Tag: summer
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Sally Wise’s Plum Worcestershire Sauce Recipe
This fabulous Plum Worcestershire sauce from the queen of preserves Sally Wise, comes via my Tasmanian sister-in-law, who makes it regularly using the small red cherry plums that grow rampantly in the backyards of Hobart. I made this sauce two years ago using cherry plums from a friend’s tree in Bathurst but this year, all…
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Refreshing Lime Cordial Recipe to Beat the Heat
Sydney has just suffered its worst heatwave since records began – a week of hot and humid weather culminated in three days of 40°+ temperatures across the city (for those not on the celsius scale 40°C is equivalent to 104° fahrenheit). In Penrith, the official temperature peaked at 46.9°C (116.4°F) but in the bitumen heat…
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Rosanne Cash’s Potato Salad Recipe for Summer Barbecue
Everybody needs a killer potato salad to get them through the summer. I’ve been making this salad for many years now and it’s always a big hit. It is my father-in-law’s all time favorite salad, but pretty much everyone I know loves it. This is a messy, no-holds-barred potato salad, with all your favorite ingredients…
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Slow roasted cherry tomato sauce
It’s been incredibly hot and humid in Sydney all through January, but then we had a cool, rainy spell and on Saturday, it was one of those impeccably beautiful late summer days that serve to remind you that despite all the whinging and moaning about the heat and humidity, there are days like this when…
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Vegetarian banh mi with marinated sesame tofu
It’s been like running a marathon this Christmas and New Year – cooking, eating, cooking and eating again. Then, with the spike in heat and humidity in Sydney lately, it’s hard to get the enthusiasm to cook or eat anything. With the weather like this, you really appreciate the genius of Vietnamese food, which is…
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Delicious Southern Corn Cakes Recipe with Fresh Salsa and Whipped Feta
I seem to spend a fair amount of time on this blog whinging about the weather and, in particular, the heat. In the build up to Christmas in Australia, along with the stress of buying presents and the preparing and over consumption of massive amounts of food, comes with an added bonus of extreme heat…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 