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The Peanut Van's Recipes: Creamy Peanut Sauce

You can use this versatile sauce with pasta, chicken, fish or any other dish you think you'd like to add it to. It's very easy to make and Combine all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl and mix until smooth using either a wire whisk or a ...
From Peanut Van

Planting Up Wine Barrels

We all have spots in our garden that could do with a little attention. Sometimes to make an area more attractive we need to add plants. Often the best option is potted plants and the first question to answer is what plants you should use. To work ...
From Garden Gurus

Viennese sachertorte

Use a 23-cm springform tin. Line base of tin with baking paper. Preheat oven to 150°C. Break up chocolate. Melt in a bowl placed over simmering water. Using an electric mixer, beat the chocolate, butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence and egg yolks ...
From All Recipes AU

Winning Kitchen makeover

After a competition to find the dreariest kitchen in Australia, the winner is given a makeover. Formex and the Our House magazine recently launched a competition to find "Australia's saddest kitchen". Ann Humphreys' from Forester Beach was ...
From NineMSN OurHouse

Tofu and vegetable coconut curry

In a wok or large frypan mix the coconut milk, 2 tablespoons of the soy sauce, brown sugar, curry paste, ginger, and chilli paste. Bring to a boil. Add the tofu, tomatoes, capsicum, mushrooms, and shallots into the wok. Cover, and cook 5 minutes, ...
From All Recipes AU

Tuckpointing

Tuck pointing is the placement of white lines around bricks to give a more pleasing appearance. The work is usually carried out on Federation houses or Californian bungalow homes. It is purely for cosmetic purposes to enhance the brickwork and is ...
From NineMSN OurHouse

Dry Mix for Italian Salad Dressing

In a small bowl, mix together the garlic salt, onion powder, sugar, oregano, pepper, thyme, basil, parsley, celery salt and regular salt. Store in a tightly sealed container. To prepare dressing, whisk together 60ml white vinegar, 150ml olive ...
From All Recipes AU

Bad Landscaping

Rosemary Healion wrote a letter to Burke's Backyard begging Don to come and save her garden. Just over twelve months ago she and her husband, Craig, hired a local landscaper to create a curved, paved edging in their backyard. Instead, the ...
From Burke's Backyard

Dare Jennings House

Let's take a look inside creator of Mambo, Dare Jennings' home. This home belongs to Mambo creator Dare Jennings. Once a 1920's Californian Bungalow, Dare and an architect friend have transformed it into a modern work of art. Dare has also dubbed ...
From NineMSN OurHouse

Aileen's No Booze Punch

In a punch bowl, combine pineapple, apricot or mango juice and lime cordial. Add the sparkling lemonade. 1 litre pineapple juice 1 litre apricot or mango juice 175ml Lime Juice Cordial 2 litres sparkling lemonade
From All Recipes AU

Alternanthera

This groundhugging and evergreen groundcover is usually grown for its brilliant foliage. Two colour variations are available - one form has brownish red and green leaves with shadings of pink; the other has green and yellow leaves. The flowers of ...
From Janine's Garden

Orange poppy seed cake

Here's a selection of our best big cakes when you're cooking for many. Make this cake a day ahead and split and fill on the day of serving. You can't go wrong with this old favourite. Orange poppy seed cake recipe A delicious choccie cake you can ...
From Australian Womens Weekly

Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula )

A flat or low spreading rosette, with long narrow, deeply lobed, greyish-green leaves spreading from a central point. Flowers are typical daisies, with cream to yellow petals and a black centre. A weed of bare ground such as road verges, and ...
From Eurobodalla Shire Council

Knitted blanket

For the knitted squares for charity project please click here. Noni's tips from the Better Homes and Gardens TV show: Buy up 8ply wool on special at the end of the season and knit it into a comfy blanket for you or the kids. Simply knit lots of ...
From Better Homes & Gardens Australia

Gazania

Small (30cm) summer-flowering perennial with daisy-like flowers in spring. Available colours include white, cream, tan, yellow, orange and pink. Good choice as a border plant, for rockeries, window boxes, or for growing on slopes and a suitable ...
From Janine's Garden