Tag: summer food
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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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Sydney Summer Treat: Mango Sago with Coconut Cream Recipe
February is strange month in Sydney – everybody is back at school and work after the summer holidays but it is a month that is often hotter and more humid than January. There’s a sense of lingering resentment amongst people, the holidays are over but it’s still too hot to fully adjust back to the…
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Delicious Baked Peach and Strawberry Crumble
Recently, my friend Alice posted a recipe for a stone fruit skillet streusel pie, which looked so awesome that for the last few days, all I’ve been dreaming about is making that pie. I mean it’s an absolute winner, with a mix of stone fruit, a cornmeal pastry pie crust with a crumble topping –…
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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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Old-Fashioned Pancakes with Lemon and Sugar: A Summer Breakfast Delight
When I was a kid, these simple crepes served with lemon and sugar were the only pancakes I knew until, when I was about ten, we hosted a Canadian exchange student who introduced our family to the joys of real maple syrup and the American-style pancakes, or ‘flap jacks’, as we called them back then.…
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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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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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Muhammara Recipe: Delicious Middle-Eastern Red Pepper Dip
I’ve pretty much given up on the idea of a baking anything this Easter break on account that it is just too damn hot. We’ll buy our Easter buns from the Bourke Street Bakery and they will taste all the better for not having slaved over a hot oven. I’ll just do all my Easter…
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Refreshing Appetizer for Summer: Joanne Weir’s Cucumber and Feta Salad
Easter is early this year and just when our thoughts should be turning to chocolate and baking, Sydney is having an unseasonably hot spell of weather. The Easter holidays are just days away, I know I will feel compelled to eat some chocolate this weekend but, unless we get some kind of cool change, I…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 