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Triple ginger cake

3 May 2012 Cakes
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Every so often the other half bakes one of the most glorious cakes I’ve eaten. Over the years this recipe has evolved into being more moist and even more gingery thanks to someones heavy-handling with three types of ginger. Crystalised, fresh and dried. Combined they make for a tongue-tingling spicy cake darkened with blackstrap molasses. [...]

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Grah {beans}

25 April 2012 Croatian
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Peasant food is something I will always surrender a bit of time for, especially when it comes to the peasant food from my parents home country, Croatia. When they left what was then Yugoslavia as young adults, my parents would have been trembling with excitement and fear as the plane touched down on Australian soil. [...]

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Hot cross buns

5 April 2012 Recipes
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I’ve taken a step away from the ordinary with these hot cross buns by using the recipe from my previous challah buns. They’re a bit lighter in texture when compared to your regular hot cross buns and when baked in tins like I’ve done, they’re a bit cute as well. This is probably not one [...]

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Not quite challah

29 March 2012 Jewish
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For those that don’t know, a challah is a braided bread usually served on Sabbath. It’s a similar bread to brioche and I’ve stepped away from the traditional methods by adding spices and using jaggery and poppy seeds. Rather than faff around with complicated braiding I’ve just rolled strips of the dough into poppy seeds [...]

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Palacinke sa smoke {pancakes with figs}

15 March 2012 Croatian
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I reckon one of my earliest memories, way back when I only spoke Croatian, was tucking into warm and freshly made palacinke (crêpes) sprinkled with sugar and drizzled with fresh lemon juice. Fifteen years later, during my apprenticeship, I spent a good 2 hours every afternoon flipping the dreaded things for the trade that evening. I solemnly swore to [...]

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Hamantashen

7 March 2012 Cookies
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The Jewish festival of Purim falls on 8 March and one of the traditional things to make, and eat, are these little triangular cookies that are filled with a sweet centre. A hamantash supposedly symbolises the defeated enemy of the Jewish people, resembling the hat or ears of Haman (depends who you talk to), the [...]

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Fotelje {couches}

29 February 2012 Cookies
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This little treat is something I grew up with and have fond memories of enjoying when I was very young. I still remember the time I was around 10 years old when visiting my brothers god parents house and sneaking into one of the rooms that was used primarily as cake and cookie storage. Talk [...]

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Saltenosses

22 February 2012 Dessert
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The first I heard of saltenosses was when talking with a man in his 80′s about the food he ate as a youngster. His mother used to make these for him many years ago, when he referred to them as being salty noses. I immediately began looking online for these Jewish dumplings and came away [...]

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