Tag: olive oil
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Fluffy Cuban Mojo Sauce Recipe for Grilled Asparagus
Asparagus is particularly good at the moment with nice juicy, fat stems that are perfect for grilling. For years, I blanched asparagus and then refreshed them in iced water before dressing them, but last year, I discovered the joy of just baking, sauteeing or throwing them on the barbie, which makes fresh asparagus a snap…
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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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Molly Wizenberg’s Granola No. 5 Recipe: Simple, Savory, and Magical
I haven’t baked granola at home for years. I used to make it occasionally when I was in my twenties and it was good, but there were so many ingredients – it was such bother and hassle that I ended up wondering if it was worth it. Then, for a time about 15 years ago,…
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Delicious and Quick Smashed Chickpea Salad Sandwich
I love sandwiches. When I was a kid, my family ate a lot of everyday sandwiches but there were also the sandwiches that my mum made for special occasions: platters of delicate sandwich quarters with their crusts removed and filled with ham and mustard, curried egg, chicken, salmon and, one of my favourites – grated…
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Greek Fasolakia: Slow Braised Green Bean Stew Delight
This is one of those magical dishes: so simple, with a nice short ingredient list which transforms a pile of green beans into something quite different and deliciously more than the some of its parts. The green beans are braised ever so slowly, so that they become oozily tender but not mushy. There is something…
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Simple Peruvian Lentils and Rice Recipe with Red Onion Salad
There are times when the sheer weight of all the available food options becomes overwhelming. Last week, I was sick and went on a bit of congee and brown rice bender in order to regain a sense of balance. Then I made this simple lentils and rice with red onion salad and ate it three…
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Easy Whipped Feta Spread for Summer Entertaining
I read a lot of American food blogs, so I’m constantly filing things away in my head to try next winter (or summer) when they become more seasonally appropriate. There are times when the northern and southern hemisphere food connect a little but, as we move into the festive food seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas,…
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Festive and Flavorful – Vegan Spanish Rice with Tomato and Paprika
There is something so festive about Spanish rice that it turns the most ordinary meal of beans and rice into an instant fiesta or party. This recipe comes comes via the recipe site SImply Recipes, which is my ‘go to’ source for Tex-Mex food. The secret to a good Spanish rice is to saute the…
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Hearty Winter Minestrone with Creamy Chickpeas
Sydney has very short winters. Really, there are only about six to eight weeks of the year when it is really, really cold. This year, winter was slow to start, we had a long hot, hot summer which lingered well into early May, so it now seems like winter has barely begun and it already…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 