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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Recipes

Easy Whipped Feta Spread for Summer Entertaining

I read a lot of American food blogs, so I’m constantly filing things away in my head to try next winter (or summer) when they become more seasonally appropriate. There are times when the northern and southern hemisphere food connect a little but, as we move into the festive food seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas,…
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Pulses – Beans, Lentils, Recipes

Indian Style Black Bean Dahl Recipe

Like a lot of vegetarian cooks, my pantry shelves are full to bursting with an enormous range of ingredients and, at this stage in my life, I want to bring it all in and consolidate my pantry staples into some kind of semblance of order and usability. When I read a recipe which includes yet…
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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes

Ina Garten’s Chocolate Cake Recipe with Swiss Buttercream

In the month before I started this blog, just over a year ago, I went on a major celebration cake making bender, starting with a friend’s wedding cake, then my niece’s 21st birthday cake, followed by a huge triple-layer welcome home cake for another friend and ending with my son’s ninth birthday cake. During this…
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Breakfast, Indian Food, Recipes, Vegan

Discover Poha: A Unique Gluten-Free Breakfast Option

Breakfast is one of my favorite meals – not the boring weekday muesli or toast breakfast, but those weekend two-cups-of-coffee, corn-cakes, poached-eggs-and-pancakes-you-don’t-need-to-eat-for-the-rest-of-the-day kind of breakfasts. But, as much as I love these lavish cafe brekkies, I have often wondered why cafes have never expanded their offerings with some breakfasts from around the world and are…
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Indian Food, Pulses – Beans, Lentils, Recipes, Side dishes

Authentic Trinidadian Dahl and Homemade Hot Sauce Recipes

I was driving to a yoga class the other day when I heard on the radio the Britain had major flood alerts all over the country and I had the idle thought: Gee some floods would be nice. While I’m not really yearning to be flooded out of my home, if I had to pick…
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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes

Things to bake after a firestorm: Date and walnut rolls

Last Thursday morning, I posted a recipe for a snowpea, almond mint and blood orange salad and I wrote that it was the perfect thing to eat when recovering from the heat of a potentially catastrophic fire day, like the day we experienced on the previous Thursday. When I posted this in the morning it…
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Recipes, Salads, Vegan

Refreshing Snowpea Salad with Mint and Orange

I made this salad on the weekend after Sydney had experienced its second potentially catastrophic fire day this spring. Last Thursday was a day of 40 degree temperatures and searing hot winds. This was followed on the Friday by a spectacular cool change but, on Saturday, the memory of the heat still lingered. I had…
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Recipes, Soups, Vegan

Lentil, Fennel, and Cress Soup Recipe

Soup season is on the wane in Sydney but in between the heat spikes, there is still the opportunity to enjoy a nice bowl of soup. This lentil soup is from my archives, a photocopy – from the 1990s when people actually used to photocopy recipes from books. I remember the friend who passed on…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Pulses – Beans, Lentils, Recipes, Vegan

Quick and Easy Green Hummus

I’ve made a lot of hummus in my time. Now the absolute best hummus is made with freshly-cooked chickpeas and ground when the chickpeas are freshly cooked. It’s even better if you use those tiny, nuggety organic chickpeas which are packed with flavour. I’ve got a couple of recipes for hummus on this site including…
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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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