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Eggs, Pizza, Bread, Pies, Pasties, Recipes

Easy Sheet Pan Spinach Quiche Recipe for Picnics and Parties

I’ve made this a sheet pan quiche a bit over the last few weeks, it’s great for picnics at the beach, potluck luncheons or cut into small slices for party finger food. It’s dense with spinach so you feel like your getting a decent quota of greens, and because I use both frozen spinach and…
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Recipes, Salads

Ottolenghi’s Sweetcorn Slaw Recipe | Festive Summer Salad

We’ve just has our first heatwave of the summer, which has re-focused my mind on heatwave food, and some of the best hot weather food around is the humble coleslaw. I love a good slaw. My initiation into the world of food blogs came about when I was searching for a coleslaw recipe online and…
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Summer Stone Fruit Crumble for Breakfast

I’m very flighty and changeable with my choice of breakfast foods. I was brought up believing breakfast was the most important meal of the day and one should always break your fast with something decent and sustaining for the day. However, the most enduring memories I have of my childhood breakfasts are of some kind…
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Recipes, Rice bowl meals

Celebrate Summer with Easy Nasi Lemak Recipes

It’s starting to heat up in Sydney, we’re eating later and with the rising humidity it becomes increasingly difficult to decide what to eat let alone what to cook. When the heat is on, it’s time to go back to grain bowl basics. I’m not a huge fan of Malaysian food, but I love their…
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Recipes, Side dishes, Vegan

Authentic TexMex Carrot Sofrito: Josef Centano’s Recipe

When the world is in turmoil, it’s good to go back to the comfort basics and, for a lot of Australian families, taco night has become something of an institution. Australia has a tiny Mexican population but we still love our taco nights, even if our version of tacos is less than authentic, simply because…
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Black Bean and Roasted Pumpkin Salad with Jalapeno Cream

This salad is from one of my favourite cookbooks Community and features two of my favourite foods black beans and roasted pumpkin, add some barbecued corn and it’s a win, win, win recipe. Plus sour cream is a VERY underrated condiment. It’s hearty enough to make it a meal on it’s own but if you…
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Recipes, Vegan

Creamy Vegan Chickpea and Coconut Korma Curry Recipe

There’s nothing traditional about this take on korma. The meat and the yogurt have been replaced with chickpeas and coconut milk but it still makes a deliciously mild and creamy curry. I first made this curry when I was visiting my brother and his kids in the country. It’s super easy with an accessible ingredient…
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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes

Jill Dupleix’s Upside-down Fruit Cake Recipe

I used to make this cake a lot years ago during the nineties. It’s from Jill Dupleix’s New Food which looks old and dated design-wise now but is filled with stonking good recipes which have stood the test of time. I think I made this cake for an afternoon tea on the day we heard…
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Indian Food, Recipes, Side dishes

Delicious Indian Creamed Spinach Recipe

I love creamed spinach. I have fond memories of going to Cafe Scheherahzade in Melbourne during the eighties and feasting on their latkes and creamed spinach. Tragically Cafe Scherherazade closed its doors eight years ago so their creamed spinach now exists only as a memory. During the winter, I had a sudden craving for some…
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Elizabeth Mars

About the Author

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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