Strawberry galettes

These rustic little tarts are simple to make, particularly if you use frozen puff pastry sheets. You can ring the changes with different fruit.
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Prawn and Oyster Mushroom Soup

A deeply flavoured prawn stock is the magic ingredient in this refreshing hot and sour soup.
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Food news

Cheese expert Will Studd has called on fellow cheese lovers to make submissions to Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) to lift the ban on raw milk cheese in Australia.FSANZ recently announced the terms of its long awaited review of domestic dairy processing standards which currently ban the production and sale of most cheese made from raw milk. Read more >>>

Recently on my blog

August 23 is Read While Waiting Day. If you're heading out, tuck a small cookbook in your bag and join in at 3pm.
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Do you know where that kitchen sponge has been? Dodgy kitchen practices come to light in survey. Read more >>>

Oz bloggers

I've added a list of Australian food blogs to my Links section. I know bloggers sometimes run out of steam so I've included only those blogs that were current at the time of writing and had articles posted in the previous month.

Books for cooks

Cocina Nueva: The New Spanish Kitchen is a contemporary look at traditional Spanish cuisine that will strike a chord with those who have taken hungrily to the delights of Spanish food.
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Cuisine's top NZ restaurant named

The Matterhorn in Wellington has been operating in Wellington for more than 40 years - firstly as a coffee bar, latterly as a restaurant. It has now been named Cuisine magazine's NZ Restaurant of the Year.
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The Cook's Shop

Drop by my aStore. It features favourite kitchen equipment, cookbooks, reference books, books written by chefs and foodies, and whatever else I think will interest food lovers. Check it out... or grab my free cookbook, The Novice Cook.