January 2012
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Honeycomb Ice-Cream
This little number has been long anticipated around our house after the arrival of a ‘surprise’ ice-cream machine for Christmas. Idea after idea for ice-cream designs floated around in our heads for weeks until it all kind of just fizzled out. Until today. Today was the day that heaven froze over.
Ice-cream is so simple and easy, it’s ridiculous. I have never been a big...
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Traditional Anzac Biscuits
Australia Day. A day of nation-wide relaxation, celebration, inebriation and flag-waving. A day who most of us are completely ignorant of it’s origins or purpose. As far as my knowledge extends, all I can say is that I am almost certain that Anzac biscuits are not traditionally Australia day fare. Instead they are reserved specifically for the Anzacs, those bloody fine men who have given us...
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Indian-Inspired Vegetable Curry
This is a curry made completely from scratch using an assortment of aromatic spices. Such things as herbs and spices, garlic and ginger, give dishes hearty, rich, flavours without using an overload of salt or salt-derived products (such as soy sauce, fish sauce etc etc.). Also, by making your meals from scratch, rather than using products and sauces found on supermarket shelves, you can control...
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The Believe-it-or-Not Healthy Baked Cheesecake...
This cheesecake really tapped into my bordering-on-insane creative streak. It started off in my head as a cheesecake, as well as a chocolate cake, but then the chocolate cake kind of randomly evolved into the idea for a chocolate base. And then there was no turning back.
I have always had the idea for an alternative filling for the traditional ‘cheese’cake, but have never got...
