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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes, Tofu, Vegan

Easy Vegan Chocolate Mousse with a Mexican Twist

I used to make these chocolate puddings regularly about eight years ago, when this recipe was doing the rounds of a lot of food blogs. I have noticed similar versions of vegan chocolate tofu mousse have recently gone viral on Instagram. It is such simple recipe that it perfect for an Instagram reel. Basically you…
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Recipes, Rice bowl meals, Vegan

Greek Spinach and Rice Recipe with Lashings of Olive Oil

I’ve just come back from a long two month trip to India. I love Indian food but I got very homesick for food from home. I particularly missed olive oil. I dreamt of lashings of olive oil in – salads, hummus, babaganoush, tabouli and in particular this dish – Greek spinach and rice, which was…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Vegan

Crunchy Roast Chickpeas Recipe | Delicious Salad & Soup Garnish

These crispy roast chickpeas are great to snack on but they are also delicious strewn through salads, sprinkled on rice or as an extra crunch factor, garnish on soups or stews. You can change up the flavors with chat masala or your favorite spice mix, maple syrup, dried herbs, miso, zaatar or anything that strikes…
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Recipes, Soups, Vegan

Homemade Cabbage and White Bean Soup Recipe | Delicious and Freezable

It has been freezing in Sydney for the paste few weeks. We had a late start to soup season but I am now in full swing, My routine is I make a soup on Sunday eat it through the beginning of the week. I’ve been alternating between a ‘tweaked’ version of my lentil soup and…
View recipe: Homemade Cabbage and White Bean Soup Recipe | Delicious and Freezable
Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Recipes, Vegan

Master Recipe for Crunchy Homemade Crackers

Homemade crackers are one of those things that are a low effort high reward. I always feel homemade pasta is over hyped, sure it’s delicious but it is a total hassle and is it worth the mess, space and time when a good quality dried pasta is almost as good and with some sauce combinations…
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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes

Alison Roman’s chocolate chunk shortbread recipe | Salty and Sweet!

I made this chocolate chunk shortbread for the second year running as part of my Christmas cookie menu and OMG it was such a hit both times. Youngs, olds everyone loves this shortbread. They are salty and sweet and have this delicious crunchy fringe of demerara sugar that is spectacularly good. This year I made…
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Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads, Pancakes, Fritters, Dumplins, Recipes

Turkish Swiss Chard Fritters Recipe | Ottolenghi Inspired

I’ve got a plethora of silverbeet (aka swiss chard) in my garden at the moment. I planted quite a lot after the flooding rains last year when greens became incredibly expensive. Now greens are incredibly cheap at the shops and I’ve got a bumper crop of silver beet in the garden to try and eat…
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Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes

Perfect Chocolate Sables Recipe for Christmas

I used to make chocolate sables as one of my Christmas biscuits for years, but I stopped making them a few years ago (Much to the disappointment of my nieces) because the sable biscuit recipe I used was too delicate and prone to falling apart in the heat and humidity of an Australian Christmas. This…
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Traditional Family Nut Roast: A Christmas Favorite

I’ve made this nut roast for a number of years and it has become a standard at our family Christmas table along with the lavishly rich and always popular Party Potatoes. A few years ago, instead of making party potatoes for Christmas lunch I reverted to my former Christmas standard – Russian salad. The sad…
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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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