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Oriental no-meat balls recipe

When trying to replicate old favourites in new ways, texture is often even more important than flavour. Further, it's even tougher to get right when making vegetarian versions of meat dishes. But then we often find that the companies and people who get the texture right get the flavour wrong... In other words, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't!

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sweets

Ice pop recipe with fresh fruit and granola

These ice pops are among the foods that are always in our freezer. They're easy to make and are the perfect pick-me-up on a hot day, or a day when the sun is shining through the window and the rays are just warm enough that you can pretend it's summer. If you have children always clamouring for ice cream and sweets, mastering this recipe is even more a necessity for you! There are few things more revitalising and bright-tasting than coconut milk. Blend with bananas for body, then add in just a touch of healthful sweetness and beautifully abundant vanilla. Pineapple and kiwi continue the tropical theme, and blueberries simply go damn well with everything, in flavour and in colour! Of course, like most everything else in life, these ice pops need a pinch of salt, too.

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drinks

Ginger smoothie recipe with orange

Ginger possesses one of the most vigorous, persuasive flavours known to man. Fiery and purifying, ginger is a staple in such a beautiful variety of cuisines across the world. For instance, consider ginger snaps and gingerbread men in the UK and USA, to its ubiquitous presence in a mind-boggling breadth of Asian dishes across that continent, to the Lebanese 'Seven Spice' mix of ginger, allspice, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon, fenugreek, and nutmeg. In addition, variations on ginger tea are of course drunk in many places in the world.

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