Tag: salad
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Asian green salad with tofu, noodles and sesame sprinkle
Just a quick post today because it’s the first day of spring and I wanted to celebrate by eating some asparagus. I was thinking of making pasta primavera but most recipes use cream and I didn’t want to buy some cream, use a small amount and have the rest waste away in the refrigerator, only…
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Winter Salad Recipe: Spiced Sweet Potato, Puy Lentil, Rocket & Honey Walnuts
This is a wonderful winter salad with its warming spices, and the honey-roasted walnuts are stupendously good. Make a double batch of the walnuts, because they are good to snack on: throw into other salads or as a spicy sweet topping on yoghurt and fruit for breakfast. I made this salad on the weekend for…
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Perfect Greek Village Salad Recipe
Greek salad is something I’ve eaten a lot of over the years. It’s a classic salad that I love, but when I order it out at restaurants it’s more often then not, a disappointment, made with second rate feta and flavorless tomatoes. When I make a Greek salad at home it’s something I would never…
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Luxurious Brown Rice Salad with Caramelised Onion and Currants
I’ve been making this salad for years ever since I first cut out the recipe from the Sunday Life magazine. It’s a Karen Martini recipe and what I like best about it is the way she treats brown rice, in such a star-studded way. There is nothing faintly hippyish, dour or self-consciously wholesome about this…
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Savory Moroccan Eggplant and Tomato Salad Recipe
I love this time of year when you get the occasional day with a hint of autumn but you have the best of the summer bounty to cook and eat. Eggplant and tomatoes always have a taste of summer to me and, combined as one dish, they make an unbeatable combination. This particular eggplant salad…
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Refreshing Recipes for Extreme Heat: Labneh Dip and Watermelon Salad
I realise talking about the heat wave is so ‘four days ago’ but when the heat was on, all anybody could talk about was the weather, how hot it was, how hot it was going to get and, most importantly, what the overnight low was going to be. When the heat is unrelenting even during…
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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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Perfect Fluffy Lemon Infused Quinoa Recipe with Corn and Mint
The quinoa boat had well and truly sailed by the time I got on board and started to cook and eat it regularly. In the nineties when quinoa first became available in Australia, I tried cooking it and it was just awful – bitter and slimy – it was nothing I wanted to try again.…
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Claudia Roden’s – Moroccan Sweet Potato Salad with Green Olives
When I was a kid, my mum used to roast the purple-skinned, white-fleshed sweet potato, and the orange sweet potato or kumara was an exotic rarity. Kumara is now a staple of your average fruit and vegetable shop and it is almost impossible to find the old fashioned white sweet potato my mother used to…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 