Tag: tomato
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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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Jane’s Spicy Tomato Sauce Recipe | Homemade Preserves
This recipe for spicy tomato sauce comes from my Tasmanian sister-in-law Jane. Like a lot Tasmanians, Jane is a stand out jam maker and preserver of seasonal bounty. We had a family Christmas in Tasmania a couple of years ago and this spicy tomato sauce and Sally Wise’s awesome plum Worcestershire sauce were the biggest…
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Mastering the Flavor Bomb: Frank Camorra’s Signature Sofrito
I recently got a new refrigerator and nearly doubled my freezer space overnight. My old tiny freezer was always chaotic, with things crammed in so that something would always fall out when I opened the door. Now I have three storage drawers which make feel ultra organised and virtuous and I don’t have to hold…
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Sensational Adzuki Bean Dal | Madhur Jaffrey Recipe
Adzuki beans are not something I associate with Indian food so when a friend first told me about this adzuki bean dal I thought it was some kind of macrobiotic hippy/ Indian fusion dish. In fact adzuki beans are used in all over India where they are known as red chori beans. I’m glad…
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Pomegranate Salsa: Perfect Side for Indian, Mexican, or Middle-Eastern Meals
It’s pomegranate season and pomegranates are something you can’t have too much of in your life. One year I’m going to take a crack at making my own pomegranate molasses but in the meantime I just use them as much as possible of the while the good times last. This pomegranate salsa is really sensational…
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Transform Surplus Tomatoes into Delicious Roasted Sauce
Every wondered what to do with 3-4 kilos of end-of-season tomatoes going cheap at your local green grocers, the answer is this: roasted tomato sauce. Chop the tomatoes up with some onion, garlic, herbs, salt and a good slurp of olive oil. If you’re feeling really fancy, you can add a dash of wine and…
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Fire Roasted Tomato and Mint Salsa Recipe
We’ve just got back from a week-long beach holiday and one of the great things about Forster, the town we were holidaying in, was it had a great fruit and vegetable shop – The Farmer’s Patch, which sources most of its fruit and vegetables locally. You can always spot the urbanised city foodies because we…
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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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Festive and Flavorful – Vegan Spanish Rice with Tomato and Paprika
There is something so festive about Spanish rice that it turns the most ordinary meal of beans and rice into an instant fiesta or party. This recipe comes comes via the recipe site SImply Recipes, which is my ‘go to’ source for Tex-Mex food. The secret to a good Spanish rice is to saute the…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 