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Will you be cool as a cucumber? Fresh cucumbers are simple to add to salads. For an easy salad just toss diced cucumbers with sliced red onions, red tomatoes and your favourite vinaigrette. This can be a fast way to make a refreshing salad that reaps some great benefits of cucumber. Not merely is the [...]

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Christmas in New Zealand and Australia sees the beginning of six weeks or more of summer holidays for school children and a lot of peoples annual holidays, so instead of curled up all toasty in front of a fire we are off toasting in the sun. Traditions here are similar to the Northern Hemisphere, well, [...]

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January 5, 2010 · 9 comments

Dutch December…

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In the Netherlands, Christmas is very much a family get-together, that isn’t traditionally centred around food. It’s a time of meeting relatives, playing board-games and of course, on Boxing day, a trip to the nearest furniture mall. In the old days, if you were posh enough, you would eat goose or game for Christmas. If [...]

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