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Tackling tiramisu

June 16, 2012September 20, 2014 N8N 3 Comments cooking, Italian dessert, Megan Mills, Tiramisu

Years later, I can still remember the shock.  Casually I had enquired what David would like as a special birthday

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Alison’s berry good crumble

May 10, 2012September 20, 2014 Annette Taylor 1 Comment Alison Campbell, blueberry crumble, cooking, country kitchen, macadamia crumble

Culinary magic can happen in moments – all that is needed is a dash of inspiration and an Alison. We

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Hare today – gone in a flash

February 22, 2012May 23, 2018 N8N 4 Comments farmhouse cooking, Hare pie

We were up to our oxters in left-over slow-cooked hare, and wondering what to do with it all. It had

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Jugged hare delights

February 20, 2012June 27, 2020 Annette Taylor 3 Comments farmhouse cooking, Jugged hare, slow cooked hare, Waikato wild food, Wild hare recipe

Take a wild hare, cut it into pieces, marinate it and then cook it with red wine and nice things. But first you must catch it.

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Cracker carrot cake

January 14, 2012September 20, 2014 N8N 0 Comments Carrot cake, Terene Parker

A carrot cake, smothered in cream-cheese icing is always demanded of Horsham Down’s Terene Parker when she gets together with

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Zombies for dinner

December 9, 2011September 20, 2014 N8N 2 Comments Alistair Fow, Poaches brains, sheep brains, zombie walks

Your average, modern zombie is a difficult creature to socialise with, we discovered recently. We’d invited a bunch of them

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