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Mandarins

by Peter G July 30, 2009 Recipes

It’s been a fairly hectic number of weeks and I really have had no time to post. I’ m trying to catch up and hopefully I’ll get there! Anyway, you’re probably wondering what mandarins have got to do with anything? Well not much! I’m just ejoying them at the moment as they are plentiful. And I don’t have a recipe for them…(but I do have a recipe coming up for [...]

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Baked Apples “Baklava”

by Peter G June 3, 2009 Greek Food

Apples are everywhere at the moment. I love this time of the year as there are so many to choose from! I spotted these beautiful “Golden Delicious” variety the other week and knew I wanted to play around with them as soon as I got them home. (You know me!) I was planning a dinner party for the weekend and I wanted to present a low fat option for dessert. [...]

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Greek Yoghurt Panna Cotta with Poached Prunes

by Peter G May 28, 2009 Recipes

It’s been a few weeks! But I’m here today and ready to showcase a wonderful and simple dessert I prepared a little while back. With all the rain and grey skies present I thought I would cheer up my mood (and my friends) with something “pretty in pink”. Nothing wrong with admitting you like pink, by the way! Add some simple flowers to the equation and voila! Instant cheer. I’m [...]

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Wonderful Watermelon Salad

by Peter G March 30, 2009 Greek Food

This post is probably a few months too late…sort of. I actually had planned on blogging about this earlier, but I have been on a very busy schedule that I totally forgot about this recipe. This is a very quick and tasty salad made with watermelon that is at its sweetest. I actually saw a recipe for this in a summer edition of Australian Gourmet Traveller and knew I had [...]

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Blackberry Jam

by Peter G January 21, 2009 Recipes

Sorry but this is another “summer fruit” post! I’ve had this in my backlog of recipes and I really wanted to share it with you. I promise there will be some savoury stuff soon. What I like about this recipe is how easy and quick it is. Because I’ve been going mad buying all sorts of berries and stone fruits I ended up with way too many and I thought [...]

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Blueberry Pikelets

by Peter G January 17, 2009 Recipes

When I woke up this morning I was in the mood for pancakes. Drizzled with a load of maple syrup and lashings of creamed butter. Then I remembered I was trying to be “good”. I played around with the concept and decided to make pikelets. Pikelets are plumper than pancakes, made using a thick batter. I used wholemeal flour and a little Greek yogurt amongst other things. I was in [...]

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Stone Fruit Galette

by Peter G January 5, 2009 Recipes

I hope everyone saw the new year in well and enjoyed their holidays. Mine was a little quiet spent celebrating with friends, eating and drinking a few bottles of champagne. Sydney put on it’s usual fireworks display spending up to $5 million for the spectacle. Anyway, I’ve been visiting a few of my regular blogs and been reading a lot of the goals some of you have set out for [...]

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Blueberry Cream Pies and Strawberry Lemonade

by Peter G December 12, 2008 Recipes

Best Friend: Don’t forget the kid’s Xmas party on Sat…remember you said you were going to make something “festive” Me: Sure..not a problem (hmm…what on earth is she on about?) Best friend: and don’t overdo the sugar! Me: Yeah..ok (so I suppose red cordial is out of the question!) So I find myself committed to helping out at a children’s Christmas party which of course I had bookmarked but totally [...]

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Summer Fruits

by Peter G December 5, 2008 Recipes

I’ve been a little absent from blogging lately. I’ve been trying to sort out some issues in regards to my travel arrangements. Let’s just say it’s a good idea to have more than 6 months validity left on your passport when you travel!!! Anyway, I won’t bore you with that. I want to talk about all the summer fruits I’ve spotted lately. I love this time of the year. The [...]

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Tea Cake with a Sticky Tangelo Syrup

by Peter G August 20, 2008 Recipes

Aaaah! I gave in! After eating enough tangelos to last me a life time, I still had many leftover. There they were, on the counter, staring at me in their big brown bowl. I didn’t want to complicate things very much and I honestly thought about making a jam or a marmalade with the tangelos, but I just couldn’t muster the energy to sterilise jars etc… So I cheated [...]

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Tangelos

by Peter G August 18, 2008 Recipes

I take my citrus seriously. Seriously! My latest farmers market haul included the usual winter goodies of oranges, lemons and tangelos. It had been ages since I had eaten tangelos and I really wanted to share my experience with them with you. They’re a cross between an orange and a grapefruit, full of juicy goodness. They look like an orange, shaped like a grapefruit but taste like a tangerine. Very [...]

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Tropical Fruit Cups

by Peter G May 2, 2008 Recipes

One, two or three! What do you do when you have leftover ingredients from the Joust? And a fridge full of unused fruit? You make fruit salad! Or as “modern” publications call them….Fruit Cups. It’s funny how the food language gets transformed with each generation. Seriously though, its a good way to increase your fruit intake. And we all know how important it is to eat fruit everyday. It [...]

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Banana Jam

by Peter G April 13, 2008 Recipes

Pixie from “You Say Tomatoh, I Say Tomayto” and Rosie from “Rosie Bakes, A Peace Of Cake” are holding a food blogging event titled “Putting Up”. These lovely lasses are asking for us to submit recipes relating to home made preserves, jams, jellies, curds, butters etc… I recently had the pleasure of making my first curd using passionfruit. It was received with wonderful success and I enjoyed using it in [...]

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Thank Yous and…Baked Figs

by Peter G February 27, 2008 Recipes

I only realised the other day that I had officially forgotten to thank Ivy on my own blog, for giving me an “excellent Blog” award. Oops! I’m so sorry for that. I know I left a comment in your comments section but I realised I hadn’t done that here. Thank you again and it is really nice to be appreciated. All the other bloggers that I would have liked to [...]

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Passionfruit Curd

by Peter G February 4, 2008 Recipes

Passionfruit Whilst I was at the markets recently I picked up a whole box of passionfruit. The colours and aromas were so intense I had to just get it. So after spooning it on my breakfast cereal every morning, I still had half a box left. “What will I do with the rest?” I thought. So a good deal of “research” later i.e. scanning cook books and magazines, I saw [...]