Tag: basil
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Cool Summer Recipe: Dorie Greenspan’s Spoonable Ricotta for Heatwave Survival
I haven’t posted anything for a long time – first there was Christmas, then summer holidays and going back to work, but mainly I haven’t posted because… the heatwave!! I always complain about the heat this time of year. Sydney in February is always hot, humid and horrible but January was the hottest month on…
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Palate-Popping Green Pea, Basil, and Mint Soup Recipe
A friend made this soup for me last winter. He’d first eaten it on a plane, an international Virgin flight, got home, Googled it, and had been making it two or three times a week for about a month. It’s that kind of soup – one of those things that when you taste it, it…
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Karen Martini’s Spring Time Minestrone Primavera
Late October and early November in Sydney, the weather is changeable but in the past few years, the weather shifts have been more extreme. Last week, we went from fiercely hot, bush fire days with the air filled with smell of ash in the air, to super storms and snow in the mountains, and the…
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Delicious Southern Corn Cakes Recipe with Fresh Salsa and Whipped Feta
I seem to spend a fair amount of time on this blog whinging about the weather and, in particular, the heat. In the build up to Christmas in Australia, along with the stress of buying presents and the preparing and over consumption of massive amounts of food, comes with an added bonus of extreme heat…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 