Category: too hard basket
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make your own thai curry paste
There are some perfectly good thai curry pastes in the supermarket these days but if you want to feel like a true culinary whiz there is nothing like heading to the markets and picking up the ingredients to make your own. It’s perfectly magical the transformation of ingredients from fresh produce to fragrant paste. So…
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seasonal food, hot cross buns
I love seasonal food. Mince Pies at Christmas, Haira at Ramadan*. There’s something about food that’s only available for a limited time that makes me crave it like crazy. I also love food that you can only get in certain places in the world – those turtle chocolates in Mexico, the white crunchie bar in…
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chocolate and peanut butter cookies
I get it. Cookies from scratch seem like a hell of a lot of effort when there’s a perfectly good packet of Tim Tams right there in the biscuit aisle. I get it. And sure, when you see how much butter and sugar goes into your average batch of cookies you risk being scared off…
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hollandaise sauce
There’s a window between around 25 December through to 25 January where my favourite post Christmas game is ‘#101 ways with ham’. When others are bemoaning yet another ham sandwich I’m thinking about a new and fabulous recipe for using ham leftovers in unique and creative (this is a sad but true story).
nibble & slurp 