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Food - Recipe : Tuna Mornay
Tuna Mornay Recipe - Mix up some tuna, bacon, milk, eggs plain flour and chop in an onion and you have a fast and nutritious meal. |

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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 41
A Bright and bouncy lighter style red to enjoy slightly chilled over a
long summer luncheon platters of Mediterranean fare, tapas or antipasto
is the 2008 Pepperjack Stylus. |
Food - Recipe : Pineapple Surprise
Pineapple Surprise recipe - a tangy, sweet dessert smothered in a layer of chopped almonds and serves between 8 to 10. |

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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 40
Back in the 1960s former rear-gunner on RAAF Lancaster bombers, Peter
Robertson planted vines on his property at Barwang near Young on the
South Western Slopes of the Great Dividing Range, to supplement his
wheat farming. |
Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 39
At Essenze Wines, winemaker Corey Ryan chose fruit from the region’s
Awatere Valley for its steely and racy minerality, and from the Wairau
Valley for its intense passionfruit and refined melon-citrus flavours. |

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Food - Recipe : Sweet & Sour Pork
A traditional Asian dish - Sweet & Sour Pork. Served with plain boiled rice and you can enjoy the flavours of Asia. |
Food - Recipe : Greek Roast Lamb with Potatoes
A delicious Greek roast for a Sunday lunch. With a few twists to a
traditional Greek Lamb Roast. Most notably no lemon or extra water, but
Spanish onion and lots of garlic added. You will absolutely delight in
the flavours that come from this dish. |

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Food - Recipe : Tasty Chops
Tasty Chops recipe - So simple but it adds a new dimension to the humble chop. |
Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 38
David Hook Wines have built up a nice reputation for single varietal
reds and whites since being established in the Lower Hunter Valley by
David and his family in the 1980s. |

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Food - Recipe : Chocolate Mousse
This Chocolate Mousse recipe is rich and chocolatey and so sweet to
eat and, better still, so few ingredients and after som melting, some
mixing and some folding and refrigitation ready to eat. |
Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 37
Quite a few of makers suggest on their back-labels popping some of
these reds in the fridge or in the ice-box an hour or so before
opening, and Joe Grilli at Primo Estate in McLaren Vale has now gone
one step further. |

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Food - Recipe : Yo Yo Biscuits
These are rich and filling and so easy to make. Makes a great snack
or for serving up on the coffee table when entertaining. Four simple
ingredients and you're there. The kids will love them. |
Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 36
This elegant wine has beautiful aromas of mulberry and plum and a
rich palate of dark fruit flavours and tannin ripeness; exceptional
value at
$22.99 to enjoy with braised lamb shanks and parsley-infused mashed
potatoes. |

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Food - Recipe : Carrot Cake
Soft, moist and yummy and, being a Carrot Cake, will improve your
night vision. Easy to make and good for snacking or serving up on the
coffee table when entertaining. |
Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 35
Riesling was another variety to take a hammering in the survey, and
interest-ingly it was women leading the charge on Sauvignon Blanc (as
well as better sparklings and lighter reds.) A majority of men still
preferred reds to whites. |

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Food - Recipe : Boiled Pinapple Fruitcake
Our recipe for you to try if you're game is a boiled pineapple
fruitcake. Rich, fruity and moist, a perfect boiled fruitcake. Get in a
bit of practice before tackling the Xmas Pudding. |
Food - Recipe : Chicken Cacciatora
A finger licking good Chicken Cacciatora. A dish with all
the right ingredients to sate your appetite an make you feel contented.
With chicken, tomatoes, garlic, herbs and wine to taste, it's a
delicious dish. |

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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 34
Put your money on it: with the predictions of a coming long hot summer,
more of us will be reaching for the fridge when the call is for a glass
of red. |
Food - Recipe : Italian Style Spaghetti
An authentic Italian spaghetti recipe with mince steak, capsicun,
tomatoes and more traditional ingredients. This one was sent in by one
of our readers. If you have some traditional recipes and would like to
share, then drop us a line. |

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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 33
Jim Wolfensohn is one of our more unusual winemaking characters:
Aussie born and raised, he spends most of his life in New York’s heady
world of finance, including Presidency of the World Bank from 1995 to
2005. |
Food - Recipe : Strawberry Cheesecake
Strawberry cheesecake recipe - A rich politically incorrect dessert.
One to make you smile as it delights your tastebuds and pricks your
conscience. Made from some very basic ingredients like chocolate ripple
biscuits, cream cheese, sugar and jelly, to name a few. Put a hold on
the diet with this one we think. |

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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 32
One of those Clare Valley makers, Peter Barry of Jim Barry wines
remembers it well. “We were fed up producing some of the world’s
finest, most delicately and freshly flavoured Riesling, only to open
bottles that had been cork-sealed and find our great wines corked,
oxidised or just obviously dull,” he says. |
Food - Recipe : Minestrone Soup
A hearty Italian vegetable soup which differs between regions. It's
said, minestrone should be so thick a spoon would stand up in it.
Although this one is not that thick it is still a rich, hearty soup. |

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Food - Recipe : Fried Potato Balls
Another simple and inexpensive dish to make with little effort and
in a short time. Serve as a side dish to the main course or as nibblies when guests arrive or when feeling a little peckish. |
Food - Recipe : Baked Cheesecake
For those who love the decadence of a good dessert come afternoon
tea or while sitting watching TV after a hearty evening meal, washed
down with a good quality cup of coffee or tea. Supplied by one of our
regular readers. |

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Food - Recipe : Chicken With Rice or Pasta
This easy to make dish is designed for the time-strapped single or
couple who would love to be able to come home and knock up something
simple and nutritious from basic ingredients and leaving little to
clean up later.
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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 31
An unseasonally cool February after moderate mid-summer conditions in
the Adelaide Hills in 2008 certainly gave makers there plenty to think
about, but there was worse to come in March when conditions swung to one of the longest heatwaves history. |

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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 30
The 2006 Blue Pyrenees Varietal Shiraz is one in particular to look out
for if you like flavoursome reds: made from low-yielding,
big-on-flavour vines, this one’s got nice sweet blueberry fruit
flavours that give way to hints of chocolate and varietal spice.
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Food - Recipe : Sago Plum Pudding
We are continually adding to our list of Recipes. This one is a Sago
Plum Pudding Recipe. Easy to make and wonderfully tasty. If you have
any Recipes that you'd like to share with the Web Wombat audience then
please use the form provided on the Recipe page.
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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 29
When boutique Margaret River winemaker Deep Woods released its 2007
Ebony Cabernet Shiraz last year, it was inundated with praise from
consumers and wine critics alike as an outstanding wine at a great
price for average consumers.
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Wine - Out Of The Bottle : Volume 28
Excellent Autumn and Winter rains in 2008 and perfect ripening
conditions earlier this year gave Hunter Valley makers every
opportunity to create some exceptional wines from the 2009 vintage.
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