Tag: olive oil
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Perfect Fluffy Lemon Infused Quinoa Recipe with Corn and Mint
The quinoa boat had well and truly sailed by the time I got on board and started to cook and eat it regularly. In the nineties when quinoa first became available in Australia, I tried cooking it and it was just awful – bitter and slimy – it was nothing I wanted to try again.…
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Filipino Mongo Recipe with Mung Beans and Spinach
Today is Food Revolution Day, a global forum initiated by Jamie Oliver to celebrate the cooking and sharing of food. Food and cooking are some of the most fundamental ways we have of sharing and connecting as humans and it’s vital we pass this knowledge on to our children and the future generations. My contribution…
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Muhammara Recipe: Delicious Middle-Eastern Red Pepper Dip
I’ve pretty much given up on the idea of a baking anything this Easter break on account that it is just too damn hot. We’ll buy our Easter buns from the Bourke Street Bakery and they will taste all the better for not having slaved over a hot oven. I’ll just do all my Easter…
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Moosewood New Classics Green Olive and Artichoke Tapenade
I’ve been making this green olive tapenade for years now. The original recipe comes from Moosewood New Classics, which is a great book for family friendly vegetarian food. This tapenade never fails to impress but it is dead easy to make and can be pulled together in minutes. The original recipe calls for the…
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Claudia Roden’s – Moroccan Sweet Potato Salad with Green Olives
When I was a kid, my mum used to roast the purple-skinned, white-fleshed sweet potato, and the orange sweet potato or kumara was an exotic rarity. Kumara is now a staple of your average fruit and vegetable shop and it is almost impossible to find the old fashioned white sweet potato my mother used to…
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La Pizza Rossa Recipe: Tessa Kiros’s Hearty and Satisfying Deep Dish Pizza
If the world has been engaged in a pizza war – thin against thick crust it would seem the thin crust has won decisively, Neapolitan-style pizza rules and the deep-dish square pizza is decidedly passé. The thinner the crust the better, at some of the cooler pizzerias the crust seems to be barely there, after…
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Authentic Vegetarian Stuffed Vine Leaves Recipe
This is my recipe for vegetarian stuffed grapevine leaves, which are perfect feast food. Because I generally make these vine leaves for parties, I triple this recipe and make a big four litre pot of them. Although they are quite a bit of work, you’ll have to trust me that they really are worth it.…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 