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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fast Grated Vegetable Stock
View recipe: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fast Grated Vegetable StockThe days are getting cooler and its time to stock up on some stock for soups, risottos and stews. This stock from River Cottage Veg everyday is a good, quick, all round stock. The vegetables are grated so it only needs to simmer for 10 minutes. For those who like to think ahead double the…
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Quick Lacquered Tofu with Green Beans and Cashews Recipe
View recipe: Quick Lacquered Tofu with Green Beans and Cashews RecipeYou can never have too many braised tofu dishes in your repertoire. This one from Deborah Madison is a particularly good one. It’s a wok and rice pot meal that gets dinner done fast in the mid-week lull when all cooking inspiration has disappeared. I like to serve this with brown rice, but I’ve temporarily…
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French Lentil and Onion Soup Recipe
View recipe: French Lentil and Onion Soup RecipeIt’s muggy and wet in Sydney. After the intense record-breaking heat wave of early February we’ve gone into a record-breaking season of rain… so much rain, everyone’s sick of the rain. Australia’s a drought prone continent and with global warming there have been years where I thought it was never going to rain again, so…
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Quick and Easy Nigerian Kidney Bean Stew Recipe
View recipe: Quick and Easy Nigerian Kidney Bean Stew RecipeThe two can bean dinner is a staple of vegetarian home cooking. You can never have too many quick meals up your sleeve using a couple of cans of beans. It’s fast and convenient and if you compare, preparing a meal of beans and rice to ordering and picking up takeaway, the canned beans and…
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Homemade Salted Caramel Chocolate Slice Recipe
View recipe: Homemade Salted Caramel Chocolate Slice RecipeThere is something very homely but elegant about an old fashioned slice. When I was a kid, my mother had about half a dozen slice recipes that were family favourites. In the days when most sweets were homemade, a slice was less labour intensive than biscuits and kept better than cake. Cut into small one…
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Refreshing Lime Cordial Recipe to Beat the Heat
View recipe: Refreshing Lime Cordial Recipe to Beat the HeatSydney has just suffered its worst heatwave since records began – a week of hot and humid weather culminated in three days of 40°+ temperatures across the city (for those not on the celsius scale 40°C is equivalent to 104° fahrenheit). In Penrith, the official temperature peaked at 46.9°C (116.4°F) but in the bitumen heat…
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Light and Delicious Carrot Feta Fritters Recipe
View recipe: Light and Delicious Carrot Feta Fritters RecipeI made these last night to refresh a dinner of left over black beans and rice. They’re good like that fritters, a rejuvenating element that can turn the simplest of meals into something of a party. You can make fritters out of anything but the old carrot fritter seems to be a bit under- represented,…
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Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe: Perfect Summer Afternoon Tea Dessert
View recipe: Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe: Perfect Summer Afternoon Tea DessertI haven’t baked this cake for a couple of years until I baked it in a lull in the heat last week and again this week. Tart with yoghurt, fragrant with lemon zest, this is (if you can bear to turn on the oven) a perfect summer afternoon tea cake. It comes together quite easily…
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Vegan Cashew Hummus: Perfect for Summer
View recipe: Vegan Cashew Hummus: Perfect for SummerWe’re big hummus eaters in our house, up to this date I’ve got three chickpea hummus recipes on this blog, a quick green herb hummus, a labor intensive but super creamy hummus with peeled chickpeas and our latest favorite an Israeli style hummus . I’m not a hummus purist though, my sister makes an awesome…
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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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