Tag: recipe
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Laura Bush’s Texas Cowboy Cookies Recipe | Homemade American Dessert
Last week, one of my favorite people, a childhood family friend and adopted Aunty, died. My Aunty was old, frail, ready to go and join her husband in the great beyond but it was an occasion filled with the sadness of a passing of an era, the knowledge that you will never see or hear…
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Pomegranate Salsa: Perfect Side for Indian, Mexican, or Middle-Eastern Meals
It’s pomegranate season and pomegranates are something you can’t have too much of in your life. One year I’m going to take a crack at making my own pomegranate molasses but in the meantime I just use them as much as possible of the while the good times last. This pomegranate salsa is really sensational…
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Transform Surplus Tomatoes into Delicious Roasted Sauce
Every wondered what to do with 3-4 kilos of end-of-season tomatoes going cheap at your local green grocers, the answer is this: roasted tomato sauce. Chop the tomatoes up with some onion, garlic, herbs, salt and a good slurp of olive oil. If you’re feeling really fancy, you can add a dash of wine and…
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Palate-Popping Green Pea, Basil, and Mint Soup Recipe
A friend made this soup for me last winter. He’d first eaten it on a plane, an international Virgin flight, got home, Googled it, and had been making it two or three times a week for about a month. It’s that kind of soup – one of those things that when you taste it, it…
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Refreshing Pomegranate Mojito Mocktail Recipe
It’s pomegranate season! I live in a suburb in Sydney that has a lot of backyard pomegranate trees, so even though I buy my pomegranates from a boring old shop, I can still see fruit-laden pomegranate trees and feel connected to the seasons – a rare and magical thing for a city dweller in this…
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Delicious Vegetarian Minestrone Soup Recipe
I haven’t posted for a while, for couple of reasons – firstly, I’ve been madly busy but, secondly and most importantly, it’s been so unseasonably, ridiculously hot over the past month, with a record-breaking run of temperatures over 26°C for weeks on end. Global warming sucks and makes a mockery of all the change of…
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Easy Beetroot Relish with Coconut Sugar and Oil
I had a number of different recipes that I wanted to post (creating a jumble of possibilities) but decided not to post any of them, instead, making do with this quick beetroot relish. It’s the end of summer and the time of year when I start thinking about using the surfeit of summer produce to…
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Homemade Lime Rickey Mocktail with Fresh Lime and Bitters
I’ve been a teetotaler for many years so I’ve drunk a lot of soda, lime and bitters when out at night at pubs as my party drink of choice. The pub version of this classic teetotaler’s drink usually uses a commercial lime cordial, making it too sweet to have more then one or two for…
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Healthy Nasi Goreng with Brown Rice and Asian Greens Recipe
During my two brief stints as a singleton and cooking for one this January, I fully embraced the grain bowl as a way of eating healthily and economically when on my own. I discovered the delights of farro (which is still a bit of an unexplored grain with me) but my fallback when I’m on…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 