
Recipe Scene: Lemon Yoghurt Drizzle Cake
I love the combination of citrus and yoghurt in a cake. When this cake has the lemon drizzle poured over ...
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Recipe Scene: Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheesecake
This delicious recipe is slightly adapted from Nigella's Kitchen cookbook. By all means have a go at making hers, but ...
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Recipe Scene: Pineapple Upside Down Cake
I think most people love an upside down cake, despite the slightly daggy 70's association. Sweet fruit in a sticky ...
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Recipe Scene: Reeses Pretzel Biscuits
I make these biscuits with Reese's peanut butter chocolate spread, but you could easily make them with Nutella or a ...
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Recipe Scene: Rich Almond Cake
This recipe is from Belinda Jeffery's Tried and True recipe book. It is one of my absolute favourite cakes to ...
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Spirit Scene: Don the Beachcomber’s Mai Tai
In March 2012 I went on a pilgrimage to Southern California, this is where surf music was born in the ...
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Recipe Scene: Rosemary Shortbread
I have absolutely no problem with the plethora of sweet, sugary food on offer for Christmas, but sometimes it is ...
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Recipe Scene: Spinach and Feta Filo Pie
This easy and delicious vego dish is form the fantastic The Dinner Ladies cookbook. Well, it's a modification of their ...
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Literary Scene: Book Review: The Devil Won’t Take Charity – Kim Volkman 2017
HEAVY METAL: IT’S LOUD, IT’S UGLY, IT WON’T GO AWAY. I guess if I wanted critical acclaim I’d have picked ...
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Recipe Scene: Sticky Peanut Butter Pecan Buns
I adore peanut butter - love it in savoury satay sauces, sweet things or just straight form the jar. This ...
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Recipe Scene: Sweet Finger Buns
These buns are made with a sweet, rich and buttery dough. They can be topped with icing and whatever topping ...
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Spirit Scene: Raised By Eagles make us a Whiskey Sour
Raised By Eagles' entrance onto Melbourne’s musical landscape in July 2013 immediately garnered the attention of Americana music aficionados across ...
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Recipe Scene: Monte Carlos
My kids just love Monte Carlos, so when I came across this recipe from an old Family Circle book (Step ...
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Recipe Scene: Malteser Slice Mk ll
I've posted a recipe for Malteser slice before, but I was never entirely happy with the base, I found it ...
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Recipe Scene: Jelly Cakes
These cakes are probably considered a little old-fashioned, but whenever I make them people get pretty excited. They can be ...
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Recipe Scene: Pretzel Chocolate Cupcakes
I think most of us would agree that sweet things go pretty well with crunchy, salty pretzels. These cupcakes are ...
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Recipe Scene: Lemon Drizzle Cake
This cake is really nice and, given it's an adaptation of a Women's Weekly recipe you know it will taste ...
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Spirit Scene: Mikelangelo makes us a “Mikelangelo” cocktail
With 12 albums and 25 years of international touring under his belt, Mikelangelo has put together his first ‘Best Of’ ...
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Recipe Scene: Hazelnut, ricotta and chocolate cake
This cake has a bit of prep work, but it is well worth the effort. The texture is absolutely divine, ...
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Recipe Scene: Honey and Mixed Seed Crackers
This is a slightly adapted Donna Hay recipe. These dry biscuits take a little while to make but they're worth ...
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Recipe Scene: Apricot and Almond Fudge
This recipe is so easy - seriously, SO easy. It takes less than 10 minutes ot make, and tastes delicious ...
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Recipe Scene: Mixed Berry and Vanilla Friands
These aren’t friands in the true sense of the word, as they contain whole eggs. Proper friands have 6 egg ...
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Recipe Scene: Double Orange Cake
I think most people love the citrusy tang of an orange cake. Like with all recipes like this you can ...
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Recipe Scene: Chocolate Coconut Cherry Biscuits
I sometimes call these cherry ripe biscuits given the cherry, chocolate and coconut combination, but that may breach some kind ...
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Recipe Scene: Chocolate Cake
I think everyone needs a good simple chocolate cake recipe, and this is my go-to one. It works every time, ...
