Things to Bake (etc) This Weekend

All The Recipe Ideas And More - Friday Food Chat with Kath

It’s been quite cold around here (well cold for Sydney anyway!), so baking and spending time in the kitchen is still top of my ‘want to do’ list.

Here’s some things that have made part of that list lately:

• I shared this Pistachio cake here last week, adding the link here again because it really is that good.

• I have been making a Ukrainian Beetroot Prune and Walnut Dip/Spread/Salad (it’s really whatever you want it to be!) from the cookbook Sour Cherries and Sunflowers by Anastasia Zolotarev a bit recently. I love it on a bread roll or wrap - this recipe is the most similar I can find online, but in Anastasia’s recipe the beetroot is grated and everything else is chopped and mixed together.

• I have saved this interview with Fadi Kattan (author of cookbook Bethlehem) with

  Lama Obeid
  to listen to soon, there is also one Lama has done with Sami Tamimi as well. Anyone else looking forward to Sami’s new book?!

• These Ginger Molasses Cookies from

  Sheryl O'Connell
  have been on my ‘to bake’ list for a few months, but I have hope I will make them soon!

• I just got a copy of Cornersmith’s book Use it All, and am eagerly reading up on how to reduce food waste. Here are the things I already do to reduce food waste in my kitchen.

• I am thinking another bake of this Passionfruit Macadamia Oil Cake is needed to brighten up these colder days. If you don’t have macadamia oil, you can use any neutral/flavourless oil like canola, sunflower or vegetable.

• I am hoping to share a new cake recipe with my paid subscribers this weekend, so if you aren’t already a paid subscriber to this newsletter please consider upgrading your subscription today :) Here’s a look at the extra things paid subscribers have been receiving so far.

Beetroot Walnut and Prune Salad 😍

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Caramilk Dried Cherry and Pistachio Cookies

Because biscuits/cookies are always a good idea! You can swap the dried cherries for any other dried fruit, same goes for the chocolate!

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