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Delicious Black Barley Salad with Cauliflower and Pomegranate
Black barley is an ancient grain, unlike modern barley where the husk is removed the husk on black barley is kept intact. This makes it a nutritionally rich source of vitamins B and E, calcium, iron and potassium. It is also cholesterol free and a good source of fiber and selenium. I recently cut out…
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Moist Orange Poppyseed Cake Recipe with Almond Flour
I’m on an ayurvedic diet at the moment which has cut plain wheat flour and refined sugar from my diet. This means I haven’t been baking that many cakes and biscuits and when I have baked I’ve been experimenting with using different flours and sugar replacements like monkfruit. Sugar replacements like monkfruit are super expensive…
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Wholesome Seed Bars: A Healthy Sweet Treat Recipe
I’ve made these seed bars a few times as a wholesome sweet treat. The first couple of times I dipped them in chocolate, which made them a slightly decadent and delicious treat. This time, I was making them for this post and I kept procrastinating about the chocolate and ended eating the batch without the…
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Flavor-Packed Shredded Tofu with Charred Shallots
I first made this shredded tofu for a vegetarian option in a taco dinner party, which had a braised beef brisket as the main star. Surprisingly, the brisket eaters happily devoured the tofu alongside the meat option. Perhaps this wasn’t so surprising because this shredded tofu is totally delicious. I came across this recipe via…
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How to Make the Perfect Black Bean Soup
I love the end of summer for the abundance of produce but it is also my favourite time of year because as the weather cools it’s time to make soup! This black bean soup makes a good transitional soup as the summer eases into autumn. Its colourful fresh garnishes and a side of tortilla chips…
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Vegan Chickpea ‘Tuna’ Salad Recipe
‘Chickpea of the Sea’ is a vegan smashed chickpea ‘tuna’ style salad. I haven’t made it for years, but I’m on the search for things that I can prep and have in the fridge for sandwich and toast toppings. I’d forgotten how surprisingly delicious chickpea ‘tuna’ salad was, I had it for lunch over the…
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Rainbow Quinoa Salad Recipe: Healthy & Delicious
I recently got back from a six week trip to India and as usual when I’m travelling I began to crave crunchy fresh salads. During my trip I spent three weeks in an Auyervedic clinic in Kerala doing a panchakarma detox. At the end of my three weeks I was given a list of a…
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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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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 