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A riff off a fabulous salad by the queen of baked salads, Justine Dorion. My version includes a brighter apple cider vinegar,dill dressing and some tangy orange juice to keep this roasted salad appropriate for a 20 °C winter day in Queensland.
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Now I am by no means a soup girl, however pumpkins are in season here in Queensland and this recipe from the Stardew Valley cookbook looked perfect for our chilly weather. I used what I would call a butternut squash as they are locally called pumpkins and work very well in a soup either way.
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Under the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis, an occasional indulgent purchase of the vaguely left-wing newspaper ‘The Guardian’ would be relegated to the back of the bathroom door where I would promptly rifle through the pages of political and global events, largely uninteresting to my 11 year old self, to pore over the limited food articles. Proving that I was indeed always this pretentious, skipping the comics and colouring books for Nigella Lawson programs and classic novels. I am no less unbearable to this day. Even at that young age, I had begun to feel the draw of vegetarianism and found inspiration in a column titled ‘The New Vegetarian’. Running between 2006 and 2011, Yotam Ottolenghi's seminal column celebrated vegetables and introduced myself and many others to a radical way to prepare and think of them.
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