November 2021

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Welcome
IT’S BEEN AN unlikely time to pull together our 20th birthday issue at delicious. With food and photography teams largely based in Sydney, we’ve grappled with how to get our contributors together for parties and bring a celebratory feel to the pages
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Innovative Performance
The Pyrolytic Oven’s touchscreen interface provides an intuitive, guided cooking experience that helps deliver outstanding results every time and ensures each dish is cooked to perfection. This guided cooking feature means you can cook with a favouri
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Talk To Us
1,361 likes, 40 comments Trade up the biscuit tin for @lauren.eldridge’s Iced VoVo Viennetta. It’s everything you love about the Iced VoVo, actually iced. Find the recipe for this legendary dessert crossover at delicious.com.au Recipe: @lauren.eldrid
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Delicious AU
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kerrie McCallum EDITOR Samantha Jones CREATIVE DIRECTOR Hayley Incoll Phoebe Wood Senior Subeditor/Copywriter Corinne Parkes Travel Editor Rosemary Slade Editorial Coordinator Monika Hecimovic Art Director Rebecca Buttrose Style Ed
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Menus
Coconut rice pudding with mango and passionfruit, p 22 Sweet & savoury bagels, p 48 Goat’s cheese, provolone, thyme & green olive focaccia, p 84 “I’ll be making big, beautiful brunch spreads to share with the people I love this season. Bill Granger’s
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Delicious Is Turning 20
VALUE: $4,000 Win a four-night stay with QT Hotels & Resorts at any of the designer hotel collection’s destinations across Australia! Your stay will include daily breakfast for two, and an additional $500 to indulge in food and drink experiences duri
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In Season
Crudo, sashimi, ceviche, poke – who would have thought raw fish, in all its guises, would become so popular? We always have one sort on the menu. Barramundi is an Australian favourite, but snapper, tuna or salmon would work equally well. This is the
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A delicious NEW PAIRING
In our quest to make life more delicious., we knew the next step was introducing a seamless way to match food and wine. The solution? Our partnership with Qantas Wine. We’ve done the hard work for you: simply shop our cases and try one of our recipe
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Fits The Bill
BY BILL GRANGER Tomatoes are always best in the summer months. I love using them to make a simple tomato, onion and cucumber salad, with a sprinkle of dried oregano on top. If you’ve got too many tomatoes, one of my favourite things to do is chop the
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Insider News
South Brisbane’s newest restaurant is setting hearts aflame. Embers at The Charming Squire dishes up woodroasted, smoked, and ironbark-coalfinished fare. Hot plates include 24-hour slow roasted rib fillet with béarnaise sauce and a torched cauliflowe
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Farm Fresh
A cookbook that includes recipes by all your favourite chefs? That’s Two Good. The latest release by Sydney-based social enterprise Two Good Co is packed with heart-warming recipes by top chefs like Kylie Kwong and Matt Moran. From good book sellers,
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3 Of A Kind
A 36-seat dining spot where the streamlined design is evident even in the dessert menu, including the now-famed ‘Black Box’. The pared-back interior elicits a moody air, while the menu revels in the colours of local fresh produce, adding contemporary
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Hidden GEM
@essa.restaurant BEYOND ITS DIMLY lit, discreet entrance on Brisbane’s James Street lies an elegant restaurant where chef Phil Marchant designs produce-driven dishes that are anything but reserved. Enter: Essa. Low-lit lamps reveal deep blue-green ma
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CELEBRATING 2020 YEARS OF delicious
Something to celebrate! As we bring you this 20th anniversary issue, lockdowns across the country are beginning to lift, summer is starting to shine, and hopefully (hopefully!) Christmas spent together is on the cards. It seemed fitting then, to brin
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Drink To That
SERVES 2 Mike really likes Americanos and really likes Merrick, so this is his tribute cocktail that isn’t creepy at all, even though he likes drinking them while watching Merrick sleep. This is an Australian version of the classic Americano cocktail
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Double Trouble
@thestuddsiblings IF WE HAD to choose just one cheese to offer guests at a party, it would be the rich, decadent Le Dauphin Double Crème. The record for devouring this cheese with just a spoon left in the centre of an empty plate, is officially 3 min
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Staff Picks
“This mudcake feature that Style Editor Kirsten and I wrote last year (November 2020) is my go-to cake bible for any occasion.” Phoebe Wood, Food Director “delicious. On Sunday launched in the News Corp Sunday papers in 2016, and brought weekly recip
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I Love… Looking Back
WHERE DID THE TIME GO? I’m amazed, and very thankful, that I’ve been writing for delicious. for 20 years. It’s been an incredible experience that’s been central to my last two decades: Being a food writer for delicious is who I am; it’s what I do. Th
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Savour