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Recipe Scene: Banana Bread
I’ve got a couple of go-to banana cake/bread recipes, and this is one of them. It’s really simple, and if ...
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Recipe Scene: Cheesy Ham and Pineapple Muffins
I do love a savoury muffin, and these are great. They are super quick to make, and ready to eat ...
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Spirit Scene: Cherry Rock 017 – Bala make us a drink
Bala (which means Bullet in Spanish) are a female 2-piece of incredible power. They sound like Patti Smith out front ...
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Spirit Scene: The Dwarves make us a Martini at Cherry Rock 017
The Dwarves are on their first tour to our country in three years, at the 11th Cherry Rock Festival. They ...
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Recipe Scene: Sticky Pineapple, Carrot and Macadamia Cake
This is a slight variation of a Belinda Jeffery’s cake from her sensational Mix & Bake book. Belinda includes glace ...
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Spirit Scene: Stiff Richards at Cherry Rock 017
From the “ninch” (Mornington Peninsula) comes the band on everyone’s lips Stiff Richards. We managed to track down the boys ...
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Spirit Scene: Cherry Rock 017 – James Young makes us a “Lemmy”
The 11th Cherry Rock festival was, we'd suggest, the best one yet. With legendary bands The Dwarves & Nashville Pussy, ...
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Recipe Scene: Cupcakes
I know there are loads of recipes around for cupcakes, but this is my favourite. And it’s no coincidence it ...
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Review Scene: Suggs: my Life Story in Words and Music, Comedy Theatre Melbourne – Monday April 24
Graham "Suggs" McPherson has always been a likeable fellow in my mind's eye. I have known his public persona from ...
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Comedy Scene: Nadine Sparks ‘Teacher’ – Tasma Terrace, April 12th 2017
The greatest thing about the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is that there’s something to please everyone who likes to laugh, ...
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Recipe Scene: Florentines
When I was a kid I hated Florentines – why would you choose to have a biscuit with fruit and ...
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Recipe Scene: Coconut Ice
Coconut ice is a bit of a classic, and super quick and easy to make. In fact it’s so easy ...
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Recipe Scene: Choc Chip Banana Cake
This recipe is from Bill Granger’s cookbook Bill’s Food. He calls it choc chip banana bread but to me it ...
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Recipe Scene: Chickpea Filo Pie
I started making this for Meatless Monday, but it’s so good and easy that we now have it any day ...
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Recipe Scene: Chewy Flapjacks
I first had these when I lived in England. I didn’t know what they were, to me a flapjack was ...
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Recipe Scene: Cherry Ripe Cheesecake
This cheesecake is yum, really yum. Although the recipe uses cherry ripes you can make it with different sorts of ...
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Recipe Scene: Cheesy Garlic Bread
This bread is slightly fiddly to prepare, but so worth it. As the name suggests it is basically a huge ...
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Recipe Scene: Banoffee Pie
I first had a banoffee pie when I was living in London in the 90’s, and I loved it. I ...
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Recipe Scene: Tim Tam Truffles
These are so ridiculously easy and delicious that everyone should know how to make them. I wasn’t planning to post ...
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Video Scene: Law and Order: Criminal Intent – DVD, 2016
Season 10 marks the end of this particular Law and Order franchise, so it seems fitting that our original detectives ...
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Recipe Scene: Caramel Butter Crunch Cake
This fabulous cake is another Belinda Jeffery winner, taken from her Mix and Bake book. The only thing to be ...
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Recipe Scene: Salmon Windmills
This is another really quick, easy recipe that’s good to keep in the back of your mind for when you ...
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Recipe Scene: 2016 in review
These were the 10 most popular recipes on the site in 2016: 1. Cider and Apple Bread 2. Honey Cinnamon Sponge ...
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Recipe Scene: Sweet Chocolate Swirl Bread
This bread is delicious. I use my own bread recipe and a Donna Hay chocolate filling – Donna’s recipe has ...
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Recipe Scene: No Knead Bread
I posted this recipe over a year ago, but it’s so very good I’m posting it again, in the hopes ...
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