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  • Simple White Bread

    This very easy bread recipe is from Doris Brett’s fabulous Australian Bread Book. She describes it as a “no-frills bread… simple, but remarkably tasty, with a lot of body.” It’s a very fast and high riser, which is excellent if you’re in a bit of a hurry. It also makes lovely bread rolls as well…

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  • Sweet Potato & Lentil Soup

    I tend to be rather impressionistic when making soups, so this won’t be a very detailed recipe. It’s also a simpliflied, Sunday afternoon recipe, using canned lentils to reduce the cooking time. This is a very solid soup/stew, with a lovely flavour after being simmered for an hour or two, and absolutely filled with vegies.…

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  • Weekday Lunch – Pumpkin & Feta Scroll

    This simple scroll is a pleasant alternative to a traditional sandwich, made on flat bread. If I wasn’t having anything else with it, I would add more vegetables, but it’s much easier to roll and transport with minimal ingredients inside. 1 large circle of flatbread 2 big spoonfuls roasted pumpkin pesto feta cheese spread avocado…

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  • Honey & Raspberry Muffins

    These pleasantly light muffins were made for a brunch, and were an excellent morning muffin – not too sweet, not too rich. I used Manuka honey in these, which is very strong, but you need a nice strong tasting honey for the taste to come out in the finished product. An incredibly simple recipe, this…

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  • Classic Cheese Souffle

    Prior to baking this, I had actually never made or even eaten a souffle before, but for some reason I had written it down as one of the 25 things I wanted to do before I turned 25. I bought the souffle dish some time ago, in preparation for fulfilling this goal, but then it…

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  • Christmas Pudding Icecream

    This is a recipe really only suited to the Southern Hemisphere Christmas, but how well suited to our weather it is. This is perfect to have after Christmas lunch – the familiar spices and fruits of a traditional Christmas pudding mixed up in a very easy creamy homemade icecream. 600 g cream 1 cup icing…

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  • Chocolate Cookies with Pine Nuts

    This recipe is from Lucullian Delights, and although I had a little trouble with the quantities of ingredients, it’s a lovely rich chocolate biscuit, with surprisingly little work involved. I thought pine nuts were an unusual nut to use in a sweet biscuit, but they work very well. I’d recommend doubling the recipe amount here,…

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  • Lime Sugar Cookies

    This lovely recipe is from SDD – The Food Blog, and a very lovely buttery limey concoction it is – a very summery cookie, and perfect for this time of year. My cookies were even more buttery than the recipe intends, as I accidently used 250 grams instead of 210. I used bottled lime juice,…

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  • Spiced Up Ginger Cookies

    Part One of my great Christmas Baking Extravaganza – these gorgeous chewy little ginger cookies. This recipe is from Baking Sheet, and they turned out really well (I made a couple of small substitutions). They were gorgeous five minutes out of the oven – a crisp crunch of sugar on the outside, warm chewy ginger…

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  • Carrot and Raisin Muffins

    These delicious, lightly sweet muffins are perfect for breakfast or morning tea, have a million variations to be experimented with, and are delicious on their own, or spread with butter, depending on your taste for decadence. Another recipe from the excellent Diana Linfoot’s Muffin Magic. 3 eggs 1/2 cup sugar or honey 1/2 vegetable oil…

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