Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Feb 9, 2012, 12:19 am
It’s coming up to Valentine’s day, the most Hallmark of holidays, and while I don’t usually get too cutesy with my baking I thought I would whip up some heart shaped Mini Bourbon Peach Pies. Unfortunately, despite using my silicone heart shaped muffin pan, well, my poor little pies look more l...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Feb 7, 2012, 1:26 am
This Plum Torte recipe is the most requested and most published recipe in the New York Times, appearing a total of 12 times. It’s so popular, and so loved, that when Amanda Hesser came to write The Essential New York Times Cookbook and she asked readers for suggestions on what recipes to include 2...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Feb 2, 2012, 4:16 pm
Welcome to my third post in the River Cottage Veg Everyday series celebrating the launch of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s new book, River Cottage Veg Everyday. The first two recipes I tried were Mushroom Risoniotto and Lettuce and Spring Onion Tart, and today it’s Quinoa with Zucchini and Onions...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Feb 1, 2012, 12:50 am
Do you all recall that this week is River Cottage Veg Everyday week on Delicieux? If not, check out the first post, Mushroom Risoniotto in which you will find that I am giving away a copy of the fantastic new book from Hugh Fearnley-Whittinstall called River Cottage Veg Everyday. So today is the se...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jan 30, 2012, 2:57 am
This week we’re doing things a little differently at Delicieux. Why? Well, I’m excited because I have a fabulous prize to giveaway, but not only that, I think the prize is a wonderful cookbook for vegetarians, and to celebrate that fact all week this week on Delicieux I will be sharing recipes f...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jan 26, 2012, 3:47 pm
Don’t you just love being able to read magazines on the iPad?  I certainly do. I love that in one small device you can store all of your favourite magazines, recipe apps and favourite books.  No longer do huge piles of magazines occupy space under our coffee table, they are all stored on my iPad...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jan 23, 2012, 11:44 pm
We’re not really cordial drinkers in the Delicieux house. In fact, the last time we had cordial was when I made Lemon Cordial last year.  While I usually only drink water or tea I felt like a change. So when I was browsing for plum recipes the other day and saw this beautiful Blood Plum Cordial r...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jan 19, 2012, 10:06 pm
Lavosh, it’s something you buy when we are putting together a platter of nibbles, but did you know it’s so easy to make at home?  I remember watching Annabel Langbein’s The Free Range Cook tv show and seeing her making Lavosh and thinking “Wow, that looks surprisingly easy”. I bookmarked ...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Nov 1, 2011, 5:51 pm
What do you do with an abundance of carrots?  That was the question I asked myself recently.  Thanks to our farm box deliveries we’ve been inundated with carrots.  Carrot cake is always an option of course, and in fact I did make one using an unusual recipe, but the results were less than stell...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 31, 2011, 7:27 pm
    It’s Melbourne Cup day!!!  Who is your pick to win? For my international readers, Melbourne Cup is the annual million dollar horse race that stops the nation on the first Tuesday in November. You may already have your party planned, or you may be looking around for last minute ideas.  ...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 30, 2011, 8:04 pm
I love this Kiwi Fruit Sorbet.  It’s so soft that it’s scoopable right out of the freezer, which I love, and it’s super simple to make too.  But best of all it’s so refreshing, making it the perfect summer treat.  What could be better than enjoying this sorbet on a hot summers day?  It ...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 27, 2011, 10:09 pm
I wanted to get one more post in before Halloween, to hopefully inspire your own Halloween baking.  These Spider Cupcakes are black velvet cupcakes, a black spin on the delicious Red Velvet Cupcakes I made some time ago.  I love the Red Velvet cupcakes as they are light and almost fluffy with thei...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 25, 2011, 6:20 pm
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” Mark Twain As this year quickly draws to a close, and we begin the lead up to the holiday season I thought I would share some delicious cocktails with you.  To kick things off I wanted to start with a cocktail that contains t...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 20, 2011, 8:09 pm
I was so surprised at how you all embraced my last Halloween inspired post, my Black Forest Cake.  I wasn’t sure if the cake looked Halloweeny (is that even a word?) enough or if it was my overactive imagination, but all of your lovely comments showed how much you embraced the theme.  It really...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 18, 2011, 7:19 pm
We don’t really celebrate Halloween in Australia, which I think is a shame because it’s such a fun holiday.  My fiance and I decided to fully embrace Halloween this year, and went a little bit nuts this year buying decorations for our house – plastic flying bat decorations, glowing skulls, ca...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 16, 2011, 8:09 pm
Last weekend I had a hankering for something with beautiful Moroccan style spices, and these gorgeous little Moroccan Carrot and Lentil pasties are what I came up with.  Now that the weather is warmer I’m wanting lighter meals and while for a lot of people that might mean a salad as a main meal, ...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 13, 2011, 7:43 pm
