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Easy Porcini Risotto Recipe
This recipe for porcini risotto comes from an old newspaper clipping from many years ago. I’ve been slowly going through my old recipe binders and rediscovering old favorites from my files. This risotto is very, very good and like many of my rediscovered recipes I don’t quite understand why it fell from favor. This risotto…
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Classic Swedish Ginger Thins Recipe for Christmas
I have a love hate relationship with Christmas in Australia. Pros are that it’s summer and we can go to the beach, eat mangoes and cherrries and have water fights in the back yard after Christmas lunch. Cons are that it’s summer, its humid and hot and we spend far too much time making and…
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Easy Greek Goddess Dip Recipe for Parties
I recently watched the Martha Stewart documentary on Netflix and it made me nostalgic for those bacchanalian feasts of the eighties, whole wheels of brie, baskets of strawberries and tables of beautifully arranged vegetable crudites. The eighties was all about excess even if it was in the form of masses of vegetable crudites. On Sunday…
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Tempeh Recipe: Satisfying Sticky and Spicy
I love tempeh. I first discovered this wonder food back the 1980’s when it was not widely available commercially in Australia. I was living in Cairns in far north Queensland and once a week I would ride my bike to a house in the next suburb and buy fresh tofu and tempeh from a retired…
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Homemade Japanese Sesame Dressing Recipe
Years ago, I used to go regularly to a Japanese restaurant that used to make the best avocado salad with roasted sesame dressing. This was the dish that I used to dream about and crave between visits. Of course, I tried recreating this salad at home with a commercial Kewpie Japanese dressing, but it was…
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Quick and Easy Braised Tofu Rice Bowl Recipe
I love rice bowl dinners. I’m a big believer in the protein and two veg rice bowl for a balanced meal. This braised tofu is as close as I can get to a one pot meal, it has enough vegetables and protein to make a complete and satisfying meal. Best of all it is made…
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Garlicky Beet Spread Recipe for Festive Snacking
This garlicky beet spread from Melissa Clark makes a wonderful side for latkes and all kinds of fritters. I particularly like it paired with these Turkish Swiss Chard Fritters from Ottolenghi, but it is also very good served with some warmed pita bread and vegetable crudites as a light appetizer and snack. If you’re not…
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Easy Korean Braised Tofu Recipe
I have a lot of braised tofu dishes on this site because, braised tofu is one of my standard dinners when I can’t think of what else to make. I go through various phases of which style of braised tofu I make but at the moment my go to tofu for a mid-week rice bowl…
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Vegetable Ragu: A Frugal Italian Delight
This vegetable ragu is known as fake sauce (sugo finto) and is a great example of cuisina povera or the frugal food of Italy. In this vegetarian ragu sauce, meat is replaced with vegetables. The flavor is layered into the sauce with a slow cooked soffritto of onions, carrots and celery, which is deglazed with…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 