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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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Potatoes…… Potatoes are the weekly challenge in our veggie box. After years of two pommie English parents feeding me potatoes at every meal and Darryl’s naturopath telling us potatoes were acidic, we like to avoid them. Not good with wastage…

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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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This recipe comes from Bec, who picks up from our Paddington City Cousin.

I just made a very tasty soup from this week’s Gourmet box, and I’d like to share the recipe with you.  First of all, THANK YOU for all…

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Here are a couple of recipes I used last week. We seemed to have a glut of green capsicums, sweet potatoes and onions. Now they are all gone!
First I made a simple relish from the green capsicums and onions –…

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Have you recently received an abundance of apples and pears? Are you interested in a way of using them for a savoury dish? Here’s my recipe for hot apple chutney. I used it to accompany BBQ roast pork and steamed…

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