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Sydney Summer Treat: Mango Sago with Coconut Cream Recipe
View recipe: Sydney Summer Treat: Mango Sago with Coconut Cream RecipeFebruary is strange month in Sydney – everybody is back at school and work after the summer holidays but it is a month that is often hotter and more humid than January. There’s a sense of lingering resentment amongst people, the holidays are over but it’s still too hot to fully adjust back to the…
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Delicious Baked Peach and Strawberry Crumble
View recipe: Delicious Baked Peach and Strawberry CrumbleRecently, my friend Alice posted a recipe for a stone fruit skillet streusel pie, which looked so awesome that for the last few days, all I’ve been dreaming about is making that pie. I mean it’s an absolute winner, with a mix of stone fruit, a cornmeal pastry pie crust with a crumble topping –…
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Healing Rice Broth: How to Make Vegetarian Congee for Illness
View recipe: Healing Rice Broth: How to Make Vegetarian Congee for IllnessI spent almost the entire Australia day long weekend in bed with some kind of undiagnosed ’flu/virus/headache ailment. Although I did manage to get up and watch the first set of the men’s final of the Australian Open on Sunday night before collapsing back into bed, I spent the weekend with that sense of boredom…
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Refreshing Recipes for Extreme Heat: Labneh Dip and Watermelon Salad
View recipe: Refreshing Recipes for Extreme Heat: Labneh Dip and Watermelon SaladI realise talking about the heat wave is so ‘four days ago’ but when the heat was on, all anybody could talk about was the weather, how hot it was, how hot it was going to get and, most importantly, what the overnight low was going to be. When the heat is unrelenting even during…
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Old-Fashioned Pancakes with Lemon and Sugar: A Summer Breakfast Delight
View recipe: Old-Fashioned Pancakes with Lemon and Sugar: A Summer Breakfast DelightWhen I was a kid, these simple crepes served with lemon and sugar were the only pancakes I knew until, when I was about ten, we hosted a Canadian exchange student who introduced our family to the joys of real maple syrup and the American-style pancakes, or ‘flap jacks’, as we called them back then.…
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Vegetarian banh mi with marinated sesame tofu
View recipe: Vegetarian banh mi with marinated sesame tofuIt’s been like running a marathon this Christmas and New Year – cooking, eating, cooking and eating again. Then, with the spike in heat and humidity in Sydney lately, it’s hard to get the enthusiasm to cook or eat anything. With the weather like this, you really appreciate the genius of Vietnamese food, which is…
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Delicious Southern Corn Cakes Recipe with Fresh Salsa and Whipped Feta
View recipe: Delicious Southern Corn Cakes Recipe with Fresh Salsa and Whipped FetaI seem to spend a fair amount of time on this blog whinging about the weather and, in particular, the heat. In the build up to Christmas in Australia, along with the stress of buying presents and the preparing and over consumption of massive amounts of food, comes with an added bonus of extreme heat…
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Greek Fasolakia: Slow Braised Green Bean Stew Delight
View recipe: Greek Fasolakia: Slow Braised Green Bean Stew DelightThis is one of those magical dishes: so simple, with a nice short ingredient list which transforms a pile of green beans into something quite different and deliciously more than the some of its parts. The green beans are braised ever so slowly, so that they become oozily tender but not mushy. There is something…
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Simple Peruvian Lentils and Rice Recipe with Red Onion Salad
View recipe: Simple Peruvian Lentils and Rice Recipe with Red Onion SaladThere are times when the sheer weight of all the available food options becomes overwhelming. Last week, I was sick and went on a bit of congee and brown rice bender in order to regain a sense of balance. Then I made this simple lentils and rice with red onion salad and ate it three…
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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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