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Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Easy Pizza Dough Recipe

For years, my ‘go to’ pizza dough recipes has been Jamie Oliver’s pizza dough recipe. This fail-proof recipe has given me a reputation amongst my son’s friends that these are pizzas that are to die for. The actual verbatim comment was “pizzas worth killing for”. The only problem with this pizza dough is that it…
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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes

Quick and Easy Jam Tart Recipe for Pantry Clean-Out

I like jam but … I don’t really love it, so we always seem to have half-eaten jars of jam in the fridge hanging around for months, and unopened jars in the pantry lurking around for a few years. This tart uses up quite a bit of jam so it’s a good thing to have…
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Eggless Indian Savory Shortbread Recipe: Khara Biscuits for Tea Time

I love dunking biscuits in tea but I get a bit sick of sweet biscuits, so these Indian khara biscuits are perfect for a savoury dunking experience. Indian vegetarians don’t eat eggs – their baked goods tend to be ‘eggless’ but not vegan, as dairy is used. Some Indian cooks use vegetable shortening in these…
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Vegetarian Miso Aubergine Soba Noodle Salad from Hetty McKinnon

I don’t buy many cookbooks – those that I do buy tend to specialise in a particular regional cuisine I’m interested in. I just don’t have the space to acquire that many more cookbooks, even though I still love reading cookbooks. I usually just borrow from the library and keep them on a rotating loan…
View recipe: Vegetarian Miso Aubergine Soba Noodle Salad from Hetty McKinnon
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Delicious Vegetarian Party Sausage Rolls Recipe

These are absolutely fantastic party fare, and always a big hit with both vegetarians and meat eaters (sorry vegans, but these do include dairy and eggs). Vegetarians particularly rejoice when you serve these up at your parties, especially those who grew up with party pies and sausage rolls as the ultimate party food. These sausage…
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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes, Vegan

Vegan Moustakouloura: Ancient Greek Grape-Must Cookies Recipe

I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the Greeks make the best cookies in the world. If you want to call them by their Greek names, they are real tongue twisters and difficult to pronounce, but they are simply the best. If you are a ‘dunker’ (as all our family are), they are great for…
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Recipes, Soups, Vegan

Karen Martini’s Spring Time Minestrone Primavera

Late October and early November in Sydney, the weather is changeable but in the past few years, the weather shifts have been more extreme. Last week, we went from fiercely hot, bush fire days with the air filled with smell of ash in the air, to super storms and snow in the mountains, and the…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Side dishes, Vegan

Fire Roasted Tomato and Mint Salsa Recipe

We’ve just got back from a week-long beach holiday and one of the great things about Forster, the town we were holidaying in, was it had a great fruit and vegetable shop – The Farmer’s Patch, which sources most of its fruit and vegetables locally. You can always spot the urbanised city foodies because we…
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Recipes, Side dishes, Vegan

Fluffy Cuban Mojo Sauce Recipe for Grilled Asparagus

Asparagus is particularly good at the moment with nice juicy, fat stems that are perfect for grilling. For years, I blanched asparagus and then refreshed them in iced water before dressing them, but last year, I discovered the joy of just baking, sauteeing or throwing them on the barbie, which makes fresh asparagus a snap…
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Elizabeth Mars

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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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