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Spiced Cauliflower

May 16, 2012 Recipes

My newest cookbook is The Hairy Bikers’ Best-Loved Recipes. I’ve read through it (yes, I do do that) a couple of times and noted lots of recipes I’m keen to try. The cooler weather in Adelaide has meant we’ve started thinking about stews, so later in the week you will be able to read all [...]

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Vietnamese Shaking Beef

May 4, 2012 Recipes

Even though I am ‘at home’ most of the week I don’t have nearly as much time as I’d like for cooking exciting and elaborate dinners. So I am always on the lookout for tasty things that I can get out of the kitchen in reasonable time. Trawling through my delicious bookmarks I spotted this [...]

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Chocolate Brownies

April 13, 2012 Recipes

It’s been a while since I’ve had an opportunity to try out another brownie recipe, but a family lunch at Easter provided the perfect excuse to tick a recipe off the list. This one comes from Chocablog, which, not surprisingly, is a blog all about chocolate. Although based in the UK, Chocablog has contributors around [...]

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Chettinad Fried Chicken

April 5, 2012 Recipes

There is a restaurant review in the works but today I’m running short of time so here is an excellent chicken recipe that you might find useful over the long break. This is an Indian recipe (Chettinad is a region in Tamil Nadu, in southern India) but it’s a really welcome change to a big [...]

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Corn and Spinach Muffins

April 2, 2012 Recipes

Personally, I am not really into savoury muffins at all. However, what I am very much into at the moment is food that is portable, self contained and freezer friendly. This means that, with minimal planning, I always have something I can feed to the Eating Machine (that’s the baby) at relatively short notice. So [...]

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Pakoras

March 30, 2012 Recipes

When buying kitchen gadgets we generally adopt the approach of buying a cheap, entry level model first up to see if we actually use the toy, with the intention that if we hammer it and it breaks, we buy a better one and if we never use it we’ve not parted with two much cash. [...]

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Coffee Ice Cream

March 19, 2012 Recipes

Of course, ice cream photographs badly … but I’m sure you get the idea! A seriously underused cookbook in my collection is The Silver Spoon. This is the Italian cooking bible and covers absolutely everything. If you want to cook it and it’s vaguely Italian … you should find it in The Silver Spoon. We [...]

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Beef and Beer Stew

February 15, 2012 Recipes

Well, Adelaide’s cool weather appears to have disappeared for a while, but our friends in the northern hemisphere are freezing their little tootsies off, so at least some readers should have an immediate use for this recipe. The rest of us can save it up until the next cool snap. As you may have gathered, [...]

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Nigella’s Chocolate Nut Bar

January 30, 2012 Recipes

Normally, when I go to a lunch or dinner at a friend’s house I take some chocolate brownies. But it has been so hot here in Adelaide that there was no way I was putting on the oven. No way at all. I don’t really do a lot of no-bake desserts so I was at [...]

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Cucumber and Chilli Salad

January 12, 2012 Recipes

I’m generally pretty rubbish when it comes to things horticultural, particularly if they’re vegetables. Flowers I’m actually reasonable at. Vegetables – horrendous. So it’s come as something of a shock to harvest four telegraph cucumbers in the space of 2 days. This set me to start investigating cucumber recipes … and cucumber and chilli salad [...]

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