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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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Easy Refried Black Beans Recipe for Tacos
We eat a lot of refried beans at our house. Tacos or burritos are one of the most kid friendly vegetarian meals going. A taco spread is an instant party and like all good party food it has the added advantage of allowing kids to build their own meal. I’ve seen children make a taco…
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Nostalgic Pearl Barley Broth Recipe
This soup reminds me of my grandmother, it is like something she would have made, although she would have used a beef or lamb stock. I’m a much more slap dash cook than my grandma, who was very careful in the way chopped her vegetables and put food together. That was always the essence of…
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fast Grated Vegetable Stock
The days are getting cooler and its time to stock up on some stock for soups, risottos and stews. This stock from River Cottage Veg everyday is a good, quick, all round stock. The vegetables are grated so it only needs to simmer for 10 minutes. For those who like to think ahead double the…
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Quick Lacquered Tofu with Green Beans and Cashews Recipe
You can never have too many braised tofu dishes in your repertoire. This one from Deborah Madison is a particularly good one. It’s a wok and rice pot meal that gets dinner done fast in the mid-week lull when all cooking inspiration has disappeared. I like to serve this with brown rice, but I’ve temporarily…
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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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Light and Delicious Carrot Feta Fritters Recipe
I made these last night to refresh a dinner of left over black beans and rice. They’re good like that fritters, a rejuvenating element that can turn the simplest of meals into something of a party. You can make fritters out of anything but the old carrot fritter seems to be a bit under- represented,…
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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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Easy Sheet Pan Spinach Quiche Recipe for Picnics and Parties
I’ve made this a sheet pan quiche a bit over the last few weeks, it’s great for picnics at the beach, potluck luncheons or cut into small slices for party finger food. It’s dense with spinach so you feel like your getting a decent quota of greens, and because I use both frozen spinach and…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 