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Finders Keepers: cabbage and coriander slaw with sesame seeds
Here's a recipe from New Zealander Emma Galloway which is on her blog My Darling Lemon Thyme. We assembled the coleslaw this week-end at...
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Let's make these appams!
I couldn't include the recipe when I wrote about finally making mum's delicious, light and yeasty, coconutty appams a few days ago. As...
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Kids in the Kitchen: Italian milky lemon scented pork.
Dusted off this article I wrote for Virginia Living many years ago, and I thought with our kids being homeschooled now, it could be...
Tina Brand
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Curry Puffs
First posted on August 20, 2012 Lovely chat with you late this morning Izzy, while I folded curry puffs in Sydney, and you made lunch in...
Tina Brand
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Lagoon Dining: an ode to Melbourne
On Lygon Street historically dominated by Italian cafes and restaurants, coffee and pastries, a quietly elegant SE Asian dining...
Tina Brand
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Nanna's eggplant curry
When we're together, there's always a request for Nanna's eggplant curry. It is an anomaly, not really fitting into any category for...
Tina Brand
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The C Salad : Crunchy summer fresh!
My mum's Gujerati friend used to make and serve this salad on papadams. Each bite makes me happy every time despite the fact I've had...
Tina Brand
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Finders Keepers: Donna Hay's Anzac cookies
If I've baked something twice in a month, it has passed my test of Easy Reliable Quick So here is Donna Hay's recipe for Anzacs. It took...
Tina Brand
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Finders Keepers: Yotam Ottolenghi's beans and curry leaf salad
Okay, let's say this salad was riding on the wings of a good friend's very successful paella today, which, when made generous by our full...
Tina Brand
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Easy Peasy Risoni
This recipe has been a favourite with everyone in this household for ever. The flavours are bright and fresh but it's also a showstopper...
Tina Brand
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Review: Flyover Fritterie in Sydney's Temperance Lane
Tucked deep in a Sydney business district laneway is Flyover Friterie ...... a window counter out of which is dispensed some of the most...
Tina Brand
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South Indian brunch: Upma
You can't go past some upma (pronounced oop-ma) for a comforting breakfast. It is up there with congee; yes its that category of goodness...
Tina Brand
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Munchy muesli treats for afternoon tea
It was cooler this week-end. Our winter of Covid lockdown has been mostly warm sunny days of shirtsleeves and outdoor lunch breaks. So it...
Tina Brand
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Finders Keepers: Drunken Pasta
Drink yourself silly this week-end: on pasta! He's not called the Prince of Pasta around town for no reason. Chef Mitch Orr might belong...
Tina Brand
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Scallion pancakes because they are quick, comforting and oh so addictive!
I've been spending as much time outdoors as I can. Sydney is at its absolute best with sparkling bright days (you wouldn't know the...
Tina Brand
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Date and walnut loaf
I looked on the pantry shelves to see what might make into a cake/biscuit/sweet treat and came across two packets of pitted dates. I was...
Tina Brand
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Finders Keepers: Broccoli & Dill Pasta
Husband Michael printed this recipe off from New York Times Cooking and it sat on the kitchen bench for a few days until he had the time...
Tina Brand
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Ever Green
The phase of slow cooking. We’re home, with time on our hands enabling us to make complicated things that take days…. like bread, or a...
Tina Brand
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Finders Keepers: Salad Dressing
Samin Nosrat of the famed Salt Fat Acid Heat cookbook and tv show wrote with joyful enthusiasm in the New York Times Cooking column about...
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Finders Keepers: Neil Perry's Penne with Chickpeas and Tomato
Husband tore this recipe out of a week-end paper recently and in this current state of 'what's in the cupboard' rather than who's going...
Tina Brand
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