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Good Things festive favourites - December 2017

10/12/2017

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Christmas star - Pixabay
One last communiqué, and a confession, before I sign out for 2017. I confess that I haven't been so adventurous in the kitchen lately. With the painting and redecorating underway, I've been relying on fresh, fast and tasty old favourites. The good news is that the courtyard garden is almost complete and, even if I do say so, it's looking rather spiffy! Weather permitting, we'll finish painting the stuccoed walls of the house, which face in to the courtyard, in the cool of the early morning before Christmas.


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Crisp, delicious and colourful sweet and sour summer slaw

16/1/2017

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Sweet and sour summer slaw - Liz Posmyk Good Things
A few days before the festive season, we watched the Simply Nigella Christmas Special on the ABC. One of the dishes Nigella prepared in that episode very much appealed to the both of us. 


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On fruit mincemeat and Christmas fruit mince tartlets

20/12/2016

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Christmas fruit mince pies or tartlets
Growing up in a Hungarian household, there was never any mention of fruit mince and fruit mince tartlets or pies in my mother's kitchen. It would be years before I knew such things existed. If memory serves me correctly, a high school home economics teacher may have lectured about them in a class on suet.


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On cherries and a festive chocolate cherry pavlova recipe

13/12/2016

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Chocolate Cherry Pavlova - recipe courtesy Sydney Markets
Celebrating cherries - the jewel of summer fruits (photo courtesy Sydney Markets Ltd)
I have always been one to celebrate the changing of the seasons – particularly when it comes to the abundance of fresh new produce that arrives at local greengrocers and fruit markets. The tender spears of asparagus that herald Spring; plump mangoes and cherries in Summer months; crisp apples and sweet pears in Autumn; and those wonderful root vegetables during the depths of Winter.


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Sweet braised carrots with cranberries

22/11/2015

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Sweet braised carrots with cranberries by Liz Posmyk, Good Things
Food shopping with one of my offspring recently, I discovered that the said loved one would prefer not to be served meat, fish or poultry on Christmas Day. This news did not really surprise me, as I had noticed a marked change in the shopping habits over the last several months, with more and more one-kilogram bags of carrots, amongst other vegetables, being added to the trolley each week. 


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Tiramisu with zabaglione mascarpone cream

14/11/2015

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Tiramisu made with Zabaglione/Sabayon (cooked not raw egg) by Liz Posmyk, Good Things
'I miss you every Christmas day,' said my former sister-in-law, Anita, as she hugged me goodbye after we had caught up recently. 'And I especially miss your Tiramisu,' she added, with a wink and a smile. 


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Chocolate fruit and nut buttons for Easter

26/3/2015

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Chocolate fruit and nut buttons for Easter or Christmas
'Chocolate is for life, not just Easter', declares a sticker that I shared on social media recently. It summed up my thoughts perfectly, given that I'd visited our local village shopping centre that morning and was taken aback by what can only be described as an obscene quantity of Easter chocolates on sale.


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Good Things festive favourites - December 2014

21/12/2014

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Spruce branch and christmas star against a wooden background - good things
'Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.'
                                                                                                   ― Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)


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Edible Gifts: Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles

2/12/2014

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'There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and chocolate truffles.'
Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles - edible gifts
It goes without saying that I agree with Mr, Mrs or Ms Anonymous, who was made famous for that deliciously witty quotation. Certainly in the lead up to the festive season, I'm like a little squirrel, busy checking my larder to make sure that I have plentiful stocks of fine quality chocolate and locally grown hazelnuts.


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Chocolate bark with fruit, nuts and berries

29/7/2014

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Chocolate bark with fruit, nuts and berries
As the marketing and events manager of a fresh produce market (in a former lifetime), one of the initiatives I implemented was market tours for school groups. I felt a little bit like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, leading groups of 60 children or more, and their teachers, through the centre. With the help of the store owners, the tours became quite an adventure and the children were always delighted, awestruck and fascinated. 


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