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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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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