I’ve got a bit of a thing lately for roasting fruits. I love how it intensifies the sweetness of the fruit and adds a whole new depth of flavour. I’ve made roasted strawberry and white chocolate cheesecake and more recently roasted strawberry ice cream.  For my latest roasted fruit foray I de...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 11, 2011, 8:38 pm
Today’s post was going to be Moroccan Lentil and Vegetable Pasties and a deliciously tangy Tabouli.  I say was, because unfortunately, I hated how the photos turned out so I won’t be publishing them today.  I will however remake the pasties (which have since been devoured) and the tabouli (whi...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 9, 2011, 7:30 pm
I love baking, but the problem is eating all of the delicious, naughty and decadent things I bake.  If I did that I would end up the size of a house, and with an impending wedding, that is the last thing I want.  So, I send the results of my baking forays into my fiance’s work, where they are gr...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 6, 2011, 6:32 pm
Breakfast for dinner, that’s what we had the other night.  The recipe for these sweetcorn fritters comes form the breakfast section of Bill Granger’s Bills Sydney Food cookbook, and although they would be ideal for breakfast, they worked fantastically for a light dinner on the warm nights we ha...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 4, 2011, 7:55 pm
... I was little I hated tomatoes. I’d beg and plead with Mum to not put them in salads or on my sandwiches for school ...  When she saw the plate, picked clean except for the tomatoes, Mum would try to convince me tomatoes were good for me and ... use only and not for republication. If you ...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Oct 2, 2011, 7:54 pm
I’m probably a bit late to the party, but I only recently heard of Annabel Langbein.  For those of you who haven’t heard of Annabel, she is a New Zealand celebrity cook and author a number of books including The Free Range Cook, Great Food for Busy Lives, Sensational Food Made Simple and Savour...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 29, 2011, 8:35 pm
With the fresh ricotta I made the other day I decided to make a Rhubarb, Strawberry and Ricotta Tart. The inspiration for this tart came, once again, from Donna Hay’s beautiful Seasons Cookbook.  Easily my favourite cookbook, I spotted a recipe for a strawberry and ricotta tart, and decided to s...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 27, 2011, 6:12 pm
2 years ago I would never have thought of making my own ricotta. I would have purchased it unthinkingly from the supermarket.  2 years ago I also wouldn’t have thought twice about purchasing delicious biscuits and cakes, bread, pasta and pastry.  Now days, with the exception of puff pastry, I ma...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 25, 2011, 7:42 pm
Now that summer is on it’s way (actually I am convinced it’s here already because we seem to be enjoying summer weather and not spring as we should be) we can finally enjoy ice cream.  While you can still enjoy ice cream in winter, I just don’t think it’s the same, and the weather certainly...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 21, 2011, 6:09 pm
UPDATE: My Mushroom Wellington won the Mushroom Masters Dinner Duel.  Thank you SO much to everyone who voted!!!  I have updated my Mushroom Wellington post so you can now find the recipe there if you would like to recreate this delicious dish at home.  Thank you again to all who voted! I rece...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 19, 2011, 5:34 pm
Recently I was approached by Australian Mushroom Growers to join the Mushroom Masters Tournament of Taste.  Mushroom Masters is an annual competition between select bloggers in Australia, Canada and the United States who each week come up with delicious recipes showcasing mushrooms as the key ingre...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 15, 2011, 9:31 pm
The other day I wanted to make muffins, but I wanted to create a breakfast style muffin.  Orange, Honey and Cinnamon muffins were the end result.  As I wanted the muffins to be something you could enjoy at breakfast I wanted it to be healthier than your averange muffin.  To try to achieve this I ...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 13, 2011, 7:17 pm
Broccoli and I have not been friends.  When I was growing up broccoli was pretty much always on the dinner table, and I can honestly say I enjoyed it. But in my early 20′s I had two unfortunate experiences with broccoli at restaurants, after which I just couldn’t eat broccoli again. Those exper...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 11, 2011, 5:00 pm
Blood Oranges would have to be one of my favourite fruits, and each year I eagerly anticipate their arrival on the market.  I love the way the beautiful blood red flesh contrasts with orange and their gorgeous pinkish juice. When I received some beautiful blood oranges in my farmers boxes recently...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 8, 2011, 9:23 pm
  I’ve been a fan of Rachel Allen, the bubbly Irish celebrity chef, for some time now and some time ago I purchased Rachel Allen’s Entertaining At Home cookbook, which is the companion book for her Rachel’s Dinner Parties tv series. It’s a beautiful book, and if I was to put together a co...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 6, 2011, 8:28 pm
Sometimes, as a food blogger, you have to make difficult choices.  Do I eat the delicious dish I cooked straight away, while it’s at it’s best, knowing that if I don’t take a photo immediately then the food won’t photograph at it’s best later?  For me the decision the decision is always ...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 4, 2011, 7:36 pm
Food blogging is a wonderful journey. It’s full of great food and recipes, excitement at sharing wonderful food finds, and occassionally disappointment.  So when I was recently nominated by the lovely Xiaolu at 6 Bittersweets to join the 7 links project I thought it would be a great way to look...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Sep 1, 2011, 11:07 pm
