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Marcella Hazan’s Essential Tomato Sauce Recipe
This tomato sauce with onion and butter is from Marcella Hazan is astonishingly simple and delicious. It’s been posted a million times on various food blogs and raved about countless times, but that’s no reason not to do so again. I’ve made this sauce many times over the years, it reminds me of the spaghetti…
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French Lentil and Onion Soup Recipe
It’s muggy and wet in Sydney. After the intense record-breaking heat wave of early February we’ve gone into a record-breaking season of rain… so much rain, everyone’s sick of the rain. Australia’s a drought prone continent and with global warming there have been years where I thought it was never going to rain again, so…
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Homemade Salted Caramel Chocolate Slice Recipe
There is something very homely but elegant about an old fashioned slice. When I was a kid, my mother had about half a dozen slice recipes that were family favourites. In the days when most sweets were homemade, a slice was less labour intensive than biscuits and kept better than cake. Cut into small one…
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Magical Strawberry and Rhubarb Crumble | Quick and Delicious
There is something magical about the combination of strawberries and rhubarb. I recently went out for dinner and had a strawberry, rhubarb and ginger mocktail which was truly sensational. Strawberry and rhubarb jam is my all time favorite jam. A couple of months ago I made a stupendous strawberry and rhubarb pie to take to…
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Eggless Indian Savory Shortbread Recipe: Khara Biscuits for Tea Time
I love dunking biscuits in tea but I get a bit sick of sweet biscuits, so these Indian khara biscuits are perfect for a savoury dunking experience. Indian vegetarians don’t eat eggs – their baked goods tend to be ‘eggless’ but not vegan, as dairy is used. Some Indian cooks use vegetable shortening in these…
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Things to bake after a firestorm: Date and walnut rolls
Last Thursday morning, I posted a recipe for a snowpea, almond mint and blood orange salad and I wrote that it was the perfect thing to eat when recovering from the heat of a potentially catastrophic fire day, like the day we experienced on the previous Thursday. When I posted this in the morning it…
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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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French Lentil and Onion Soup with Cheesey Croutons: A Kid-Approved Classic
The 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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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 