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Delicious and Quick Smashed Chickpea Salad Sandwich
I love sandwiches. When I was a kid, my family ate a lot of everyday sandwiches but there were also the sandwiches that my mum made for special occasions: platters of delicate sandwich quarters with their crusts removed and filled with ham and mustard, curried egg, chicken, salmon and, one of my favourites – grated…
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Savory Moroccan Eggplant and Tomato Salad Recipe
I love this time of year when you get the occasional day with a hint of autumn but you have the best of the summer bounty to cook and eat. Eggplant and tomatoes always have a taste of summer to me and, combined as one dish, they make an unbeatable combination. This particular eggplant salad…
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Delicious Moroccan Chickpea and Pumpkin Stew with Cous Cous Recipe
In the 1990s, Australians first discovered Moroccan food and it became one of the defining foods fads of the decade. Many of my friends purchased couscousieres, which eventually became like the fondue sets of the 1970s – relegated to the backs of cupboards or sold off in garage sales. Moroccan food has come back into its…
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Sydney Summer Treat: Mango Sago with Coconut Cream Recipe
February is strange month in Sydney – everybody is back at school and work after the summer holidays but it is a month that is often hotter and more humid than January. There’s a sense of lingering resentment amongst people, the holidays are over but it’s still too hot to fully adjust back to the…
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Delicious Baked Peach and Strawberry Crumble
Recently, my friend Alice posted a recipe for a stone fruit skillet streusel pie, which looked so awesome that for the last few days, all I’ve been dreaming about is making that pie. I mean it’s an absolute winner, with a mix of stone fruit, a cornmeal pastry pie crust with a crumble topping –…
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Healing Rice Broth: How to Make Vegetarian Congee for Illness
I spent almost the entire Australia day long weekend in bed with some kind of undiagnosed ’flu/virus/headache ailment. Although I did manage to get up and watch the first set of the men’s final of the Australian Open on Sunday night before collapsing back into bed, I spent the weekend with that sense of boredom…
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Refreshing Recipes for Extreme Heat: Labneh Dip and Watermelon Salad
I realise talking about the heat wave is so ‘four days ago’ but when the heat was on, all anybody could talk about was the weather, how hot it was, how hot it was going to get and, most importantly, what the overnight low was going to be. When the heat is unrelenting even during…
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Old-Fashioned Pancakes with Lemon and Sugar: A Summer Breakfast Delight
When I was a kid, these simple crepes served with lemon and sugar were the only pancakes I knew until, when I was about ten, we hosted a Canadian exchange student who introduced our family to the joys of real maple syrup and the American-style pancakes, or ‘flap jacks’, as we called them back then.…
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Vegetarian banh mi with marinated sesame tofu
It’s been like running a marathon this Christmas and New Year – cooking, eating, cooking and eating again. Then, with the spike in heat and humidity in Sydney lately, it’s hard to get the enthusiasm to cook or eat anything. With the weather like this, you really appreciate the genius of Vietnamese food, which is…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 