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Afternoon Tea Time Treat. Vanilla Buttermilk Cake with Apples and Raspberries
When my daughter was about eight or nine years old her Christmas gift to me was a notebook with Mum’s Recipes copied in her best handwriting in red ink (to match the red scooter on the cover) and a pen. … Continue reading
Posted in Baked, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Apple, Baking, Buttermilk, Cake, Food, Raspberry, Recipe, Vanilla
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A Glorious Cheat. Caminiti Butchery’s Whole Chicken with a Porcini Risotto Stuffing
I was out and about yesterday, crisscrossing Sydney attending to jobs on my burgeoning to-do list. It was a productive and satisfying but exhausting day. In my travels I passed by Great North Road in Five Dock, a little slice … Continue reading
Posted in Poultry, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Butchery, Caminiti, Chicken, Delicatessan, Dinner, Five Dock, Food, Mushroom, Pasticceria, Porcini, Risotto, Shopping
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Crab, Chilli, Garlic and Tomato Tagliatelle with Rocket and Lemon
I stopped by the fishmonger this morning intending to buy some fresh flathead fillets for dinner and froze dead in my tracks. Flathead fillets were $52.99 a kilo! I was stunned. In my mind flathead, delicious as it is, certainly isn’t a delicacy and shouldn’t be … Continue reading
Midweek Roast. Chicken and Potatoes with Chilli, Garlic and Lemon.
There are some days where any one would be excused for thinking that I moonlight as a professional chauffeur. I spend hours from late afternoon to early evening ferrying girls from one after school activity to another. I am just … Continue reading
Posted in Poultry, Vegetables, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Chicken, Chilli, Dinner, Food, Garlic, Lemon, Potato, Recipe, Roast, Vegetables
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Luscious and Light. Strawberry Cloud Cake with Raspberries
This dreamy cake comes to me from across the ditch; that’s New Zealand for any non Australian readers, via my Auntie Alex in Melbourne. She has been making Strawberry Cloud Cake for years. It’s an Annabel Langbein recipe from her … Continue reading
Posted in Frozen, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Cake, Dessert, Eggs, Food, Lemon, Raspberry, Recipe, Strawberry, Vanilla
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Fast and Delicious: Pea and Rocket Soup
This is my go to dish when I am tired, stressed or have simply over-indulged, as was the case this weekend. Its fast and easy to whip up, and so delicious. Who would have thought that a humble bag of … Continue reading
Posted in Soup, Vegetables, Vegetarian, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Food, Parmesan, Pea, Recipe, Rocket, Soup, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Nigella’s Sweet and Salty Crunch Nut Bars with Homemade Honeycomb.
My girlfriend Amanda introduced me to this concoction earlier this year. Its rich and sinful and requires no effort at all. Melt, mix and pour into a pan to set. Pure Nigella Lawson. The original recipe calls for Crunchie bars, … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolate, Confectionery, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Chocolate, Confectionery, Food, honeycomb, Peanuts, Recipe, Salty, Slice, Sweet
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It’s The Shatter That Matters. Old-Fashioned Homemade Honey Comb.
Remember the tag line for Hoadley’s Violet Crumble – it’s the shatter that matters? Growing up I adored Violet Crumble – tooth achingly sweet honeycomb bars smothered in chocolate. After all these years, I’m still a fiercely loyal devotee, give me a Violet Crumble any … Continue reading
Posted in Confectionery, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Confectionery, Food, Golden Syup, honey, honeycomb, Recipe, Sugar
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For Grace. A Taste of the Middle East. Orange and Almond Cake.
We were sitting down to dinner last night when the phone rang. It was Grace with the news that she had just cooked a recipe from one of my first blogs, the Karaage, aka Japanese fried chicken. I cannot tell you the … Continue reading
Posted in Baked, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Almond, Baking, Cake, Flourless, Food, Gluten free, Lactose free, Middle Eastern, Orange, Recipe
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A Taste of Summer. Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls with Seafood and a Lime Dipping Sauce
How ironic! I wrote this post last night when the weather was warm and balmy. What a difference a day makes! Temperatures have dropped, there has been a steady drizzle of rain all morning. What’s more we are bracing for afternoon storms. … Continue reading
Posted in Salads, Seafood, To Serve with Drinks, Vegetables, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Basil, Coriander, Dressing, Food, Herbs, Lime, Mint, Prawn, Recipe, Rice Paper Roll, Salad, Salmon, Seafood, Summer, Vegetables, Vietnamese
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