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Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s spiced apple cake with mascarpone and maple frosting.

Freshly baked recipes: Five new apple cakes to make this weekend

Apples are abundant now, and as Julia Busuttil Nishimura says, the fruit is the perfect muse for warming, spiced cakes.

Victoria Whitelaw taking with her flowers bought from Melbourne Market.

While you are sleeping, this major suburban food market quietly powers Melbourne

A miniature city rises and falls each night, built on cucumbers, apples, forklifts – and bacon and egg rolls. Meet some of the people behind it.

  • Emma Breheny
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Spiced apple cake with mascarpone and maple frosting

This warming, spiced apple cake is one you’ll return to again and again.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
French apple cake.
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Adam Liaw’s French apple cake

This simple cake is my idea of elegance. As simple as it gets and as tasty as it can be.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Soluble fibre is found in oats, legumes and fruits, and dissolves with water to form a gel-like substance.

Why fibre is the unsung hero in our diet (and how to eat more of it)

Protein, carbs and fats often hog the headlines but let’s not forget the importance of dietary fibre, the “quiet achiever” essential for long-term health.

  • Anna Magee
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Apple and pecan crumble cake.

Apple and pecan double-crumble loaf cake

The nutty crumble is rippled through the middle as well as on top of this apple cake, adding great texture and flavour.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Buttermilk oven baked fish with green apple slaw.
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Oven-baked buttermilk snapper with green apple slaw

A texture and flavour riot, this dish is simple enough for a weeknight meal, and impressive enough to serve to guests.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Karen Martini’s apple and cherry brown butter cake.

Karen Martini’s apple and cherry brown butter cake meets clafoutis pudding

This satisfying and comforting cake is reminiscent of the French pudding, and you can vary the recipe to bake it year-round.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Karen Martini
Is a hot dog a sandwich? These and other crucial food topics are discussed in the podcast by the same name.

Six podcasts that tackle the burning food issues (like is a hotdog really a sandwich?)

From hot takes on the food debates to the no-fail recipes of the world’s top chefs, let these podcasts simmer in the background while you cook.

  • Emma Dibdin
Steamed pea custard with broad beans and zucchini at fine-diner Babae.

Victoria’s newest destination diner is not where you might expect it

There’s another reason to visit a former gold rush town – and you don’t even have to leave your hotel to enjoy it.

  • Emma Breheny