Soup picture from Vicki Liley pumpkin soup

Pumpkin soup with dukkah

You can't put enough fresh ginger and spice into this crowd-pleaser. I make it whenever the pumpkin pile is getting out of control. Freezes well;great for work lunches or no-fuss dinners.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jane Holroyd
Jars of bubbling,fizzing foodstuffs at Cornersmith.

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Nerida Thompson mills flour for her homemade bread.

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Father and son Stuart and Cedar Anderson with their invention the Flow Hive,which has been patented around the world.

Honey-on-tap beehive a crowd-funding success for father and son team

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Spice Temple's fish-fragrant eggplant dish.

Broccoli salad and other cult vegetarian recipes

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Barista Craig Simon pours the perfect latte.

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Cooked rice dishes should be kept in the fridge.

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Seon Joo of Yong Green Food in Fitzroy with her vegetarian dish Raw curry noodle soup.

Good Food road-test:the raw diet

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