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Comforting Polenta Scones with Vegetable Cobbler
View recipe: Comforting Polenta Scones with Vegetable CobblerIt’s turned cold again in Sydney, so it’s the perfect time and the best weather conditions to indulge in a bit of old-fashioned vegetarian comfort food like this vegetable cobbler. It’s gorgeously rich and warming but not the sort of food I make or eat that often, so I had to forage around the back…
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Hearty Winter Minestrone with Creamy Chickpeas
View recipe: Hearty Winter Minestrone with Creamy ChickpeasSydney has very short winters. Really, there are only about six to eight weeks of the year when it is really, really cold. This year, winter was slow to start, we had a long hot, hot summer which lingered well into early May, so it now seems like winter has barely begun and it already…
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Homemade Swedish Ginger Thins Recipe
View recipe: Homemade Swedish Ginger Thins RecipeA few weeks ago, I came across a post from The Kitchn about the Scandanavian tradition of serving thin gingersnap biscuits with blue cheese as an appetiser. As I have a passion for both gingersnaps and blue cheese, this seemed like an irresistibly delicious idea. I could have just gone to the supermarket and bought…
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Perfect Fluffy Lemon Infused Quinoa Recipe with Corn and Mint
View recipe: Perfect Fluffy Lemon Infused Quinoa Recipe with Corn and MintThe quinoa boat had well and truly sailed by the time I got on board and started to cook and eat it regularly. In the nineties when quinoa first became available in Australia, I tried cooking it and it was just awful – bitter and slimy – it was nothing I wanted to try again.…
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Homemade Vegetarian Boston Baked Beans Recipe
View recipe: Homemade Vegetarian Boston Baked Beans RecipeI always keep my pantry well stocked with tins of Heinz baked beans. I’ve eaten them since I was a child and now my son eats them as well – it’s one of the few things he likes to ‘cook’ for himself. I know it’s not really cooking but he gives him a nice sense…
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Vegan Mapo Tofu Recipe
View recipe: Vegan Mapo Tofu RecipeThere’s nothing worse for a vegetarian to be in a Chinese restaurant and see a luscious platter of mapo tofu being taken to another table and then when you try and order it, you’re told it isn’t actually a vegetarian dish. All that glorious tofu and they have to ruin it by throwing in a…
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Alice’s Pear, Pistachio and Chocolate Cake Recipe | Simple and Delicious
View recipe: Alice’s Pear, Pistachio and Chocolate Cake Recipe | Simple and DeliciousMy friend Alice bakes the best cakes. This pear, pistachio and chocolate cake was one of the first cakes she baked for me when we became friends. I remember when I first tasted it and I paused for a long moment in stunned silence before blurting out something along the lines of… THIS CAKE… is……
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Julie Sahni’s Bihari Green Bean Masala Recipe | Vegan Feast Party Ideas
View recipe: Julie Sahni’s Bihari Green Bean Masala Recipe | Vegan Feast Party IdeasEven though I’ve been eating and cooking vegetarian food for decades, I still feel an uncomfortable twinge of anxiety when I’m having a vegan for dinner. Cooking a simple vegan meal is not a problem but when it comes to creating a lavish dinner party spread of food without resorting to any eggs or diary…
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Filipino Mongo Recipe with Mung Beans and Spinach
View recipe: Madhur Jaffrey’s Filipino Mongo Recipe with Mung Beans and SpinachToday is Food Revolution Day, a global forum initiated by Jamie Oliver to celebrate the cooking and sharing of food. Food and cooking are some of the most fundamental ways we have of sharing and connecting as humans and it’s vital we pass this knowledge on to our children and the future generations. My contribution…
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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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