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Turkish Swiss Chard Fritters Recipe | Ottolenghi Inspired
I’ve got a plethora of silverbeet (aka swiss chard) in my garden at the moment. I planted quite a lot after the flooding rains last year when greens became incredibly expensive. Now greens are incredibly cheap at the shops and I’ve got a bumper crop of silver beet in the garden to try and eat…
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Perfect Chocolate Sables Recipe for Christmas
I used to make chocolate sables as one of my Christmas biscuits for years, but I stopped making them a few years ago (Much to the disappointment of my nieces) because the sable biscuit recipe I used was too delicate and prone to falling apart in the heat and humidity of an Australian Christmas. This…
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Traditional Family Nut Roast: A Christmas Favorite
I’ve made this nut roast for a number of years and it has become a standard at our family Christmas table along with the lavishly rich and always popular Party Potatoes. A few years ago, instead of making party potatoes for Christmas lunch I reverted to my former Christmas standard – Russian salad. The sad…
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Quick Northern Style Chickpeas Recipe with Fresh Green Chutney
I’ve been making this simple chickpea dish a lot lately from one of my latest cookbook acquisitions Madhur Jaffrey’s Vegetarian India. One of the pantry staples in my vegetarian dinner rotation is the humble can of chickpeas and I’ve used A LOT of cans of chickpeas over the years. This recipe uses the liquid from…
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Alison Roman’s Dilly Bean Stew Recipe: Comforting One-Pot Meal
For the past six months my partner has been away for most of the time, so I’ve been home alone with my teenage son. On the food front my son and I often part ways about on what is most desirable to eat – there is only so much noodles and pasta I can handle.…
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Frugal Chana Masala Recipe for Worker’s Curry | Meera Sodha
I wouldn’t say I’m enjoying the high fruit and vegetable prices at the moment but it has given me an re-newed appreciation of the range of veggies we’ve been used to having at our fingertips for so long. In this age of relative scarcity (even frozen vegtables are hard to come by) I’m wasting way…
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Traditional Turkish Red Lentil Soup Recipe with Aleppo Pepper Infused Oil
This is a quick post of a soup that I discovered on Ozlem Warren’s Instagram account which showcases the very best of Turkish food. In keeping with the cost of living crisis we are endlessly being told about this is a simple, frugal meal. What sets it apart is the knob of butter melted in…
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Warburtons Crumpets Recipe: Perfecting the Practically Perfect Crumpet
We are now in week 10 of lock down in Sydney, we’re hitting massive vaccination targets but we don’t seem to be any closer to the end of this thing. I feel like I’ve gone through most of the seven stages of grief over these ten weeks – denial, anger, depression, bargaining and finally to…
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Lentils with Crispy Fried Onions and Sautéed Greens
I love this simple, humble lentil dish. You can take your fancy French de puy or black beluga lentils this needs only needs plain brown lentils, which I have a newfound appreciation for, in the way they disintegrate every so slightly to make a tasty gravy for this stew. This dish can be served with…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 