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Springtime Barley Risotto

November 8, 2011

Howdy Folks, Well spring has definitely sprung here in Adelaide. I know this because I’m sneezing like crazy and there is an abundance of peas, broad beans and asparagus at the farmers markets.

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Coconut Curry & Jukut Urab (Green Bean Salad)

September 13, 2011

Hi Folks! Back again today with a couple more Balinese recipes from my adventures at the Paon Bali cooking class. Both of these recipes use the basic yellow sauce featured in my last post. It’s such a wonderfully fragrant and versatile flavour combination you could mix it up in a heap of ways.

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A taste of Bali – Sup Jamur & Base Gede

September 6, 2011

Bali is a tropical paradise filled with wonderful people, delicious food, fantastic weather and beautiful scenery. After a long, cold, rainy winter Paul and I were desperate for a break and some sunshine but we didn’t have a lot of time so we decided to head to Bali for a week in the sun. Our [...]

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Carrot & Quinoa salad – Almost Vegan

May 19, 2011

This dish was a bit of a last-minute creation inspired by a salad I’d eaten from ‘Let them Eat’ over the weekend at Bowerbird Bazaar, a fantastic local design showcase packed full of creative creations and locally produced food. Having grated up far too much carrot for the Mother’s Day cupcakes I was looking for [...]

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Crunchy raw beet salad with feta and pear – Jamie Oliver

April 29, 2011

This is the first entry taken from one of our many cookbooks. When I first started writing this blog one of my main goals was to make better use of the extensive recipe collection we’ve built up over the years and yet most of my posts so far have been of my own creation. Not [...]

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Sweet Potato Ravioli + Paul's perfect pizza sauce

April 28, 2011

This is a bit of a two for the price of one recipe today. Having purchased a packet of wonton wrappers to make Pork and Chive Dumplings the other night, I needed to use up the remaining wrappers and decided to have a go at making some sweet potato ravioli/tortellini. I was a little unsure [...]

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Pork and Chive Dumplings

April 26, 2011

Recently I travelled to Sydney on business. It was a short but fruitful stay in the heart of Chinatown where incredible noodle and dumpling dishes abound. A couple of highlights for me were the dumplings from Din Tai Fung at World Square and a local, but very popular restaurant known only as the ‘Chinese Noodle [...]

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'Throw Down' Chicken Somen

April 18, 2011

A lovely, fresh, quick and easy lunch that is healthy and packed with protein. ‘Throw Down’ because I threw this together as a quick lunch using whatever was on hand. Earlier in the week I bought a whole chicken, jointed and then froze it. It saves money and the meat is much fresher! I’m looking [...]

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