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Baby Shower Shortbread Cookies

BABY SHOWER SHORTBREAD COOKIES

I made these shortbread cookies for a friend’s baby shower. Her baby (a girl!) is due anytime when I write this and we can’t wait to welcome her in our little circle of friends. The baby shower colours were pink and yellow, so I decided to make some ducks, some baby clothes and bottles in…

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Pumpkin gnocchi with butter and sage

PUMPKIN GNOCCHI WITH BUTTER AND SAGE

I love making flavoured gnocchi and these pumpkin gnocchi are particularly tasty.  They are actually made with a mix of potatoes and pumpkin, so they are as soft and pillowy as potato gnocchi, with a hint of pumpkin flavour and colour.  Don’t they look beautiful?  I like to make these especially in autumn/winter when pumpkins…

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Cannelloni al pesto

CANNELLONI AL PESTO

Today I am going to share with you the last of the recipes that I provided to my fellow Daring Cooks for this month’s challenge.  It is another one of my favourites as I love pesto and making cannelloni with it takes this dish to a new dimension!  I have also shown them how to…

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Rooibos tea and Lavender Sorbet

ROOIBOS TEA AND LAVENDER SORBET

And it is time again for the “Secret recipe club” reveal! I am sure you all know what the club is about, but for the few of you who still don’t know about it, here goes a brief explanation.  Each month you are assigned a participating food blogger to make a recipe from and in…

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Cannelloni di magro

CANNELLONI DI MAGRO

If you have read yesterday’s post, you will know that I am hosting this month’s challenge at the Daring Cooks!  I chose to challenge my fellow daring cooks to make Italian Cannelloni from scratch, including fresh pasta and sauces!  I also shared 4 different recipes with them and I am also going to share them…

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Cannelloni

THE DARING COOKS’ JUNE 2012 CHALLENGE: CANNELLONI

Manu from Manu’s Menu was our Daring Cooks lovely June hostess and has challenged us to make traditional Italian cannelloni from scratch! We were taught how to make the pasta, filling, and sauces shared with us from her own and her family’s treasured recipes! WHAT??  Yes, you read that right!!!  I was this month’s hostess…

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Papri Chaat

PAPRI CHAAT

So, here you have it!  Today I am sharing with you the recipe of our favourite Indian chaat: papri chaat.  As I wrote in my post on Sev, chaats are snacks served with chutneys (typically Hari chutney and Tamarind chutney) and spices.  It is a very common street food that is sold from carts all…

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Sev

SEV

I always talk about our favourite Indian restaurant in Sydney (Abhi’s), but there is another place that we love to go to.  It is called Billu’s Indian Eatery and we like to go there on weekends when they serve some of the food we enjoy the most: Indian street food.  They have some of the best…

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Gnocchi alla sorrentina

GNOCCHI ALLA SORRENTINA

This week’s Regional Italian dish comes from Campania and more precisely from Sorrento.  I am sure that all of you have heard of this beautiful coastal village, which is renowned for its world famous lemons (from which the best limoncello is made).  I would love to share with you the recipe for limoncello, but as…

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Garlic Naan

GARLIC NAAN

Naan is my favourite Indian bread… and I always order garlic Naan when we eat out.  My girls love it too (they are both bread lovers) and as I have been baking much more bread since I started blogging, I had to try and make these at home.  I have to say that they came…

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Hari Chutney

HARI CHUTNEY

I have a couple of Indian recipes coming up for you in the next few days. Today I want to start with a basic chutney, one that can be used in many dishes and chances are, if you have ever eaten at an Indian restaurant, you have eaten this with some tandoori dish. It is…

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Sopaipillas con pebre

SOPAIPILLAS CON PEBRE Y PASADAS

It is time again for the “Secret recipe club” reveal!  I am sure you all know what the club is about, but for the few of you who still don’t know about it, here goes a brief explanation.  It is a great concept… each month you are assigned a participating food blogger to make a…

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Asparagus Risotto with Raspadüra

ASPARAGUS RISOTTO WITH RASPADÜRA

Today I want to share with you the recipe for a risotto I made a little while ago.  I think it it the perfect spring dish.  I know that many of my readers are in the northern hemisphere (and I still have trouble adjusting to the fact that May is autumn down here!), so I…

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Rose Lassi

ROSE LASSI

Today is Mother’s Day!!!  I will be celebrating this special occasion with my family and we will have lunch at our favourite Indian restaurant, Abhi’s Indian Restaurant about which I wrote a review a few months ago.  One thing that we will surely have is lassi.  My girls LOVE mango lassi and that’s the thing they…

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Roasted Tomato, Rocket and Macadamia Salad

ROAST TOMATO, ROCKET AND MACADAMIA SALAD

This is the salad I served as one of the sides for my “Come have some Aussie tucker, mate!” party for Foodbuzz 24×24.  It is one of those salads with fancy names that you could easily see on a café menu, yet it is very easy and quick to make at home.  These are the…

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Mini Vegemite and Cheese Sandwiches

MINI VEGEMITE AND CHEESE SANDWICHES

Vegemite is probably the most iconic Australian product.  Wiki describes it as “a dark brown Australian food paste made from yeast extract.  […]  Vegemite is made from used brewers’ yeast extract, a by-product of beer manufacturing, various vegetables, wheat and spice additives. It is salty, slightly bitter, and umami or malty – similar to beef bouillon.” …

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Savoury Zucchini Muffins

SAVOURY ZUCCHINI MUFFINS

I must confess that while I am (still) pretty successful feeding vegetables to my 2 year old, I more often fail with my almost 5 year old.  She is such a fussy eater, so when I saw this recipe I could not resist it and made it immediately: it was a success!  I LOVE savoury…

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SPAGHETTI WITH CHERRY TOMATOES AND ANCHOVIES

Yes!  Finally I get to share with you a spaghetti recipe!  Strangely enough, I seldom do… I think it must be because for an Italian, spaghetti are a staple and I tend to forget how delicious they are.  This is a very simple yet delicious recipe for one of the tastiest spaghetti sauces ever.  Like…

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Eggplant & Tri-colour Goat Cheese Mille-feuille on Couscous

EGGPLANT & TRI-COLOUR GOAT CHEESE MILLE-FEUILLE ON COUSCOUS

Our April 2012 Daring Cooks hosts were David & Karen from Twenty-Fingered Cooking. They presented us with a very daring and unique challenge of forming our own recipes by using a set list of ingredients! Sounds easy, uh?  Well… sort of… at least until I read the lists!  Here they go: List 1: Parsnips, Eggplant…

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Rotisserie potatoes

ROTISSERIE POTATOES

These potatoes make a great side dish, especially for chicken.  I love to make them when we eat chicken wings and they are always a hit together.  Who doesn’t love roasted potatoes?  And the mix of spices in this recipe is hearty, slightly smoked and full of flavour.  Another quick and easy recipe for a…

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Caponata

CAPONATA

After sharing with you the recipe for cabbuci, today I am back with the second part of my Italian Regional dish series.  We are back in Sicily and I am going to show you how to make one of the most popular dishes of the island: caponata.  It could be described as a cooked salad…

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Busiati with Herbs, Pistachio pesto and crunchy Zucchini

BUSIATI WITH HERBS, PISTACHIO PESTO AND CRUNCHY ZUCCHINI

I noticed that I haven’t shared many pasta recipes lately… and for an Italian food blogger that’s bad!  Oh so bad!  So, today I am going to make it up to you with a special post that is very good for you!  My dear friend Cì from Il Mondo di Cì informed me of a…

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