Thai Beef Salad
This is a fabulous dish for a crowd. It can be made hours ahead of schedule, in fact it improves if made hours ahead of schedule. I make Thai Beef … Continue reading
Sandra’s famous Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
This is as good as cake gets! A rich amalgamation of chocolate and nuts, it’s never cloying and never dry and the chewy nutty texture prolongs the chocolatey sensory pleasure. … Continue reading
Chicken and mango Salad with Curried Yoghurt Dressing
This is one of those dishes that really is just a good idea with no hard and fast rules. I usually make it with chicken, poached, roasted or smoked but … Continue reading
Creamy Prawn Dip
This dip is a luxurious treat. It makes an annual appearances in our house around Christmas time, a trusty standby I whip up when friends are coming for drinks or … Continue reading
Tuscan Vegetable Salad
Grilled Mediterranean vegetables make a substantial salad. Each vegetable is cooked alone to ensure that its identity is maintained once the salad ingredients are dressed and tossed together. The … Continue reading
Extra Special Fried Rice
This Chinese cafe inspired Fried Rice was a dinnertime favourite when my kids were growing up. Learning to make successful fried rice was not so simple, however, it turned out … Continue reading
North African Eggs
I love the flavour of capsicums but in the past have found them hard to digest. I’ve just discovered it’s the skins that are the culprit, so I have given … Continue reading
Rogan Josh
We’ve all heard of Rogan Josh, many of us have eaten Rogan Josh, and some of you may have made it at home using a commercial curry paste, but this … Continue reading
Raw Mushroom Salad
This is a quick and simple idea that can be useful in many ways, simply as a salad with grilled meat, as a sophisticated tapas, piled high on toasted baguette … Continue reading
Green Pea Risotto
You gotta love spring veg! 1 stick celery, finely diced 2 tablespoons olive oil 300g Arborio rice 120 mls white wine 450mls approximately hot vegetable stock 1 cup fresh young … Continue reading
Spicy Eggplants
It’s rare for me to make a recipe verbatim from a recipe book. I can’t help but tweak this and omit that depending on what I have on hand … Continue reading
30 Second Banana Ice Cream
Sure, you can make banana bread, banana muffins, banana cake and banana smoothies with fruit past its prime, but the problem with all of these delicious treats is that … Continue reading
Tandoori Marinade
One of the joys of eating in an Indian restaurant is the meat that is cooked in a tandoor, a traditional clay oven . The traditional bright red marinade … Continue reading
Warm Spring Greens Salad
The young spring vegetables seem sweeter than ever this year. Just one look in the crisper drawer and I saw the perfect accompaniment to the Tasmanian salmon fillets I’d … Continue reading
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