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Thanks Nigella, food is pretty awesome!

13 May, 2010
By Natalie
Thanks Nigella, food is pretty awesome!

When you talk about hard issues, like body image and being fat and feminism, it’s nice to have a refuge. Somewhere to recoop lost Sanity Points. A little place where you don’t have to justify why you have the right to take up space, or field the same old tired questions. Nigella Lawson is...
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Super tangy lemon pudding

9 March, 2010
By Natalie
Super tangy lemon pudding

I was craving something with a citrus tang last night so I cobbled together a recipe for a microwavable lemon self-saucing pudding. Ingredients 1 cup self-raising flour, sifted 1/3 cup caster sugar 2 small lemons, rind finely grated (you can substitute any citrus on hand, really) 60g butter, melted, at room temperature (I used...
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Sweet potato and lentil patties

6 January, 2010
By Natalie
Sweet potato and lentil patties

Today I was in the mood for a bit of a burger but lately I’ve gone off animal meat, so I put the feelers out on the lazyweb (i.e: Twitter!) for a vege patty recipe. Viv supplied me with this sweet potato (or kumara) and lentil patty recipe, and it was so incredible that...
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Delicious savoury muffins!

7 October, 2009
By Natalie
Delicious savoury muffins!

I wanted to bake some savoury muffins for my husband to take to work and for general snacking noms, because I think I have just about hit my strawberry limit (Queensland seems to be having some kind of strawberry explosion at the moment). This recipe is super flexible: you can swap veges in and...
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When I grow up I want to be a dessert chef

7 June, 2009
By Natalie
When I grow up I want to be a dessert chef

It seems heaps of people are getting in to MasterChef Australia and I try to watch it every few nights just to see if they’re being taught any new recipes, but often I completely forget. Despite this the show has inspired me to cook more desserty style dishes. I’ve been perfecting the cupcake thing...
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Eat, Sleep, Cupcake!

6 May, 2009
By Natalie
Eat, Sleep, Cupcake!

I bought the domain eatsleepcupcake.com to start a group authored cupcake tumblr – for people who make cupcakes and like to show them off. Unfortunately I failed to realise that the submission tool used around tumblr is only for private beta testers, not for me, so my plan collapsed :( Eat, Sleep, Cupcake is...
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