the way chopped her vegetables and put food together. That was always the essence of…
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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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