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"I've been making this since my boys could eat solids! and it's still a favourite. Add carrot, celary, bell pepper if you wish, or tinned tomatoes in place of all or some of the soup. I really just make it with what I have or need to use. I also love the custard on mashed potatoes or pumpkin baked in the oven."

Ingredients: cream, dried basil...

"A hearty winter meal on its own or a light tasty summer meal with salad. I've been making this for years and have forgotten where it came from, but I know that now it's got my own personal recipe additions of more of everything. It's become the favourite of my children and their friends...and their friends."

Ingredients: cornflour, fresh ground black pepper...

"I've been making this pasta sauce for years. It's a good way to use up left-over ham and it's fairly quick and colourful. I like it over tortellini, but shells or spirals are OK too."

Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, frozen peas...

"From Australian Family Circle.
An Australian cup is 250ml and a tablespoon is 20ml."

Ingredients: cream, extra virgin olive oil...

"This fast-to-make pasta dish is a good way to use up leftover stale bread and, at the same time, to include a healthy green vegetable in your diet! Adapted from a recipe in 'The Australian Women's Weekly's Cooking on a Shoestring'. Adjust the garlic to your liking and don't include the lemon juice if you don't care for citrus..."

Ingredients: ground cumin, lemon juice...

"A hearty pasta dish...found in the Australian Delicious Mag."

Ingredients: passata, fresh rosemary leaves...

"You may miss the oil, you may miss the cheese, but this recipe is not only very simple to make but is very healthy and flavoursome, and costs only $A2.65 per serve. It has been adapted from a recipe in the January 2009 issue of the 'Australian Healthy Food' magazine. If you find this recipe just too frustratingly fat-free, add some parmesan..."

Ingredients: dried rosemary, dried sage...

"Based on a recipe in Delicious magazine."

Ingredients: frozen peas, light cream...

"This is a real simple way of making tuna mornay. The kids love it and it's better than buying a jar of already made sauce because there are no preservatives and you know what's going into this sauce."

Ingredients: pepper, spiral shaped pasta...

"2nd sons favourite dish. We eat this about once a month, though I vary the pesto, and occasionally add capsicums or olives."

Ingredients: dry white wine, sun-dried tomato pesto...

"A light, flavoursome and highly individual pasta dish which includes pear (or apple) and walnuts among its ingredients. Makes a great stand alone dish, or it could be served as a side dish for four. Adapted from a recipe from Australian chef flip shelton's 'green: modern vegetarian recipes'."

Ingredients: gorgonzola, fresh ground black pepper...

"Adapted from Mark Bittman's recipe for Pasta with Leeks and Parsley, which I found in the Epicure section of 'The Age', a Melbourne newspaper, but which apparently first appeared in the 'New York Times'. Such is our global village! I'm posting this as an Australian recipe, since it appeared in an Australian newspaper, for..."

Ingredients: fresh ground pepper, cumin...

"This is an extremely yummy treat. Really fast to make, and extremely tasty. The lemongrass gives it a wonderful flavour and fragrance. I found this in Donna Hay's Food Fast cookbook."

Ingredients: fresh lemon rind, fish stock...

"A versatile vegetarian bolognaise and a great way to get some nutritious lentils into your diet! Adapted from a recipe I found online. I love the vegetables that were in the original recipe but you could vary them depending on what's in season, what's reasonably priced and, of course, to meet your taste preferences. I just had to add a leek..."

Ingredients: cooking spray, angel hair pasta...