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
Marieke’s Orange Poppyseed Cake
Years ago when I was dabbling in my first food business, I would regularly take myself away at weekends to cooking schools hoping for inspiration. My absolute all time favourite … Continue reading
Linguine with Seafood Sauce
The quality of the marinara seafood mix from Melbourne’s fishmongers is currently outstanding. Yesterday, for a trifling few dollars, I brought home a half kilo container with fresh scallops, … Continue reading
Apple Ricotta Pancakes with Caramelized Apples
Breakfast in our house is usually DIY. Toast, cereal, fruit, OJ and coffee are the norm, but having house guests is a good excuse to make a Sunday breakfast … 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
REDUCE YOUR KITCHEN WASTE
I know these garbage bins are not a pretty sight, but their contents are adding to the mountains of perfectly good food that’s sent to landfill each week in Australia. … Continue reading
DIY Vanilla Essence
There have been numerous occasions in my cooking past that I have looked at vanilla beans sitting in the strainer, refuse from passing a custard and thought there must … Continue reading
Roasted Vegetable Burgers
This is a brilliant way of using the leftover vegetables from a roast dinner, in fact, these burgers are so good, I’d prepare them especially to serve as a vegetarian … Continue reading
Think before you shop
The article below is from the “epicure” lift out in today’s newspaper “the Age” October 23rd 2012. It’s a timely reminder that we could all be more mindful as we … Continue reading