Tag: Jill Dupleix
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Life-Saving Lentil Soup Recipe
This soup from Jill Dupleix is life saving for a number of reasons. It makes a delicious, economical one pot family meal, with ingredients you’re likely to have on hand (requiring no last-minute dash to the shops). It’s even better the next day, so you can make several meals out of it. Although it takes…
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Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe: Perfect Summer Afternoon Tea Dessert
I haven’t baked this cake for a couple of years until I baked it in a lull in the heat last week and again this week. Tart with yoghurt, fragrant with lemon zest, this is (if you can bear to turn on the oven) a perfect summer afternoon tea cake. It comes together quite easily…
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Jill Dupleix’s Upside-down Fruit Cake Recipe
I used to make this cake a lot years ago during the nineties. It’s from Jill Dupleix’s New Food which looks old and dated design-wise now but is filled with stonking good recipes which have stood the test of time. I think I made this cake for an afternoon tea on the day we heard…
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Delicious Olive Oil White Bean Soup with Winter Greens
Sydney has had the longest Indian summer this year, with months of extraordinarily barmy and mild weather, temperatures in the mid-twenties, clear blue skies and warm ocean temperatures, which meant people were still happily swimming in the ocean all throughout May. You would think I could just accept this glorious weather and enjoy it but…
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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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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 