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Ingredients:

  • 1 medium unpeeled beetroot
  • 4 cups vegetable stock
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 ½ cups rice
  • 1 tbsp grated lemon zest
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp cracked black pepper

Cook the whole, unpeeled beetroot in boiling water until tender. When…

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This recipe comes from lifestylefood.com.au, and is absolutely delicious with the Brass Monkey Blue from Granite Belt Cheese (featured in next week’s cheese club).

Ingredients:

  • 3 medium carrots peeled
  • 2 whole beetroot
  • red wine vinegar
  • caster sugar
  • sea salt
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 bunch continental parsley
  • extra virgin…
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    Food Connect is now such a part of our lives that I couldn’t imagine not receiving our weekly box. We love knowing we are eating sustainably and our fruit and veg tastes SO yummy and nourishing!!! Thanks to all the…

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    As made by head chef and conversation team member Jyssica, and assistant chef Christine for Food Connect lunch.

    This recipe made about 2½ litres – enough to feed a hungry office and all the drivers returning from their deliveries on a…

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    This week’s recipe comes from www.jamieoliver.com. Jamie isn’t a Food Connect subscriber yet,  but we are positive that if he lived in Brisbane he would be! And we are pretty sure he wouldn’t mind us passing on this great calzone…

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    Hi guys,
    I just wanted to share with you one of our favourite recipes, and one of the few things I could reliably eat when I was pregnant with our daughter Wren. And with all these gorgeous sweet potatoes about I…

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