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Sweet Chestnut Puree & How to Cook Chestnuts
You may have noticed that I’ve been receiving some slightly unusual produce recently. It seems that many early autumn fruits are somehow often overlooked in favour of more common ones like pears and...
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Spiced Sultana (Raisin) & Onion Chutney
Food inspires me. I think about it all.the.time. perpetually jotting down ideas and notes for future recipes, testing flavours and combinations and techniques, making things up – mad scientist style –...
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Rhubarb & Apple Spread. Or it is curd… or perhaps jam. No probably not jam,...
One bunch of rhubarb well past its prime languished in my crisper. A few unsightly end of season apples picked up from the organic food store sat forlornly on the bench top. Cooking them down was the...
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Plum & Ginger Sauce, How to Dry Thyme, and a bit about food waste…
Here’s the deal… I’m going to take 30% [or maybe even 50%] of all the food produced and throw it straight in the bin – probably before it even gets to a store. Of the food that makes it to the grocery...
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Chocolate Macadamia Spread & a February calendar printable
Did you know that a few years back February 5th was declared World Nutella Day? Cheer and celebrate all you like, but I’ll pass. While I won’t subject you [again] to my very strong opinions on the...
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100+ alternatives to PB&J
Whether you grew up eating peanut butter & grape jelly every day at school or have never tried the combination, the concept of pairing fruit and nuts is a classic one. But what if you don’t eat...
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Sriracha – Roasted Chili Sauce
I’m a fan of spontaneity and random romance and catching the eye of your crush across a room. I’m not a fan of corny cards and cheap chocolate and ridiculous expectations. In short, while I do love...
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Rocket, Parsley & Pepita Pesto
Necessity is the mother of invention and this pesto is the result of a last ditch rescue mission in my crisper. There are a few of those happening lately. A Spaghetti Squash – more on that later –...
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Vegan Roasted Garlic Cashew Aioli plus 6 flavour variations!
I never liked mayo. It was viscous and oddly sweet, unnecessary tasteless fat when there were plenty of other perfectly good red and yellow condiments in the centre of the table. I grew up thinking...
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Fig and Black Olive Tapenade
A friend tweeted me a week or so ago asking if I had a recipe for Fig and Olive Tapenade. I didn’t, but to say it peaked my interest would be an understatement. She was looking for a recipe as, thanks...
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Marinated Goat Cheese
No rants or long stories today, just an “I could totally make this myself” recipe inspired by a stunning jar of marinated goat cheese. The cheese, along with copious cups of tea and a plate of fruit...
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Beet Greens & Cashew Pesto
Keeping up with my reasonably skewed approach to pretty much everything these days, a few weeks back I bought a bunch of beetroot a with the sole purpose of lopping off the greens for pesto. Once the...
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Romesco – Spanish Roasted Red Pepper & Nut Sauce
It only took one bite and I was smitten. Simple as that. I have no recollection of ever consuming romesco sauce before that evening but there it was, a base for a head of roasted cauliflower and its...
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Chocolate Tahini Spread (aka Nut-free Not-tella)
Do you know what today is? It’s World Nutella Day! Let’s all cheer and get hopped up on sugar and palm oil! Wait, that isn’t right… is it? Please indulge me for a moment as we hop into the...
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Basil & Walnut Pesto
She unconsciously hummed along with the music playing in the background, humm de dum de da. It was from Milan she explained, as a smile triggered by an ancient memory flitted across her face. The...
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Smokey Chilli-Lime Hummus
My kitchen blender dramas have been well documented, but if you missed the various rants, in short at the end of last year both my immersion hand blender and mini-food processor went on to the big...
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Green Herb Pesto & In My Kitchen: April 2014
If you haven’t noticed I’m rather prolific over on Instagram… ahem, and therefore each time I pull together a list for In My Kitchen I simply scroll back through photos shared since the last post to...
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