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Pasta fagioli
Cooking, Recipes Guest User 9/10/22 Cooking, Recipes Guest User 9/10/22

Pasta fagioli

Pasta e fagioli - pasta and bean soup - is one of those simple Italian dishes that can be found the length and breadth of the country.

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Mushroom souffle
Cooking, Recipes Guest User 30/5/22 Cooking, Recipes Guest User 30/5/22

Mushroom souffle

Mushroom souffle is one of my there’s-not-much-in-the-fridge dishes - apart from mushrooms, milk, butter, cheese. And a good bottle of chardonnay or pinot noir.

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Cooking, Recipes Guest User 9/3/22 Cooking, Recipes Guest User 9/3/22

Tomato chutney

It may be too late in the season to make it now, but the recipe will keep.

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Cooking, Recipes Guest User 12/1/22 Cooking, Recipes Guest User 12/1/22

Orange (or lemon) drizzle cake

Lemon drizzle cake usually has a icing as well, but I prefer a dusting of icing sugar.

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Cooking, Recipes Guest User 7/1/22 Cooking, Recipes Guest User 7/1/22

Potato Salad

Potato salad has many versions. This is my latest.

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Cooking, Recipes Guest User 6/1/22 Cooking, Recipes Guest User 6/1/22

Sauerkraut and dried mushroom soup

An unusual soup, surprisingly refreshing, from a 19th century cookbook

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Cooking, Recipes Guest User 29/9/21 Cooking, Recipes Guest User 29/9/21

Not nicoise salad

This is my go-to salad, made with what’s in the house.

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Cooking, Recipes 9/9/21 Cooking, Recipes 9/9/21

Carrot soup

In 2020, during an early lockdown, I was asked to devise recipes to suit the Thursday concerts on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.

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Cooking, Recipes 9/9/21 Cooking, Recipes 9/9/21

Spinach and ricotta gnocchi

One of my favourite dishes – to eat, and to cook. It’s a bit fiddly, which has made it perfect for lockdown cooking.

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Seville Orange Marmalade
Cooking, Recipes 9/9/21 Cooking, Recipes 9/9/21

Seville Orange Marmalade

Years ago, when I first started making marmalade, I worried that the commercial crops of Seville oranges would disappear.

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What’s Rita cooking? Chicken tagine with preserved lemon. There should have been olives too but I forgot to add them. Still a good dish to eat! Served with couscous and broccoli. #whatsritacooking #tagine #chicken #shabbatshalom
What’s Rita eating? Everything barbecued @thequeclub.  Starting with crab cakes and ending with pineapple sorbet with barbecued grapefruit segments - great idea, the warmth takes the edge off the acidity, just as sugar modifies the pineapple. I
What’s Rita eating? Tortellini @grossigrill. There’s a lot of talk about the simplicity of Italian food, but it is deceptively simple. For these, there’s the pasta dough,the beef ragu for the filling, getting the cooking time right,
Melbourne, in abstract mood. I love the views from @sofitelmelbourneoncollins. More cheerful when it’s sunny, but this has its own attraction. #weather #rainymelbourne
What’s Rita cooking? Bread. This is my first success using an Emile Henry baking dome. I’m very interested to see how the texture and crust changes according to the baking shape. Usually I use a bread tin ( so old it would be considered a
Vale Klaus Lemm. This book was first published in 1986, when he was chef at The Regent (which became Sofitel Melbourne). That was when I first met him. He bought a restaurant called Hagger’s, at the corner of Russell St, downstairs from where G
What’s Rita cooking? Turnip gratin, adapted slightly from a @pmouchel recipe. Sliced blanched turnips on top of shallot and - ideally, silverbeet leaves, but I used the outer leaves of a cos lettuce. Milk, cream, an egg, seasonings - and althou
The rewards of a cold winter: truffle, just unearthed, with a clever dog in the background. #whatsritaeating #truffles #winter #yarravalleytruffles
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