Roast Beetroot and Macadamia Dip

May 10, 2011

This is the second of my Halloween dips.  This one disappeared even faster than the pumpkin one, with the kids happily hoeing into beetroot.  I have beetroot in the garden and macas from our trees, and another batch in the oven right now, the second one since. I’ve developed a fetish for beetroot dip open [...]

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Roast Pumpkin and Macadamia Dip (or Spread)

May 4, 2011

Pumpkin season.  Infinite number of pumpkin recipes required. This one has used up several of our pumpkins, and will use up several more before the season ends. This is one of the dips I made for our Halloween progressive dinner (southern hemisphere Halloween, last weekend).  The kids got into it and made a very big [...]

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Happy Halloween! Honey Soy Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

April 30, 2011

It is Halloween in Australia, and peak of the pumpkin season.  Roasted pumpkin seeds are a hugely healthy and totally addictive snack.  And they are so easy. Halloween, or Samhain, marks the midpoint between autumn equinox and the mid-winter solstice. It is the last of the three traditional harvest seasons, marking the real last this-is-it [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge – Turmeric and Mandarin Nut Butter

April 22, 2011

Kids may not like this one (though it is surprising, sometimes, what kids like).  This is a recipe for people who like their chocolate dark, who like expresso coffee and olives and beer and marmelaide.  If you do like bitter flavours though, it is addictive and it’s my current favourite breakfast. What led to this [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge – Macadamia and Pear Butter

April 1, 2011

I have to admit any  Breakfast Cereal Challenge recipe at the moment has to go on top of toast – I have a current obsession with sourdough. But this toast topping has been a favourite for a few weeks now. Macadamia nuts are in right in season and they are super healthy. If you live [...]

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Asian Style Cucumber Salad

February 14, 2011

This is another of my favourite summer salads.  Cucumbers are practically in glut this time of year, but I can’t get inspired to do any preserving.  One year I made dozens of jars of bread-and-butter cucumbers, but by the time cucumber season finished I was quite happy to leave them un-opened.  By the time I [...]

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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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Lunchbox Peach Sbrisoletta

November 22, 2010

Early season peaches are just coming into season here.  I don’t really grow stonefruit – we are smack bang in fruit fly territory and it’s just too much work.  I have a couple of volunteer seedling peach trees though, and although most years the birds, possums, and flying foxes get most of the fruit,  the [...]

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Albanian Style Snapper, Squid, and Spring Vegetable Soup

November 18, 2010

We stopped in at a fish shop on the way home from visiting our daughter at the coast yesterday.  I had just bought a half kilo of squid, thinking calamari, when I noticed they had snapper frames at a ridiculously low price. Snapper are listed as a sustainable catch, and I like the idea that, [...]

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