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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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Crunchy Chinese Celery Salad with Spicy Chilli Crisp
We don’t celebrate celery enough. How many times have you bought half a bunch of celery because you couldn’t work out to with the rest of the bunch. This salad solves that problem for you: it tastes sensational, uses five large stalks of celery, but it also keeps excellently in the fridge for a few…
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Why British Hobnobs Are the Perfect Dunking Biscuit
A couple of months ago we went to a friend’s place for lunch and my son was introduced to the delights of chocolate coated hobnobs. It’s hard to believe it took twelve and a half years for my son to taste his first chocolate hobnob but once tasted you can never go back. He’s now…
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Delicious Coriander Pesto: Perfect for Noodles and Tofu Dishes
Last week, I had to go away to Melbourne for five days and I spent a couple of days clearing out the fridge. I made some laksa paste and a shallot, ginger, chilli paste for a Burmese curry base. Things were going well and I was feeling pleased with my thrifty frugal house-wifery when I…
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Easy Indian Carrots and Green Peas with Fresh Coriander | Aromatic Vegetarian Side
Peas (almost always frozen) were a staple vegetable when I was growing. I’m still partial to peas as a vegetable and I always have a packet of frozen peas in the freezer, though I don’t dish them up for dinner quite as much as my mum used to. I particularly love peas and rice as…
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Aromatic Vegan Thai Red Lentil Soup by Yotam Ottolenghi
Finally, Sydney has a bit of a cold snap, making it feel like a proper winter at last. In the cooler months, there’s no such thing as too much soup. This Thai red lentil soup from Yotam Ottolenghi is wonderfully aromatic, rich and warming. I’ve doubled the original recipe because I found it didn’t quite…
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Easy Vegan Greek Lentil Soup Recipe
Last weekend, Sydney was buffeted by a one of those once-in-a-hundred-year storms that seem to happen every few years now. The coastal suburbs took the brunt of the bad weather while, in the west, we escaped the worst of the damage and the storms and bad weather moved south to poor Tasmania, where the full…
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Nourishing Red Lentil and Rice Soup Recipe | Vegan Friendly
It was Mother’s Day on Sunday and Sydney was shrouded in smoke from three days of burn-offs in the Blue Mountains. As a result of the smoke haze, I developed a hacking cough. I come from a family on my father’s side with a history of tuberculosis and other lung diseases. My great grandfather died…
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Bill Granger’s Sweetcorn Fritters with Salsa
When I was a kid, my mum used to make corn fritters for Sunday supper. If there was any lamb left over from the lamb roast on Saturday night, she would make lamb fritters as well, but the corn fritters were always my favourite. I don’t think she ever used fresh corn; they were always…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 