Food, Health & Nutrition

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Cumquat recipes

  Cumquat Recipes below – best recipe is for dark chocolate cake with cumquats and it’s in the August 2009 issue of the Burke’s Backyard magazine Tracy Rutherford’s Spiced Cumquats  1kg cumquats
 1/2 cups (330g) caster sugar
 1/2 cup (125mL) water
 1 cinnamon...

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Mediterranean Lamb Burgers with Rosemary

Preparation time: 20 minutes + 1 hour refrigeration Cooking time: about 10 minutes Serves 4 • 500g lamb mince • 1/2 red onion, very finely chopped • 2 cloves garlic, crushed • 2 tablespoons rosemary, finely chopped • 1 loaf Turkish bread • 150g feta cheese, sliced •...

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Chinese cabbage (Wombok)

Wombok is versatile. It can be cooked the following ways: Stir-fry Braise Salads – it makes great coleslaw In sandwiches (shredded) In soups (shredded) Benefits • You can substitute wombok for cabbage in most dishes, but not the other way round. Wombok has a milder...

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Growing Chinese cabbage (wombok)

Name: Wong bok, wong buck, wong nga bak, Chinese cabbage Appearance: An elongated,barrel-shaped cabbage, with long outer green leaves; the paler leaves inside are more crinkly, and the inner stems are white. Growing conditions: Full sun, well-drained and fertile soil,...

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Home Grown

  Gardening and cooking for good health and great taste. On sale now in newsagents and all good bookstores

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Frangipani Pie

  Pineapple Layer: 1 x 450g can crushed pineapple 1/4 cup cornflour mixed with 1/4 cup water 2 eggs (separated) Coconut Cream Layer: 1-1/2 cups milk 3/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup cornflour mixed with 1/4 cup water 1 cup coconut 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 1...

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Don’s Last Supper Lamb Cutlets

Geoff Jansz has prepared 262 recipes on Burke’s Backyard, but he has saved his best until last. Ingredients: 1/2 loaf day old white bread, crusts removed 4 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped 1 tsp black pepper 2 eggs, beaten with fork 1/2 cup plain flour garlic...

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Spinach and Feta Quiche

Spinach and Feta Quiche Geoff Jansz made a quick and easy quiche using a few ingredients from the garden and a pastry case from the supermarket. Ingredients 1/2 large bunch silver beet, washed and chopped 1 1/2 cups silver beet white stalks, finely chopped 1 medium...

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Good Skin, Nails and Hair

According to nutrition scientist, Joanna McMillan-Price, what you eat has a direct impact on how you look. By eating well you are feeding your skin, your hair and your nails, and you’ll look fantastic. Vitamins If you suffer from a skin condition such as psoriasis,...

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Peanuts & Hazelnuts

  As part of BBY magazine’s June issue story on growing nuts at home, you can download our two bonus fact sheets on growing hazelnuts and peanuts as two separate pdf files ( click here for hazelnuts, and here for peanuts). Hazelnuts (by Peter Valder) is...

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