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Winter Brown Rice Salad

Winter Brown Rice Salad

by Erin B on June 10, 2013

I’m guest posting over at Claire K Creations today as Claire and her hubby are off traveling around New York. (Jealous!!) I thought I would submit a winter brown rice salad as it is a great example of the kind of dish I love to create and regularly have it packed into my bag for the [...]

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I’ve been having some great fun experimenting with preserved lemon this week, adding them to anything I can think of. This dish encapsulates a number of those experiments, providing a nutritious balance of grains, beans, veg and nuts. Orzo is a fantastic pasta to work with, it cooks in no time at all and brings [...]

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This weekend was the second meeting of our preserves club and a weekend of firsts for me. I put my hand up to host this time round and immediately started fretting about the state of my house and what I would serve to my lovely and very talented guests (I made scones, for the first [...]

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Monday Night Tempeh Tagine

by Erin B on February 27, 2012

We’ve had a bit of a tough month; work pressures are building up again, we’ve been battling sickness and just generally feeling like there’s not enough time to do anything properly. I think one of the hardest things to do when I’m starting to feel a bit flat is look after myself properly. All those [...]

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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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Cookbook Club #6: Adam Liaw's Hainanese Chicken Rice

May 15, 2011

A special post today. A few weeks ago I signed up to take part in the cookbook club hosted by Kay-Lynn over at monkylicious. This is my first attempt at a cookbook club and I really enjoyed the challenge. This months recipe was from Adam Liaw’s new cookbook Two Asian Kitchens which was easy to [...]

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A bit from the herb garden

May 5, 2011
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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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