THE CHEF AND THE BUTCHER START THE FUN 54 >> UPDATED PARTY PIES 62 >> MATT PRESTON’S NEW BOOK 70 >> CHEESY BITES TO LOVE 78 >> STEPHANIE ALEXANDER’S FAVOURITE RECIPES 86 >> ONE-TRAY DISHES FOR EASY ENTERTAINING 94 >> FROM THE OTTOLENGHI TEST KITCHEN
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Backyard PARTY
It’s got to be food you feel guilty about eating, but that you can’t stop eating,” says Anthony. “You know a good party is where you lick your fingers in public. That’s the sort of food you want to have,” adds Colin. This is what the menu here embodi
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Take A bite
A favourite Australian shiraz, deep ruby red with aromas of ripe blackberry fruit, bay leaf, vanilla and chocolate, and soft tannins. @phoeberosewood MAKES 14 3 medium (450g total) potatoes, chopped into 2cm pieces1 tbs extra virgin olive oil1 small
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All about FLAVOUR
TIP: Any leftover finger lime can be used on bright, clean fish dishes or desserts that need a little added pep. Try a finger lime and mango pavlova. They are also great in your gin and tonic – try adding a sprig of lemon myrtle for a fresh, native A
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FEAST at HOME
“If your ricotta is not quite as stunning as it could be, you might want to add other things to it. Think about chopped herbs, slivered olives, toasted pine nuts, diced mozzarella, or finely chopped blanched spinach. Only buy the best fresh ricotta f
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Cheese, Please
A molten, creamy brie, aged cheddar and manchego were the starting point for this cheeseboard. Then we added dimension with sherry vinegar-infused sweet muscatels and pickled onion gremolata (recipes p 83) and served it all with different breads and
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All In One
Seriously good year after year, this wine is packed with fresh flavours of vibrant red berries, musk and cherry. SERVES 6 1 leek, thinly sliced2 (200g total) chorizo, thinly sliced4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced⅓ cup oregano leaves1 tbs extra virgin o
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Homecoming
THE YEAR IS 2020. It doesn’t need an introduction, more of an acknowledgement, that this is the year in which the rug was pulled out from under the world’s feet. Unstable ground had us grabbing for what was true and familiar and, to no surprise, all
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NEW BAKING MIXES By Delicious
SALTED CHOC-CHIP COOKIE PIE SALTED CHOC-CHIP COOKIE PIE YOU WILL NEED: THE NEW DELICIOUS. BAKING MIXES TO MAKE THESE PIMPED VERSIONS! IN EVERYTHING WE DO, our aim is to make it delicious. That’s why we’ve created our new baking range, available exclu
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Sweet Celebration
@geodoes Watch our step-bystep video to get the perfect marbled cake. delicious.com.au/November SERVES 30 This can be made and chilled up to three days ahead, including the marshmallow. Begin this recipe at least 5 hours ahead. You will need a kitche
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Travel + LUXURY
FEEL THE MAGIC IN CAPPADOCIA 130 >>20 OF THE MOST EXCITING INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS TO ADD TO YOUR BUCKET LIST 142 >> A RURAL NSW ESCAPE 148 A real treat from the Barossa Valley, this gold medal winning wine is a vibrant, fresh red with all those s
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Cappa Docia
@portmanteau_press There’s magic in the air in Cappadocia. Whether you are floating above the rock formations in a rainbowhued hot-air balloon or spending the night in a cave hotel, it feels like something straight out of a storybook. Far from Turkey
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Travel News
Prepare to succumb to Tas-Mania, because Hobart will soon be home to Australia’s first The Luxury Collection Hotel. Slated to open its doors at the end of 2021 in an original 1840s Art Deco heritage building on Murray Street, The Tasman will house 15
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Sky HIGH
6. Compagnie de Provence Liquid Marseille Soap 500ml, $44.95, libertineparfumerie.com.au 7. Morphe 2 Wondertint Cheek & Lip Mousse in FYP, $18, au.morphe.com 15. Compagnie de Provence Pink Hand Cream Trio Gift Set 3 x 30ml, $37, libertineparfumerie.c
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Top 20 For 2022
What could be more ‘off the beaten track’ than a Jurassic archipelago off Europe’s most westerly point somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean? Part of Portugal, The Azores consists of nine islands, each characterised by dramatic landscapes that include volc
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Tiptoe Through The Hilltops
Dear ghosts of gold-mining past, I reckon you were short-changed because there’s phenomenal treasure still to be found in these hills. Midway between Sydney and Melbourne, the rural NSW Hilltops region and surrounds await as a brilliant destination f
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On The Agenda
Maldon Sea Salt Flakes, made with traditional artisan methods in the coastal town of Maldon in the United Kingdom, have a fresh intensity and clean taste, making them the ultimate (nautural) flavour enhancer. Visit maldonsalt.com/au Bulla Double Crea
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Sunshine State
@adamdsylvachef BRISBANE HAS BEEN a bit of a go-to weekend away destination for me for quite a few years now. I love heading to Brisbane with family, so I have a lot of great memories there. When in Brisbane, I think all travellers must make a trip d

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