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Strawberry Cloud Cake

by Peter G Recipes

I hope you all had a great start to 2012. I say “let’s get straight into it”. My second last post last year , saw me attending a pre Xmas celebration where I took along a strawberry cloud cake. I promised a blog post on this no-bake wonder and here it is! I first came across this unusually named dessert whilst watching a cooking program on the ABC here in [...]

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Mini Pavlovas with Poached Figs and Greek Yoghurt

by Peter G Greek Food

Xmas decorations up? Check House cleaned? Check Presents all wrapped? Check Xmas menu worked out? Um…sort of.  Surprisingly, for someone who cooks a lot I always have trouble deciding what to prepare. I change my mind every day! And I think a lot of that has to do with the weather at the moment. My Xmas lunch won’t be anything “spectacular”. Nor do I have the inclination to invite long [...]

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Baked Cake Doughnuts

by Peter G Recipes

What do the weather, these black and white pictures and my recipe for baked cake doughnuts have in common?  Let me explain…For the most part of last week the rain had been relentless.  It would shower briefly and all of a sudden it would turn into a downpour!  Along with the howling winds, the

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“Baklava” Ice Cream Sandwiches

by Peter G Greek Food

After making the cinnamon ice cream I wanted to push the envelope a little further by having a go at making ice cream sandwiches.  These were not going to be any ordinary ice cream sandwiches though.  I wanted to apply my “Greek touch” to the whole process.  For quite a while I had wanted to incorporate the flavours of baklava

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Cinnamon Ice Cream

by Peter G Recipes

Who remembers the ice cream vans that used to come around the neighbourhood in the early summer evenings?  That familiar siren with its hypnotic beat could make any child stop whatever they were doing. It would bring hoards of us to the van and for twenty cents you could walk away with a double scoop of your favourite

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