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Moosewood New Classics Green Olive and Artichoke Tapenade
View recipe: Moosewood New Classics Green Olive and Artichoke TapenadeI’ve been making this green olive tapenade for years now. The original recipe comes from Moosewood New Classics, which is a great book for family friendly vegetarian food. This tapenade never fails to impress but it is dead easy to make and can be pulled together in minutes. The original recipe calls for the…
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French Lentil and Onion Soup with Cheesey Croutons: A Kid-Approved Classic
View recipe: French Lentil and Onion Soup with Cheesey Croutons: A Kid-Approved ClassicThe weather in Sydney has been crazy lately – first there was the record breaking heat in January, in February we were lulled into complacency by autumnal mildness only to be hit with a blast of heat and humidity around the middle of the month. On the first of March there was snap into cool…
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Quick and Easy Red Kidney Bean (Rajma) Dahl with Simple Spicing
View recipe: Quick and Easy Red Kidney Bean (Rajma) Dahl with Simple SpicingI make this red kidney bean dahl quite often as a quick midweek meal. I used to always drain and rinse my cans of beans until I started making this recipe. It seemed like a curiously radical thing to do the first time I made it – to throw the beans, liquid and all, into…
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Homemade Beetroot Dip with Hot English Mustard
View recipe: Homemade Beetroot Dip with Hot English MustardLike many Australians, I ate quite a lot of tinned beetroot when I was growing up. It was there on our plates of salads, in sandwiches and, what would the classic Aussie burger be without some slices of beetroot lurking within to jump out and surprise you, leaving a beetroot stain on your best…
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Nostalgic Homemade Pikelets: A Childhood Favorite
View recipe: Nostalgic Homemade Pikelets: A Childhood FavoritePikelets, or drop scones, were one of the first things I can remember cooking as a kid. We had an old fashioned electric frypan, which was perfect for cooking fritters and pikelets. I would sit up on the kitchen bench next to the frypan and help my older sister spoon out the batter and…
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Homemade Refried Black Beans and Zhoug with Red Cabbage Slaw
View recipe: Homemade Refried Black Beans and Zhoug with Red Cabbage SlawI’ve had a bit of a disastrous week on the cooking front. On the weekend, I tried to make a strawberry layer cake from the Smitten Kitchen blog. Deb’s recipes are usually foolproof and this cake, called a Pink Lady Cake, is so gorgeously pink and princessy: I’ve been wanting to make it since I…
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Tzatziki and Fried Zucchini/Eggplant Fritters | Greek Inspired Recipes
View recipe: Tzatziki and Fried Zucchini/Eggplant Fritters | Greek Inspired RecipesI’ve been having a bit of a born-again appreciation of tzatziki recently, which may be explained by the fact that I came back from my holiday to find two almost full large tubs of Greek yoghurt that needed to be used up immediately. Tzatziki is an excellent way to use up copious amounts of yoghurt…
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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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