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Mark Bittman’s Congee-Inspired Savoury Porridge Recipe
View recipe: Mark Bittman’s Congee-Inspired Savoury Porridge RecipeAlthough I love breakfast food, the breakfast food I love most is that special-occasion-Sunday-brunch kind of food that you just can’t eat on a regular weekday because it’s either too rich or too time consuming to make. As a general rule, I tend to be a savoury unami person and so, a lot of the…
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Vibrant Roasted Cauliflower and Pomegranate Salad
View recipe: Vibrant Roasted Cauliflower and Pomegranate SaladIt’s autumn and pomegranate season in Sydney. I can see quite a few pomegranate trees as I walk round my suburb, with the over-ripe fruit splitting open and dropping to the ground. None of my local trees are conveniently located near the fence, so I haven’t been able to harvest any of my suburb’s bounty…
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Spicy Citrusy Black Beans Recipe for Vegetarian Family Meals
View recipe: Spicy Citrusy Black Beans Recipe for Vegetarian Family MealsIt’s autumn in Sydney and while it’s still hot during the day, there’s a refreshing chill in the air in the mornings and evenings, and the intense humidity and monsoonal rains of March have eased off. I was going to post these black beans last week but when I checked my pantry, I discovered to…
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Delicious Corn Pakoras: A Recipe for Vegan Fritters
View recipe: Delicious Corn Pakoras: A Recipe for Vegan FrittersA few weeks ago, I wanted to use up some corn, so I threw together some pakora batter, lightly spiced it, chopped up some red onion, coriander and corn, and deep fried them… and, it was like, man, crazily delicious! I don’t think I’ve made pakoras for years and it was like re-discovering the best…
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Tips for Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
View recipe: Tips for Perfect Chocolate Chip CookiesI’ve been in a bit of a dilemma about even posting this recipe. I mean, there must a zillion recipes for chocolate chip cookies on the internet, and does the world really need another one? This recipe also originally comes from the back of a Cadbury milk chocolate chip packet, so it’s not like it…
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Luxurious Brown Rice Salad with Caramelised Onion and Currants
View recipe: Luxurious Brown Rice Salad with Caramelised Onion and CurrantsI’ve been making this salad for years ever since I first cut out the recipe from the Sunday Life magazine. It’s a Karen Martini recipe and what I like best about it is the way she treats brown rice, in such a star-studded way. There is nothing faintly hippyish, dour or self-consciously wholesome about this…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Pizza, Bread, Pies, Pasties, Pulses – Beans, Lentils, Recipes, VeganDelicious and Quick Smashed Chickpea Salad Sandwich
View recipe: Delicious and Quick Smashed Chickpea Salad SandwichI love sandwiches. When I was a kid, my family ate a lot of everyday sandwiches but there were also the sandwiches that my mum made for special occasions: platters of delicate sandwich quarters with their crusts removed and filled with ham and mustard, curried egg, chicken, salmon and, one of my favourites – grated…
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Savory Moroccan Eggplant and Tomato Salad Recipe
View recipe: Savory Moroccan Eggplant and Tomato Salad RecipeI love this time of year when you get the occasional day with a hint of autumn but you have the best of the summer bounty to cook and eat. Eggplant and tomatoes always have a taste of summer to me and, combined as one dish, they make an unbeatable combination. This particular eggplant salad…
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Delicious Moroccan Chickpea and Pumpkin Stew with Cous Cous Recipe
View recipe: Delicious Moroccan Chickpea and Pumpkin Stew with Cous Cous RecipeIn the 1990s, Australians first discovered Moroccan food and it became one of the defining foods fads of the decade. Many of my friends purchased couscousieres, which eventually became like the fondue sets of the 1970s – relegated to the backs of cupboards or sold off in garage sales. Moroccan food has come back into its…
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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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