This Orange Self Saucing Pudding is a definite favourite in our house.  In the last 3 weeks I’ve made it 3 times.  It’s that good!! On the first night I made this Orange Self Saucing Pudding my fiance announced it was his new favourite dessert and went back for seconds!  This pudding is supe...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 30, 2011, 3:20 am
Cauliflower is a vegetable that doesn’t get much love.  It’s strange looking, fills the kitchen with an almost sulfurous smell when it’s being cooked, and I think we all have horrible memories of it served to us as children with all the nutrients steamed out of it. Despite all this, cauliflo...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 28, 2011, 9:18 pm
I’m a sucker for an upside down cake.  It almost seems like magic when you turn out the cake after baking to see the beautiful fruit encrusted topping.  I’m also a sucker for anything caramel, so when I came across a recipe for a Caramel Apple Cake in Gourmet Traveller’s Slow Food cookbook I...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 16, 2011, 10:50 pm
We all know we should backup our computer or laptop, but when was the last time you actually did it? Last time you had a scare when something happened with your computer? Or are you one of those people that does it religiously? For me, the last time I backed up was some time in May, before our holi...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 14, 2011, 6:17 pm
Did you know carrots originated in modern day Afghanistan and were actually originally purple?  The modern day orange carrot that we are all so used to seeing on our supermarket shelves was developed by the Dutch some time around the 16th century and was popularised because it was cheap to produc...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 11, 2011, 8:13 pm
There are two things my stepsons absolutely love – chocolate and Lego.  So it seemed only natural to combine them both into Chocolate Lego cupcakes for their birthdays this weekend. The idea of making Lego cupcakes seemed simple, but executing it was more fiddly than I first thought.  I wanted ...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 9, 2011, 8:46 pm
These Oat and Quinoa Cheddar crackers are dangerously addictive.  One bite and you will want another, and another and another.  This is what happened when I tried my first one warm from the oven.  After eating 6 straight from the oven I literally had to restrain myself from eating any more.  N...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 7, 2011, 6:52 pm
I decided to make Orange Poppyseed Cookies the other day with the abundance of oranges I have at the moment, thanks to my regular farmers boxes. With all the oranges I have I’ve shared a few orange recipes with you recently.   First I made an Orange Madeleine’s, followed by a Chocolate Oran...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 4, 2011, 5:10 pm
When I made the Spiced Strawberry Tart recently I had 3 left over egg whites which I knew I had to put to good use.  Meringue was an obvious choice, but I wanted to do something a little different than your ordinary meringue.  I also had an abundance of naval oranges so decided I would incorporate...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Aug 2, 2011, 6:50 pm
I’ve been wanting to share a tagine recipe for a while, but the recipes I tried didn’t have enough of the spice flavours you would expect from a tagine. Tagine, for anyone unfamiliar, is a Moroccan word that refers to an earthenware conical shaped slow cooking pot, and also to the food prepar...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jul 31, 2011, 6:28 pm
I had a lot of fresh strawberries recently after a visit to the strawberry farm, and wanted to put them to good use.  As much as I love strawberries served au naturel, I wanted to try them in a few different cooked dishes.  The first dish I made was a Roasted Strawberry, Vanilla Bean and White Ch...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jul 14, 2011, 6:30 pm
Bella Venezia was the second restaurant I chose to review as part of Mushroom Mania month.  It’s located in the beautiful seaside town of Mooloolaba, one and a half hours drive north of Brisbane.   It’s a hard life when you have to drive to the beach for a restaurant review, but such is life!...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jul 10, 2011, 7:14 pm
While in New York recently we were lucky enough to be able to dine at Daniel Boulud’s restaurant Daniel.  It goes without saying, for a restaurant ranked number 11 in the world by the S. Pelligrino World’s 50 Best Restaraunts that the food would be amazing, and amazing it was.  In fact, it was...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jul 7, 2011, 10:57 pm
  I’ve long been a lover of mushrooms, so it was with much excitement that I said yes when asked by Australian Mushroom Growers to join a group of food bloggers around Australia taking part in Mushroom Mania month throughout July.  For those of you unfamiliar,Mushroom Mania is a celebration of...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jul 5, 2011, 6:40 pm
“We’re having a morning tea at work on Friday and I told everyone about the yummy apple cake you make. Could you please make one for me to take?” my fiancé asked. I said yes, of course. I love baking and in fact, while we were on our holiday overseas it was one of the things I missed. Thi...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jul 2, 2011, 8:41 pm
Each year I eagerly anticipate the arrival of Gourmet Traveller‘s annual French issue, and when my subscription arrived in the mail I couldn’t wait to devour it.   I’ve long dreamed of visiting France but haven’t had the opportunity of going there so far (perhaps we can go for our honeymo...
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Jennifer D. posted an article on Delicieux - Jun 30, 2011, 3:43 am
Photo courtesy of http://www.wynnlasvegas.com/ Flying into Las Vegas is an amazing site as you suddenly see a city emerge from the desert sand.  Las Vegas.  We’ve all seen it in movies and on TV shows – the bright lights, the pool parties, the shows and the cocktail drinks as big as your head...
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