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  • empanada with beef filling

    Empanadas with Beef

    You’ll always remember your first empanada. We had just arrived in Santiago, the capital of Chile, after a twenty hour bus trip and we were starving. Santiago was the first truly big city we’d been in since leaving Miami four months before, with backpacks and...

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  • Thai Pumpkin Soup

    Thai Pumpkin Soup

    In Australia, we’re pretty proud of our pumpkins. They’re in a class of their own, and even have sub classes, broken down by varietal eg Butternut, Jap or Queensland Blue. We don’t lump them in with zucchinis or yellow squash like the North Americans do,...

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  • Eggplant (aubergine) and chickpea salad

    Eggplant and Chickpea salad

    Has any one else heard of the “will marry for health insurance” woman? I got absorbed in the comments on the Lemondrop website for hours, between those who think she’s crazy, and those who are congratulating her on being upfront about what she wants. More...

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  • 640squid

    Free range egg fettucini with Calamari Sauce

    The cool change arrived with a vengeance. After a sweltering and steamy day, the mercury dropped by 10 C in half an hour. Then the rain came down. The rain which is still coming down, in a deluge that soaked pedestrians to the skin, sent...

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