Tag: baking
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Comforting Polenta Scones with Vegetable Cobbler
It’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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Alice’s Pear, Pistachio and Chocolate Cake Recipe | Simple and Delicious
My 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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Ina Garten’s Lemon and Buttermilk Pound Cake Recipe
Although I do not really consider myself much of a cake cook, I do bake cakes – because if you’re going to eat cake, it might as well be homemade. Everyone needs a ‘slam dunk’, great lemon cake in their repertoire and this is mine because it manages to strike the perfect balance between lemony…
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Crunchy Sesame and Pistachio Damascus Cookies Recipe
Last week, when most of the people I knew were engaged in the great Australian bake-off of Anzac Biscuits for Anzac Day, I decided to swim against the tide and bake some Damascus cookies. Many years ago, I used to work in a café in Melbourne and we sold massive amounts of a house-made version…
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Authentic Greek Spinach Pie Recipe – The Best Spanakopita
I don’t know what it is about Good Friday, perhaps it all that Christ death symbolism swirling round but it’s always a bit of a downer of a day. I always seem to feel unwell, with some kind of headache or even a full-blown migraine. This good Friday was no exception. I had a…
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Christmas Baking: Refrigerator Biscuits Recipes for Hot Weather
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the kitchen and do a bit of Christmas baking, Sydney gets hit with a heatwave and it’s difficult to work out what you can possibly bear to eat, let alone turn on the oven and bake Christmas biscuits. In the humid heat of early…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 