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Roasted Tomato and Garlic Soup

Delicious and easy - and barely takes any effort.

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Kale and Feta Pie

Super simple and kind of healthy - if you like kale chips then you’ll love this.

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Quickie Chicken Laksa

This is my go to comfort food dish especially when there is leftover roast chicken in the fridge.

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Beetroot Relish

You can have this relish whipped up in the time it takes to cook and prepare the rest of the burger.

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Cornmeal Pancakes

These are a little bit different to your bog standard pancake and go great with any savoury toppings - although they taste wonderful with Golden Syrup drizzled on them as well!

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Oreo Cookie & Peanut Butter Tart

The first thing you’ll need to do is make sure you have enough people around to help you eat this. It’s like a huuuuuuge Reese’s Peanut Butter cup!

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Blue Tentacles

Catching a glimpse of an octopus lit up in blue at the Melbourne Aquarium.

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Pelicans

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Recipe: Sweet Potato Fries

You really need the Western type of sweet potato or yam for this - unfortunately Japanese sweet potatoes (satsumaimo) have the wrong texture. Of course you can do those sweet wedges with satsumaimo sprinkled with black sesame seeds…. a recipe for another day.

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Black, white and extremely lucky

Maggie, a very affectionate Border Collie, survives a horrific ordeal to be reunited with my stepmother.

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Recipe: Silken Tofu & Chocolate Mousse

After a quick chat with some people about lactose-intolerance I remembered I hadn’t posted this mostly dairy free chocolate mousse. Of course if you use dairy free chocolate it will be totally dairy free. Looking forward to making this for my lactose-intolerant chocolate mousse loving brother!

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Ladder in the Round

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Recipe: Pumpkin Cauliflower Soup

Cauliflower blends up really nicely - although I’ll never be convinced it can replace mashed potato - it does make a fab soup.

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Recipe: Renkon Chips

Delicious and too easy to make! Not especially healthy of course but then what chips are?

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A Trip To A Shrine

In Japan it’s more common to go to a shrine than be nursing a hangover on New Years Day. I’m only accidentally buddhist - but not starting off the year feeling like crap is actually nice. Also there is fresh warm taiyaki involved.

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Starting Off The Year On The Right Stomach

Overview of this year’s osechi ryori! Pretty damn tasty I admit. Recipes to come soon!

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An Experiment In Pie Crusts

I’ve been searching for healthier pie crusts alternatives to the usual flaky pastry! think this one turned out quite successfully!

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Lemon and Dill Jelly

This is one of those elements that sounds tricky and fanciful, but is actually pretty quick and easy.

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Roasted Red Capsicum Hummus

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Spinach Rice Croquettes

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quake 5:08 pm

5 in Fukushima. 3 across Tokyo, Chiba & Kanagawa. No tsunami warning.

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