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Tag Archives: Summer
Update on the Jamie challenge
As I mentioned in my new years post, Mr Bee and I are working our way through Jamie Oliver’s 15 minute meals, cooking one recipe each a week. We’re having so much fun. It adds quite an amount of novelty … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast, Dinner, Food, Inspiration
Tagged Australia, Book, Cooking, Dinner, Food, Inspiration, Recipe, Summer
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Lemon, ginger, mint and honey refresher
This summer, much of Australia has been plunged into heatwave after heatwave. It’s been so hot that the Bureau of Meteorology has needed to add extra colours to its temperature graphs to show how high the temperatures are reaching. And … Continue reading
Posted in Drinks, Environment, Food, Recipe
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Drinks, Environment, Food, Fruit, Lemons, Make your own, Recipe, Summer, Vegetarian
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Summer meals at Chez Bee
Yes the prawn and smoked salmon meals with home-made tartare were delicious but what has me all excited are the quinoa patties. I’ve never cooked with quinoa before and man, were these scrummy. They are a Bill Granger recipe out … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Food
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Dinner, Food, Summer, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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My new toy
We bought an ice cream maker. The first batch was chocolate and I was far too concerned with enjoying it to even think about taking a photo. It was quite possibly the best chocolate ice cream I have ever eaten. … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Make your own
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Dessert, Food, Fruit, ice cream, Make your own, Spring, Summer
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A farmers’ market cornucopia: preserving those tomatoes
I’ve finally made my way through most of my box of tomatoes. Let me show you all the goodies I’ve made…. Tomato sauce/ketchup. This stuff is to die for and the original reason why I snapped up the box, but … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Local, Make your own, Uncategorized
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Farmer's market, Farmers' markets, Local food, Make your own, Organic, Preserving, Summer, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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A farmers’ market cornucopia: tomatoes
The last week or so it’s been raining and raining and raining. Signficant parts of the state have been flooded (and other states too). And the tomatoes don’t like the rain much either. So at the farmers market this morning … Continue reading
Posted in A farmers' market cornucopia, Food, Make your own
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Farmer's market, Farmers' markets, Floods, Food, Make your own, Preserving, Summer, Tomatoes, Vegetables
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A farmers’ market cornucopia: February 2012
These photos are from a trip to my local farmers’ market in mid-February. I like that I am now starting to get a selection of seasonal snapshots of what we are eating at different times of the year. You can … Continue reading
Posted in A farmers' market cornucopia, Food, Local, Snapshot
Tagged Australia, Farmer's market, Food, Fruit, Local, Local food, Organic, Summer, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Yoghurt
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