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Janet Giles
Apr 10, 20202 min read
Orecchiette with Kohlrabi and Kale
Kohlrabi is such a weird vegetable. It comes for Germany but it's found in recipes in Cyprus, Sicily, the northern part of Vietnam,...
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Janet Giles
Apr 10, 20202 min read
Weed pie
If ever there was a dish that epitomises siege food, it's weed pie. Versions of this dish are made in kitchens all over the world and...
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Janet Giles
Apr 10, 20202 min read
Curly Kale
We delved into our delivered mystery box exclaiming at the freshness, seasonality and variety.... but curly kale....... really?..........
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Janet Giles
Apr 5, 20202 min read
From the Salento with Love
Ciceri e Tria It's a good time to cook something tricky and slow. I have wanted for some time to perfect a dish from the Salento, the...
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Janet Giles
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The Veggie Box Cometh!
The good people at Cafe Troppo are delivering veggie boxes of seasonal vegetables for their bio-dynamic food and wine supplier in the...
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Janet Giles
Apr 5, 20201 min read
Freakin Freekah
Because we are shopping at Cafe Troppo, we have discovered some new ingredients to which we previously turned up our noses as "hippy...
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Janet Giles
Apr 5, 20201 min read
Fry up Calabrian Style
When red capsicums are piled up in market stalls holding the last of the summer heat in their shiny wrinkles I grab them for this simple...
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Janet Giles
Apr 4, 20201 min read
An Old Boiled Dinner
It's the weekend and a quick dash to the supermarket resulted in Raffaele bringing back a bag of corned beef. I grew up with this...
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Janet Giles
Apr 4, 20202 min read
A touch of Ottolenghi
The last of the summer vegetables come with the last of the summer evenings and this inspires me to cook my old favourite Turkish bean...
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Janet Giles
Apr 4, 20201 min read
Raffaele's Perfect Caesar
This has always been a stand by on a week night when we are tired and don't have much energy. That's when my husband Raffaele makes us a...
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Janet Giles
Apr 4, 20201 min read
Finding an old friend
It was a combination of the veggies left in the fridge, spices in the cupboard and streaming TV that led me back to an old favourite dish...
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Janet Giles
Mar 23, 20202 min read
Staying alive - a story of adaption
Cafe Troppo, our local cafe is one of our favourite spots on a Friday night. It's where neighbours and friends gather over wine and...
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Janet Giles
Mar 21, 20201 min read
Simple and local food for a siege
From where we sit in the world, in the south of the south of the globe, it seemed we would be spectators, not participants in the global...
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