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Cured Zucchini Salad with Pickled Red Onion

Cured Zucchini Salad with Pickled Red Onion

Fresh and festive, this Cured Zucchini Salad with Pickled Red Onion is simple and flavoursome. You'll also find the recipe for making the pickled onion below, which you can make and use in a variety of dishes, for weeks! Ingredients 3 medium zucchini – 650g, sliced into very thin circles 1 tbsp Flaky salt 1⁄4 cup Salute semi-dried black olives – halved and pitted 2 tbsps pickled red onion 3 tbsps Salute Extra Virgin Olive Oil (you can use the oil from the olives) fresh dill, chopped or picked into small pieces 180g crumbled barrel aged feta, optional 100g mixed...

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Candied Walnut Pear Salad

Candied Walnut Pear Salad

This Candied Walnut Pear Salad is a lovely, simple summery salad. The candied walnuts are the hero and, as always, the success of a salad lies in the seasoning and in the quality and freshness of the ingredients - enjoy while pears are in season! Ingredients 1⁄2 cup Phillippa’s Soy-Candied Walnuts (see below) 1 medium firm ripe pear 1 tbsp lemon juice 100g rocket or mixed leaves 4 tbsp Phillippa’s Honey Vinaigrette 2 tbsp fresh mint Method Cut pears into quarters and slice thinly. Coat in lemon juice, set aside. Put leaves into the base of a shallow salad bowl, layer...

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Cranberry & Orange Tea Cake

Cranberry & Orange Tea Cake

As the name implies, tea cake is cake to have with tea - not too rich, not too sweet; often quite simple and plain. Tea cakes require little time to make and are based on everyday ingredients. We make this cake regularly in our Armadale kitchen, but it is particularly popular in Winter, when oranges are at their best, and around Christmas, when the combination of cranberries and orange suits festive occasions.  Ingredients 190g butter, softened 210g caster sugar 3 eggs 190g plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 150g fresh or frozen cranberries finely grated zest of 1 orange 100ml...

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Baked Apples Stuffed With Honey-Spiced Crumbs

Baked Apples Stuffed With Honey-Spiced Crumbs

This Baked Apples Stuffed With Honey-Spiced Crumbs dish can be whipped up easily with a few simple, delicious ingredients.  Our Honey Bunnies and Honey Bear biscuits add a depth of flavour to both sweet and savoury dishes, so you may want to keep a couple of packets handy in your pantry! Ingredients 6 apples 6 Phillippa’s Honey Bunnies or Honey Bears Biscuits 65g butter 40g caster sugar Method Slice 1cm off the top of each apple. Using a corer, remove the core leaving the base intact, about 1 cm. Place apples in a buttered baking dish. Press 1 tsp butter into each apple cavity...

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