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Cheese and chilli cornbread
Cornbread is a lovely, rustic addition to soups or casseroles. I make mine with fresh corn when I can, which means I usually make it in summer. So although cornbread might go with more cooler weather...
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Home baked spelt bread and a simple lunch
There are so many bakeries selling delicious, healthy loaves; for example, the San Francisco sour dough bread I buy at our local bakery, and yet still I find the occasional bread making I do very...
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Chickpea, bacon, avocado and rocket sandwich
This hearty, tasty, stick-to-your-ribs sandwich is a very pleasing combination of healthy, fresh and decadent with a cheeky touch of bacon and a subtle hit of lemon and chilli. It’s pretty easy to...
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Herb and garlic bread
Honestly, once you make this you’ll wonder why you don’t do it more often, it’s so easy. It’s also the fresh herbs and garlic. No matter how great a quick supermarket fix can be, there’s no...
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Australian made – Laucke Bread and Baking Mix review and two tested recipes...
I don’t often use cake or bread mixes as I enjoy baking from scratch, however it’s nice and convenient to use them occasionally and they have come a long way in the past decade or so. I also...
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Happy Wednesday and make me a sandwich
Happy middle of the week and … here’s an awesomely crunchy, creamy, zesty and simple sandwich to keep you going. For future reference - tiger bread shall forthwith be known as giraffe bread. That is...
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My new obsession for breakfast: avocado and egg on toast
I’ve been eating this a lot lately for breakfast/brunch – you could say I’m obsessed! I can’t imagine why I haven’t been eating this my whole life and just had to share in case I wasn’t the only one...
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Berry almond brioche pudding
I’m really very enamored with brioche pudding these days. This one’s full of squishy blueberries and crunchy almonds and was gorgeous with a drizzle of cream. I’m amazed actually, that a tiny bit of...
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St Patrick’s Day slow cooked Irish beef pie with parmesan soda bread crust
To celebrate this year’s St Paddy’s Day, I thought I’d make a hearty beef stew with Guinness. It doesn’t get more Irish than that hey?! I’ve never made one with a soda bread crust before (although...
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Dried cranberry, white chocolate and orange hot cross buns
It’s a bit sacrilegious I know, changing hot cross buns but … I always buy the fruit spice ones and they’re lovely, in fact I usually stock up around this time of year so I can have a few stored in...
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Chicken, walnut and cranberry salad sandwich
I loved this hearty sandwich I made using some of this roast chicken I made on a Sunday a couple of weeks back. A classic chicken salad recipe, it combined the flavoursome, savoury roast chicken with...
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French inspired ham baguette
One of my favourite things to eat on the weekend is a sandwich or roll made with fresh, seasonal ingredients (and is there anything much better than fresh bread?). So we usually go down to the...
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Fairy bread nostalgia
I don’t know who decided soft, white bread with lashings of butter and 100s & 1000s sprinkled over tasted good but there you go, it does. I, like a lot of Aussie kids, grew up with this sweet...
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Cinnamon French toast with strawberry sauce
So recently I tried the lovely vanilla cinnamon shake as part of some Red Ape cinnamon samples sent to me by Jonathan from TBD Imports. Today’s recipe uses their classic Red Ape cinnamon sugar shake...
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Chocolate & caramelised banana baked French toast
Nutella and banana on toast is a no-brainer but in baked French toast is even better. You’ll need about an hour’s advance planning to make this but it’s so worth it. Rather than the crispy, pan...
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Chilli cheese burgers
I love a good burger! I don’t know if I’ve ever said on here (probably but then I have a tendency to repeat myself) but years ago, when I was in my late teens, I became a vegetarian for around 5...
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Brown butter toasted cheese sandwiches
I was reading a book in bed the other night and one of the characters made toasted cheese sarnies but in browned butter! Genius. It’s super tasty, even more so than a plain toasted cheese, which is...
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Lentil, feta & roast carrot salad with garlic croutons
I’ve not cooked with lentils for a while. Recently though, I’ve spotted this salad and this one and their loveliness inspired me to make a late Autumn salad with lentils and carrots. There’s a few...
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Bruschetta toasted cheese sarnie
Well I love bruschetta and toasted cheese sandwiches are my favourite thing ever so why not combine them? You could always slowly roast the cherry tomatoes beforehand, however I prefer them fresh and...
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Pizza Margherita (and a great pizza base recipe)
If I’m honest, my favourite pizza lately is really simple; home made tomato sauce with basil and mozzarella. A few kalamata olives scattered over add a welcome touch of saltiness. I’ve made pizza...
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