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Broad Bean and Chickpea Fritters with Fragrant Green Tahini
It’s broad bean season and I never feel I do fresh broad beans justice but I’m trying to change that this year. If you get over the hassle of the double peeling they are a fantastic celebration of spring. This broad bean and chickpea fritters are similar to falafel but they don’t require all the…
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Discover the Delight of Miso Butter: A Simple Recipe for a Culinary Game Changer
About six months ago, I went with friends to the vegetarian restaurant Yellow for dinner. I’m not really one for fancy restaurants, particularly ones that you have to book months in advance (who can think that far ahead) and then also give up your credit card details so if you don’t show up you get…
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Australian Big Brekkie: Green Eggs Recipe for Sunday Surfing Delight
Australians love their big cafe breakfast, in fact I’m going to go out on a food ethnography limb and say we invented the modern cafe breakfast. As a nation we don’t have that many claims to culinary glory but the big Sunday surfers’ brekkie washed down with loads of coffee or lashings of tea is…
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Spectacular Mashed Beetroot with Yogurt & Za’artar Recipe
When I was a kid you judged a good party by the eye popping colour of its food offerings. Any decent party spread was a riot of colour – pink and green lamingtons, fire engine red frankfurter sausages, fairy bread, jellied orange quarters, green and red pickled onions, bowls of garish lollies and iced fairy…
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Sunset’s Whole Orange Cake Adapted Recipe
I made this cake a few times towards the end of the summer when oranges were not that great but it was still cake that stood out in the crowd even with sub-optimal oranges. This is a whole orange cake, where the oranges are chopped and chucked pith and all into a food processor, whizzed…
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Best Sydney picnic – Ricotta, kale and walnut pesto sandwich recipe
I have a bit of a love hate relationship with my home city of Sydney. In the hate camp, is the fact, that the city is overpriced, congested, mindlessly pro-developer and money obsessed. On the love side, parts of it are just so heart meltingly beautiful you forget about all the bad stuff. Sydney is…
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A very simple Russian beetroot side
I look forward to the World Cup every four years, but it’s a month of very little sleep because the viewing schedule for Australian football fans is grueling, with late nights and early morning wake ups. The last weekend was disastrous because I was sick with a bad cough and cold and I was wondering…
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Ottolenghi’s Easy Party Olive Oil Crackers
When ever I make my own crackers I realise how rubbish even the expensive high quality commercial crackers are. Nothing you can buy compares to home-made ones. I love making Swedish seed crackers but these olive oil crackers are super simple, a three ingredient cracker that you can bring together with minimal fuss. I made a…
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Meera Sodha’s Fresh India Beetroot Raita Recipe
Beetroot is one of my favorite vegetables so it’s kind of surprising I don’t have that I don’t have that many recipes for beetroot on this blog. I’ve just come back from a week away and I ate two outstanding beetroot dishes in my travels. A beetroot risotto from my favourite cafe in Wagga Wagga,…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 