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Kim Boyce’s Oatmeal Pancakes Recipe | Nutritious and Satisfying
Even though I’ve had a mainly vegetarian diet for many years, I’ve never really been much of a wholegrain type of vegetarian. Perhaps this has been a reaction to the overly virtuous, heavily wholemeal vegetarian food of the 1970s and ’80s. Recently, so many different flours and ancient grains have become readily available that it’s…
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Paschalina koulourakia: Greek Easter biscuits
Easter is my favourite festival of the year. With our history as a British colonial outpost, Australians have long suffered through Christmas, maintaining northern hemisphere food traditions in the boiling heat of summer. The translation of a northern springtime Easter to a southern hemisphere autumn makes much more sense though. Eating loads of chocolate in…
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Vegan Fasolatha Soup – Greek Recipe with White Beans
I love it when the weather gets cooler and we can just have soup for dinner. We all love soup in our house but I love it the most because it is a complete one pot meal, which can stretch over two nights and even a lunch or two. Fasolatha is one of those simple…
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Savory Quinoa and Cottage Cheese Cakes with Spring Onions
Despite dark childhood memories of earnestly healthy but tasteless sprout and cottage cheese sandwiches, I’m having a bit of a ‘born again’ appreciation of cottage cheese at the moment, and not just for its retro nostalgic ‘meaty’ qualities, such in these vegetarian sausage rolls. I was brought back into the cottage cheese fold by these…
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Ultimate Slow Cooked Chickpeas by Ottolenghi
I use canned chickpeas a lot, for their ease and convenience, and they are perfectly fine and good, but something happens when you take the extra trouble to soak and cook your own chickpeas that turns this humble store cupboard staple into something extraordinary. These slow cooked chickpeas from Yotam Ottolenghi’s latest book Plenty More…
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Paula Wolfert’s Creamy Vegan Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus over the years. When I’m in a rush, I use canned chickpeas, throw them in the processor and in five minutes, I have a pretty decent hummus that is miles ahead of any of the tubs of supermarket hummus you can buy. But, if you want to make a…
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Slow roasted cherry tomato sauce
It’s been incredibly hot and humid in Sydney all through January, but then we had a cool, rainy spell and on Saturday, it was one of those impeccably beautiful late summer days that serve to remind you that despite all the whinging and moaning about the heat and humidity, there are days like this when…
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Delicious Graham Crackers: Homemade Recipe with Nutty Flavour
It is Australia Day and I suppose I should post something kind of typically Australian, but as a national day of celebration, I have my problems with Australia Day. When I was a kid, I can’t remember Australia Day being that big a deal: there was a holiday, but all the rah-rah drunken bogans wrapped…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 