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Ginger Creams

Makes 15–18 GINGER COOKIES 140g unsalted butter, softened 150g soft light brown sugar 70g golden syrup 1 egg 225g plain flour 11⁄2 tsp...

The Best Cookbooks of 2022

Well, some of them! This year has produced a bumper crop of fantastic cookbooks - way too many to give love to in a podcast, so Natascha...

Silk Handkerchiefs with Basil Pesto from Liguria

NADIA’S MANDILLI DI SAEA CON PESTO SILK HANDKERCHIEFS WITH BASIL PESTO FROM LIGURIA From Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking by Vicky...

Episode 94: Pasta Grannies with Vicky Bennison

All over Italy, in tiny mountain and seaside villages, elderly women are making pasta by hand, as their mothers and grandmothers and...

Persian Love Cake

Salamati by Hamed Allahyari with Dani Valent Funnily enough, I only discovered Persian love cake when I came to Australia, but I think...

The Best Basic Butter Cake

From The Dessert Game by Reynold Poernomo Serves 5 These are the easiest cakes I’ve ever made. They’re also mega tasty and so versatile,...

Episode 77: How to Shop, Cook, Swap, Save and Eat for a Healthy Planet

LISTEN HERE In episode 77 of ExtraVirgin Food & Travel Podcast, Natascha Mirosch talks with "Gentle activist" and Author of "Low Tox...

Episode 74: How to be a better cook, with author and food stylist Lucy Tweed

LISTEN HERE Do know what a food stylist is and what they actually do? Are you a good cook or is the kitchen a place of trepidation and...

Lamb Rack with Harissa, Beans & Yoghurt Mash

From: Every Night of the Week by Lucy Tweed Serves 4-6 This has that lip-smacking, sauce-scooping, salty tang element that I often crave....

Jean's Xmas Pudding (Start now!)

My maternal grandmother was English and as such my mother always served a traditional pudding each Christmas. She'd start in October,...