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Refreshing Snowpea Salad with Mint and Orange
I made this salad on the weekend after Sydney had experienced its second potentially catastrophic fire day this spring. Last Thursday was a day of 40 degree temperatures and searing hot winds. This was followed on the Friday by a spectacular cool change but, on Saturday, the memory of the heat still lingered. I had…
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Lentil, Fennel, and Cress Soup Recipe
Soup season is on the wane in Sydney but in between the heat spikes, there is still the opportunity to enjoy a nice bowl of soup. This lentil soup is from my archives, a photocopy – from the 1990s when people actually used to photocopy recipes from books. I remember the friend who passed on…
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Quick and Easy Green Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus in my time. Now the absolute best hummus is made with freshly-cooked chickpeas and ground when the chickpeas are freshly cooked. It’s even better if you use those tiny, nuggety organic chickpeas which are packed with flavour. I’ve got a couple of recipes for hummus on this site including…
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Easy Spiced Chickpea and Carrot Salad Recipe
Canned chickpeas are an essential part of the average vegetarian kitchen store cupboard. Of course, in an ideal world, you soak and cook your chickpeas from scratch but we don’t live in an ideal world and nothing beats the convenience of being able to open a can of chickpeas and make a quick meal. The…
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Easy Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Buttermilk and Creamy Brown Sugar Icing
Last Thursday night, I had to make a quick batch of chocolate cupcakes for a cake stall at my son’s school on Friday morning. After a swimming lesson and a trip to the shops, it was past six o’clock before we got home and I started dinner. My son had requested chocolate cupcakes so I…
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Perfect Finger Food: Authentic Maltese Pastizzis for Parties
I always think of pastizzi as being a particularly Sydney food phenomenon. This may be because what is now known as The Original Maltese Cafe in Darlinghurst has been making pastizzis in Sydney since 1952. The cafe has expanded in size and number of locations over the years but they still make a mean pastizzi.…
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Irresistible Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
I’ve been making this cake for years now, ever since I first saw it on the world’s most famous food blog, Smitten Kitchen, in 2006. It is Deb Perelman’s mother’s recipe and Deb claims it may be one of the main reasons her husband married her. This, I can believe, because this cake is worth…
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Festive and Flavorful – Vegan Spanish Rice with Tomato and Paprika
There is something so festive about Spanish rice that it turns the most ordinary meal of beans and rice into an instant fiesta or party. This recipe comes comes via the recipe site SImply Recipes, which is my ‘go to’ source for Tex-Mex food. The secret to a good Spanish rice is to saute the…
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Simple French Chocolate Loaf Cake Recipe
I’m kind of obsessed with loaf cakes at the moment. They have a nice homey, everyday quality that says it doesn’t have to be a special occasion for you to still eat cake. Because, there are times (like in the middle of winter) when it’s almost necessary for your mental health to eat cake. If…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 