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Spiced Honey Cake Recipe
Spiced Honey Cake Recipe Words, recipe and images by Yasmin Shenhav Yasmin Shenhav of Sunny Side Up, shares with us her recipe for Spiced Honey Cake. This is something she makes every year to celebrate the tradition of Jewish New Year. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, has many food-related traditions. We celebrate the...
Puff Pastry Pizza
Puff Pastry Pizza By Jennifer Curcio I love simple, quick and flavoursome mid-week meal options and this is one of our favourites. Every few weeks we make a version of this Puff Pastry Pizza and serve it with a few fresh sides to balance out the indulgence of the pastry. The version I’ve...
Melbourne Food Orders for Good (during lockdown)
Photo by Spencer Davis on Unsplash Melbourne Food Orders for Good A round-up of stay-at-home meals and food initiatives that support those impacted by Melbourne’s current lockdown. by Jennifer Curcio Melbourne has reinvented itself under lockdown. Market Lane’s roastery in East Brunswick now has a coffee bean vending machine, chefs normally making food are baking...
Creamy potato salad with tarragon & caper berries
Creamy potato salad with tarragon and caper berries This potato salad is a variation on something I grew up with. Mum would make a simple potato salad with olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper, with the occasional guest appearance of parsley and sometimes mayonnaise. Mayonnaise for me is a must and so is vinegar but...
Nonna’s wild fennel and roasted chestnut soup
Nonna’s wild fennel and roasted chestnut soup This is my Nonna’s wild fennel and roasted chestnut soup which I wrote about in this story for SBS Food. This recipe, shared with me by my mother which we recorded together, was something her mother, my Nonna, used to make during the cold winters in Sardinia. Some notes...
Miranda Mills – Foodie Profile
Miranda Mills – Foodie Profile Miranda Mills is a writer, bibliophile, ex-Londoner and the host of the Tea and Tattle Podcast. She also runs Miranda’s Notebook and Miranda’s Bookcase. Miranda, you wear many hats, running the Tea & Tattle podcast, as well as Miranda’s Notebook and Miranda’s Bookcase. Could you share a little bit about...
Tomato risoni/orzo with dill and mozzarella
Tomato risoni /orzo with dill and mozzarella Risoni or orzo as it is also called, is a type of pasta that I associate fondly with my childhood. It was stirred through milk soups or made with a quick broth and I always found it filling and comforting. Now of course, the dish has come full...
Beetroot patties with horseradish cream by Alissa Timoshkina
Beetroot patties with horseradish cream recipe by Alissa Timoshkina – image credit Lizzie Mayson Beetroot patties with horseradish cream recipe by Alissa Timoshkina My beetroot patties (or bite size falafel type fritters), have their roots in a very basic Soviet-era canteen dish which I have jazzed up a little with walnuts, garlic and dill....
Russian Dukkah by Alissa Timoshkina
Russian Dukkah by Alissa Timoshkina – image credit Lizzie Mayson Russian Dukkah by Alissa Timoshkina This is my own experiment that turned into a super simple recipe for what I call a Russian dukkah. It’s a mix of seeds and spices traditional in Eastern European cuisine (using the analogy of the Egyptian spice mix), and it works...
Alissa Timoshkina – Foodie Profile
Foodie Profile – Alissa Timoshkina Interview by Jennifer Curcio In this Foodie Profile we chat with London based cook, food writer, cookbook author and founder of the Kino Vino supper club, Alissa Timoshkina. She shares with us snapshots from her childhood, the inspiration behind her love of food, recipes from her esteemed cookbook Salt & Time,...
Melbourne sourdough bakeries doing deliveries & orders
Melbourne sourdough bakeries doing deliveries & orders By Jennifer Curcio Many Melbourne sourdough bakeries have had to adjust their business models fast due to the unforeseen challenges of COVID-19. From offering delivery services to creating or adjusting their websites to facilitate pre-orders and pick ups, Melbourne’s bakeries are seriously delivering the dough. In addition...
Soup Recipes – a Collection
Soup Recipes – a Collection In this collection I’ve rounded up all our soup recipes on the Decisive Cravings site. Find lighter broth style soups like chicken pho and mushroom tom yam, to heartier cream of spinach soup or Anja Dunk’s delightful and must-try Potato and Parsley Soup. For something quick to put together using...
