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Recipe: Frangipane Custard Tarts with Fresh Summer Berries

Last week when I was dreaming up christmasy recipes, I originally wanted to make some sort of fruit tart or pie. I thought about making a healthier version of fruit mince pies, but it seemed to wintery (and we’re currently in summer here) and it seemed a shame to not takeÂ advantageÂ of the fresh summer fruit […]

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80+ Ways & Recipes To Use Milk Kefir

Got milk kefir and not sure how to use it? Here are 70+ ways & recipes to use it. Here are now 80+ ways to use milk kefir! Some things you should know: What kefir ? What are fermented foods? How to make milk kefir. Storing kefir for ripening & reducing lactose Kefirpedia There are a lot […]

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All About Kefir + A Recipe for Homemade Organic Kefir with Lemon Zest & Raspberries

What Is Kefir? Kefired milk (or Kefir; said as ke-fear), is the fermented dairy* product made from adding Kefir grains** (which are also known as Kefir; see picture above which shows kefir’s cauliflower-like appearance) into milk to ferment. The Kefir grains are a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast which exist on a structure of polysaccharide, protein, amino […]

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Why Animals To Be Eaten Must Be Killed: An Excerpt From The Colonial Cook Book, The First Published Australian Cookbook

In my new blog Creative Vintage Lover*, I spoke about my favourite vintage cookbook (currently anyway), which is The Colonial Cook Book: The Recipes Of a By-Gone Australia By Paul Hamlyn. It is a reprint (from 1970) of the “first published Australian cookÂ book”, originally published in 1864. As you can imagine it has a lot […]

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Recipe: Fermented Buckwheat Pancakes with Biodynamic Currants & Cultured Butter

Certain food preparations can help increase nutritional content of foods. Such food preparations include sprouting (see: sprouted wheat crepes, sprouted sunflower seeds, sprouted wheat cookies), soaking and fermenting (see: guest post on fermented foods, ) grains, nuts, seeds and legumes. These practices are all beneficial as they help to neutralize anti-nutrients as well as increase […]

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Kale Salad with Feta, Walnuts, Mandarin and Olives & Blood Orange Dressing

For all those kale lovers, here is another kale salad for you! This time I have added daisy mandarins to this salad, as these mandarins like other fruit, taste really good in salads! About the produce I used: The olives were bought from the Hurstbridge farmers market from Panton Hill Estate. The kale and daisy […]

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How To Make “Instant” Coconut Ice

It’s funny the awesome things you discover by accident! This was one of those very things! I had put my young thai coconuts into our bar fridge which didn’t seem cold enough at the time so I turned the dial down…then when I took the coconuts out of the fridge and cracked the coconuts open […]

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How To Be Time Savvy For Your Health (Or Healthy Meals To Prepare In Advance)

How to be Time Savvy for Your Health (or Healthy Meals to Prepare in advance) These days, its true to say that many of us are stretched for time, but we all need our good health to do what we need to do.So how fit in healthy food? By doing simple things to prepare our […]

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Recipe: Icey Whole Watermelon Juice

Here is a ‘whole fruit juice’ that you can make in your blender! Recipe: Icey Whole Watermelon Juice Ingredients: 1/4 watermelon cut into slices- rind kept on, but peel off the green part. water ice How to: In a blender combine the watermelon, water and ice and blend to a juice-like consistency. Serve your ‘whole fruit juice’ over extra […]

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Recipe: Slow-Cook Moroccan Pumpkin & Lentil Casserole

This is a really yummy and warming bean and vegetable bake! This picture doesn’t really do it justice. However I can tell you it was good! It is Vegan casserole because there are no animal products at all, which is great for those who don’t want to eat meat or just want to increase legumes and lentils […]