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Old-Fashioned Creamed Spinach Side | Indulgent Spinach Recipe with Dill and Nutmeg
When I make creamed spinach I usually make this Indian version from Madhur Jaffrey but sometimes I get a craving for an old school bowl of creamed spinach like they serve at steak houses or the creamed spinach they used to serve at the long gone, but legendary St Kilda institution Cafe Scheherazade, as a…
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Cooking in a Pandemic – Roasted apple sauce
What a year this has been. My sister past away in August last year so I thought that was going to be the defining event for the year. For months there was the bone crushing fatigue of grief, from September on I kept chanting to myself if I can just get through to the Christmas…
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Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe | Easy Homemade Dessert
Every August when there is a glut super cheap winter strawberries from Queensland I wonder if I should make use of this abundance by making a strawberry shortcake and I think yeah – nah because once you bake and assemble a strawberry shortcake it has to be eaten immediately and I need a bit of…
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Pistachio & Date Nankatai: A Delicious Indo-British Biscuit Recipe
I love a good Indo-British food mash up. Nankatai are an exotic take on Scottish shortbread popularised by Parsi bakers in the wealthy trading city of Surat in Gujarat. They are yet another example of the rich multi-cultural food influences of the Indian subcontinent. Nankatai are eggless and so suitable for vegetarians which are in…
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Discover the Delight of Miso Butter: A Simple Recipe for a Culinary Game Changer
About six months ago, I went with friends to the vegetarian restaurant Yellow for dinner. I’m not really one for fancy restaurants, particularly ones that you have to book months in advance (who can think that far ahead) and then also give up your credit card details so if you don’t show up you get…
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Tasty Za’artar Biscuits with Cheddar and Parmesan Recipe
It’s hard to go wrong with cheese biscuits, they are invariably, insanely, delicious. But how could you go wrong, cheese biscuits are pretty much baked cheese with a bit of butter and a flour thrown in to hold it all together. These cheese biscuits also have the exotic twist of za’artar and sumac sprinkled on…
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Traditional Christmas Shortbread Recipe with Rice Flour and Vanilla
I wasn’t going to bake any biscuits or cookies this Christmas. I usually bake a selection of biscuits, which I decide on in the weeks leading up to Christmas – Oreos, Greek Easter biscuits and Graham crackers are some of my favorite festive bikkies. But this year I was going away on the 16th of…
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Margaret Fulton’s Peanut Butter Cookies: A Classic Recipe
Peanuts and peanut butter seem to be having a renaissance. When I go down to Melbourne ,which is the centre of hipster food in Australia, peanuts seem to have squeezed their way back onto menu of all the best cafes. I even saw peanut and jelly pancakes on the breakfast menu at Lolo & Wren…
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The Easiest Apple Cake Recipe You’ll Love
I’m not a huge apple cake fan, I find the whole idea of apple cake a little humdrum. When someone tells me they’ve made an apple cake my heart doesn’t automatically leap, I mean there’s a limit to how amazing an apple cake can be… right? That was what I thought until I tried this…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 