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Continue reading →: Purea di faveBroad bean purée from Culinaria Italy: Pasta, Pesto, Passion by Claudia Piras Simple and delicious. Just potatoes, broad beans, salt and EVOO. I departed from the method. My method : I used organic dutch cream potatoes, which I scrubbed, scored around the circumference, placed in cold salted water and brought to the boil…
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Continue reading →: *Quick Cucumber Dill PicklesVery quick. About 5 minutes from start to finish, but you do need a vacuum chamber. https://anovaculinary.com/pages/chamber-vacuum-sealer-recipes Ingredients: warm water, white wine vinegar, sugar, salt, English cucumbers, dill fronds, garlic, black peppercorns, star anise, and cloves. Sept 2025: new batch
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Continue reading →: Quick and easy hummusfrom Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors from My Israeli Kitchen by Adeena Sussman (page 118) So simple and quick. Just put all ingredients in the blender and blend Ingredients: canned chickpeas with some of the liquid; tahini; lemons, garlic, salt
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Continue reading →: Chickpea-stuff sweet potato with pea couscousThis came out of Woolworths Fresh Magazine: https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/ideas/fresh-ideas-magazine/fresh-ideas-magazine-issues#view=catalogue2&saleId=49604&page=1 Woolworths had run out of peas!, so I substituted sugar snap peas. It was a good dish, but the flavours were on the simple side for me.
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Continue reading →: Beetroot raitaSweet and sour beetroot salad from The Indian Spice Kitchen: Essential Ingredients and Over 200 Authentic Recipes by Monisha Bharadwaj Whipped yoghurt, finely sliced cooked beetroot, salt and sugar topped with coriander and mint (Following the recipe resulted in it being a little too salty for us, but easily fixed next…
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Continue reading →: *A Bicyclette(Campari, white wine and ice)From Beyond Nose To Tail So called in Italy because older people drink it and wobble home on their bikes.I can understand that. Delicious, just like a Negroni
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Continue reading →: Marion’s Kitchen: Thai Red CurrySomething to cook when you don’t feel like cooking, but also need to use all the products in the vegetable drawer. This is so simple, and so good. Only additions were coconut oil, Aldi wild prawns and fresh green beens. And jasmine rice. Previous versions of Marion’s curry I found…
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Continue reading →: Marion’s Kitchen: Thai Green CurryAnother packet recipe. This one was Mediocre. I am biased on thi,s as Thai Green Curry was probably my signature dish when I started cooking. The best recipe I found was from Charmaine Solomon. The best quicker version is in Nigel Slater’s “Appetite.” That said it is probably similar to…
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Continue reading →: *Raw broccoli and basil salad with peanuts and shallotsfrom Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes (page 41) by Alison Roman This is an excellent salad. Quick and packed with refreshing and assertive flavours. Ingredients: shallots (fried)corianderfish saucelimesThai basilroasted salted peanutsflowering broccoli. (I used the white flowering broccoli grown by a neighbour)
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Continue reading →: *Lentils with crispy leeks and fennelfrom Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors from My Israeli Kitchen (page 198) by Adeena Sussman Relatively quick and easy. Very tasty. Ingredients ground cuminfennelleekslentilschicken brothbaharat spice mix (see previous post)
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