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Burgers: not quite In-N-Out, but our family's substitute.

While you can make burgers as simple as the basic recipe I am setting out here, you can add paremsan cheese, chopped flat leaf parsley,...

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Finders Keepers: Tuna Confit with braised beans, and celery salad from Alison Roman

With two lovely pieces of tuna in hand, I remembered recently seeing this recipe in her newsletter. Let me just say, it was the easiest...

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Mexican Pozole Soup

Ah, I love this - love that this yummy soup is sour and chilli hot, and hearty. I used this recipe an eon ago while writing the food...

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Eating with Artists: Illustrator Kia Hing Fay

From home base in Brisbane riverside Teneriffe, Kia Hing Fay is busy making intricate collages. PaperHang came to be as something Kia...

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Lockdown lazy: coconut biscuits

You could not make easier, quicker, more no fail biscuits than these. AND they are pretty good to eat. Crispy on the edges and chewy...

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Curry Puffs

First posted on August 20, 2012 Lovely chat with you late this morning Izzy, while I folded curry puffs in Sydney, and you made lunch in...

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A standard chicken curry for rainy nights.

I am cooking up a simple chicken curry. Such comfort, a chicken curry with potatoes and a thick gravy poured over steaming rice. A raita...

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Eating with Artists: Tom Polo

Tom Polo and I had been meaning to have a chat for Eating With Artists for a while. When you're as obliging as Tom is, but life includes...

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Making okonomiyaki and dreaming of Tokyo.

Wandering the streets of Tokyo late one night just before Christmas, we finally found the steamed up window of a hole-in-the-wall in a...

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Browsing in Burwood: eating our way through a Chinese outpost.

Lorrie and I had two goes exploring Burwood, the first time at the suggestion of foodie friends Susan and Edward and Gordon, the second...

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Lagoon Dining: an ode to Melbourne

On Lygon Street historically dominated by Italian cafes and restaurants, coffee and pastries, a quietly elegant SE Asian dining...

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Mothers Day Semolina Kayseri

To all our mums who gave us life and love, we honor you today. Here's a very simple South Indian sweet snack my mum made often. It...

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A little adventure at Strathfield's Koreatown on The Boulevarde.

My lovely friend Lyn was in town so Lorrie and I whisked her along for a quick visit around The Boulevarde at Strathfield to investigate...

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Eating with Artists: Los Angeles returned artist Paul Davies

With Covid keeping us firmly grounded, the colourful images that are Paul Davies' work evoke a deep sense of nostalgia, and are these...

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Three questions: Momofuku Seibo's Chef Samantha Alice Levett

When Oz Harvest's wonderful charity drive Oz Harvest Bites announced they had Momofuku Seibo's Sami Levett cooking, my heart healed just...

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Adventures at Harris Park

Harris Park is only 19 km from the heart of Sydney, part of Greater Wester Sydney and lying right alongside downtown Parramatta. Known...

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Comfort in Congee

After my parents passed away, the trips to visit them in Kuala Lumpur ended, and so did bowlfuls of congee for breakfast. For me, missing...

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Nanna's eggplant curry

When we're together, there's always a request for Nanna's eggplant curry. It is an anomaly, not really fitting into any category for...

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Finders Keepers: Charmaine Solomon's Szechuan Fried Chicken

I am a complete sucker for fried chicken. Any version: Southern, Korean, Japanese, in a burger, with a salad, on top of hot chips, or...

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Eating with Artists: Leo Greenfield

After a week of pelting rain, the clouds parted for artist Leo Greenfield and me to meet under the graceful Port Jackson trees at Bodhi...

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Stumbling upon treasure: meet Diamond, a passionate cook.

If you met on the street, you'd think she was an athlete. An energy hard to contain, with a physique to match, Diamond is, in fact a...

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Eating with Artists:Chun Yin Rainbow Chan

The chameleon like pop music and multi-disciplinarian artist Rainbow Chan is in the house. Coming across her on the local music station...

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Apple pastries in a jiffy

Apparently apples are absolutely prime at Prickle Hill Produce right now. From the boxes of goodies that are delivered each week, I...

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Pasta with Spicy Vodka sauce

Isabel, here's my version of this recipe- can you please send me yours? There are many versions out there, but the one I favour the most...

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