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Refreshing Cucumber Salad: Simple and Versatile
View recipe: Refreshing Cucumber Salad: Simple and VersatileThis simple cucumber salad can be adapted to almost any style of cuisine. It works well as a side in a larger meal or is a refreshing add on as part of a cheese platter or in sandwiches. It’s a salad for when you can’t be bothered to make a salad but need something fresh…
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Vegan Chickpea ‘Tuna’ Salad Recipe
View recipe: Vegan Chickpea ‘Tuna’ Salad Recipe‘Chickpea of the Sea’ is a vegan smashed chickpea ‘tuna’ style salad. I haven’t made it for years, but I’m on the search for things that I can prep and have in the fridge for sandwich and toast toppings. I’d forgotten how surprisingly delicious chickpea ‘tuna’ salad was, I had it for lunch over the…
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Rainbow Quinoa Salad Recipe: Healthy & Delicious
View recipe: Rainbow Quinoa Salad Recipe: Healthy & DeliciousI recently got back from a six week trip to India and as usual when I’m travelling I began to crave crunchy fresh salads. During my trip I spent three weeks in an Auyervedic clinic in Kerala doing a panchakarma detox. At the end of my three weeks I was given a list of a…
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Easy Porcini Risotto Recipe
View recipe: Easy Porcini Risotto RecipeThis recipe for porcini risotto comes from an old newspaper clipping from many years ago. I’ve been slowly going through my old recipe binders and rediscovering old favorites from my files. This risotto is very, very good and like many of my rediscovered recipes I don’t quite understand why it fell from favor. This risotto…
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Classic Swedish Ginger Thins Recipe for Christmas
View recipe: Classic Swedish Ginger Thins Recipe for ChristmasI have a love hate relationship with Christmas in Australia. Pros are that it’s summer and we can go to the beach, eat mangoes and cherrries and have water fights in the back yard after Christmas lunch. Cons are that it’s summer, its humid and hot and we spend far too much time making and…
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Easy Greek Goddess Dip Recipe for Parties
View recipe: Easy Greek Goddess Dip Recipe for PartiesI recently watched the Martha Stewart documentary on Netflix and it made me nostalgic for those bacchanalian feasts of the eighties, whole wheels of brie, baskets of strawberries and tables of beautifully arranged vegetable crudites. The eighties was all about excess even if it was in the form of masses of vegetable crudites. On Sunday…
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Tempeh Recipe: Satisfying Sticky and Spicy
View recipe: Tempeh Recipe: Satisfying Sticky and SpicyI love tempeh. I first discovered this wonder food back the 1980’s when it was not widely available commercially in Australia. I was living in Cairns in far north Queensland and once a week I would ride my bike to a house in the next suburb and buy fresh tofu and tempeh from a retired…
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Homemade Japanese Sesame Dressing Recipe
View recipe: Homemade Japanese Sesame Dressing RecipeYears ago, I used to go regularly to a Japanese restaurant that used to make the best avocado salad with roasted sesame dressing. This was the dish that I used to dream about and crave between visits. Of course, I tried recreating this salad at home with a commercial Kewpie Japanese dressing, but it was…
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Quick and Easy Braised Tofu Rice Bowl Recipe
View recipe: Quick and Easy Braised Tofu Rice Bowl RecipeI love rice bowl dinners. I’m a big believer in the protein and two veg rice bowl for a balanced meal. This braised tofu is as close as I can get to a one pot meal, it has enough vegetables and protein to make a complete and satisfying meal. Best of all it is made…
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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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