The Breakfast Challenge – Apple and Peach Breakfast Compote

February 10, 2011

This is my current favourite breakfast, and the next in the Breakfast Cereal Challenge. The first of the new season apples have just arrived at our local Farmers Market, coming down from the Tablelands (within our 160 km range as the crow flies), and there are still some late season peaches too, so just for [...]

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The Breakfast Cereal Challenge – Banana Oatcakes

February 3, 2011

Banana season peaks in February in this part of the world (northern NSW).  Most of our bananas go towards fattening up bush turkeys – my only consolation is how succulent the turkeys are going to be when the real food shortage hits! But although this time of the year, even with the help of possums, [...]

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Orange Date Bars

August 23, 2010

Number 23 in the Muesli Bar Challenge - my weekly series of  recipes for school lunch box baking  that is healthy, easy, cheap and based on fresh produce – features oranges.  It is coming to the end of the navel orange season, and once they finish there will be a gap of a few months until the [...]

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Tangelo Breakfast Compote

May 21, 2010

It’s citrus season, our tangelo tree is loaded, and I have a new favourite breakfast.  There’s a fast morning version that I can make  in the time it takes the coffee pot to perk, and a slow morning version that is decadent enough to get me out of bed on a cold Sunday morning. Tangelos [...]

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Mango (or Blueberry, or Peach) Breakfast Oatcakes

January 19, 2010

The great mango glut is almost over – only a few more weeks – and the grapes will run out about the same time. Next will be kiwi fruit and figs and pomegranates – I went around squeezing them all this morning but they are not quite ready. But we don’t get this kind of [...]

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