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Weekend Birthday Celebrations. Mini Strawberry Cloud Cakes With Chocolate Bottoms and Fresh Raspberries.
This weekend our daughters celebrated their fourteenth birthday. As always we marked the occasion with home-made birthday cake. This year I revisited Annabel Langbein’s dreamy Strawberry Cloud Cake, the subject of one of my earliest posts. Refashioned into mini cloud … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolate, Frozen, Fruit, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Cake, Chocolate, Cloud Cake, Dessert, Raspberry, Strawberry, Summer
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. 5-2 Fast Diet Meal Idea Under 200 Calories. A Classic Middle Eastern Salad. Tabbouleh Lettuce Cups.
There is nothing nicer than a crisp, refreshing tabbouleh on a hot summer’s day. A classic Middle Eastern salad. The perfect side dish to accompany grilled chicken, seafood or steak. Or simply spooned into lettuce cups. Perfect finger food. Tabbouleh … Continue reading
Posted in Salads, Vegetarian, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Fasting Diet, Lettuce, Mint, Parsley, Salad, Summer, Tabbouleh
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Made From Simple Pantry Items. No Cook Pasta Sauce. Penne With Tuna Rocket and Lemon
This recipe is from my arsenal of what to put on the table for dinner when time is short and everyone is very, very hungry. For those incredibly busy days when my schedule progressively backs up into a colliding, ever-expanding … Continue reading
Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Recipe Idea Under 400 Calories. Roasted Pork Sirloin Steak With Ratatouille.
Fasting is so much easier in the warmer months with an abundance of fresh produce available. I’ve always loved ratatouille a traditional French Provencal dish bursting with the fresh summer flavours of eggplant, zucchini, capsicum, onions and tomatoes. Light and … Continue reading
Posted in Pork, Vegetables, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Capsicum, Cherry Tomatoes, Eggplant, Fasting Diet, Pork, Ratatouille, Summer, Zucchini
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Luscious And Fragrant. The First Mangoes Of The Season. Fresh Mango Salsa With Lime, Chilli and Spring Onion.
Mango season has well and truly arrived here in Australia. Starting early with the first tray of mangoes for the 2013 season selling for $30,000 at a charity auction at the Sydney Markets in September. That’s a whopping $2,500 per … Continue reading
Posted in Fruit, Marinades, Pastes and Dressings, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Chilli, Coriander, Lime, Mango, Salsa, Spring Onion, Summer
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What To Drink As The Temperature Soars? A Grown up Gin And Tonic Slushie.
Gin and tonic has always been my cocktail of choice. Particularly so on a hot and balmy night. Today in Sydney the temperatures soared to an unseasonally warm 37 C. Definitely time for a refreshing Bombay Sapphire with tonic and … Continue reading
Another Trip Down Memory Lane. Ice Magic. Chocolate Crackle Topping And Ice Cream.
Raise your hands if you remember Ice Magic. That chocolate flavoured ice cream topping, manufactured by Cottees. It set hard in seconds. Like magic. A trip down memory lane for me. The stuff of childhood dreams. Instantly transforming a tub … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolate, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Chocolate, Coconut Oil, Dessert, Food, Gluten free, Ice Magic, Icecream, Recipe, Summer
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A Trip Down Memory Lane. Australian Milk Bar Red Back Spiders. Vanilla Ice Cream, Raspberry Coulis And Coca Cola.
Remembering the good old Aussie Milk Bar. The cornerstone of any self respecting city suburb or country town. Mixed businesses usually run by Greek or Italian immigrants. Friendly, communal places where you could pick up the newspaper, a bottle of … Continue reading
Posted in Frozen, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Drink
Tagged Australia, Coca Cola, Coulis, Dessert, Ice cream, Ice Cream Float, Ice Cream Spider, Raspberry, Summer
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Reinterpreting An Old Favourite. Caesar Salad With Poached Chicken and Maple Roasted Bacon.
Another post. Another salad. This time its a reinterpretation of the good old fashioned classic. Caesar Salad. I used to make this all the time. In the nineties that is. Before children. Not having eaten Caesar Salad in a very … Continue reading
Posted in Poultry, Salads, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Bacon, Caesar Salad, Chicken, Dressing, Food, Recipe, Salad, Summer
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Fish on Fridays. Pan-Fried Flathead Fillets By The Plateful. Simply Dressed With Lemon and Parsley.
The first Friday in Lent. The perfect opportunity to eat fish for dinner. And I intend to proffer up a fish dish for dinner every Friday in the lead up to Easter. Personally I love fish. As does my family. … Continue reading
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