Lemon Ginger Rice, Red Peanuts and Curry Leaves
I love steamed rice, plain steamed rice. We treat it like fast food in our house. Until recently, if all else failed, steamed basmati rice topped with a dollop of … Continue reading
Lemon and Rosemary Syrup Cake
Yesterday was one of those days, the sort of day when the safest way to avoid disaster is to shut yourself away and do nothing. I should have heeded the … Continue reading
Hot Smoked Salmon Salad with Lemon Salad Cream
Salmon means luxury to me, a hangover from before Tasmania’s farmed Atlantic salmon industry, when all the salmon you could buy in Australia was canned, smoked or air freighted … Continue reading
Lemon Sour Cream Cake with Blueberries
The scent and flavour of lemon is universally loved. Lemon is delicious with sugar and delicious with salt but it also has the magical ability of intensifying and enhancing dull … Continue reading
Lemony Pilau with Toasted Pinenuts
There are several varieties of rice on my pantry shelf, but I confess to falling off the locavore wagon when it comes to this wondrous grain because the irrigation of … Continue reading
Macadamia Meringue Layer Cake
Another family birthday has come and gone. Miss S celebrated turning eight with a gymnastics party and lots of Lego gifts. The second small family celebration with the oldies called … Continue reading
6 hour Roasted Lamb Shoulder
All Australian lamb is free range. It is sweet and succulent having fed on grass or salt bush. Braised, roasted, grilled and barbequed, as curries, souvlakis, soup and pies, lamb … Continue reading
Karen Martini’s Syrian Chicken
I’ve been making this fabulous chicken dish created by Karen Martini since it was published in our daily newspaper’s Sunday magazine several years ago. Sweet and spicy, the chicken looks … Continue reading
Wet Roasted Lamb Leg with Lemon and Herbs
Roast leg of lamb was once considered the quintessential Australian meal. It’s an old favourite in my family, though usually I buy the leg deboned and butterflied by my wonderful … Continue reading
Salmon En Papillote
It was always going to be a rowdy night sharing travel experiences and photos with friends. They’d been travelling in exotic Eastern Europe and Russia, we’d been in the Kimberley. … Continue reading
Braised Lamb Shanks with Rosemary, Lemon and Garlic
I’m rarely succeed in snaring a bargain at the butcher’s shop, but recently in desperate need of coffee beans I raced into our local fresh food market on a Sunday … Continue reading
Lemon, Pea and Pasta Salad
I served salmon prepared two different ways for Christmas dinner. We had gravlax cured in citrus vodka, and warm salmon steamed on a bed of dill. There was prawns and … Continue reading
Cardamom and Lemon Chicken
Cardamom Chicken is a delicious combo of citrus, coconut and coriander, all underscored by the slightly mouth numbing spiciness of fresh cardamom. Don’t be tempted to replace the whole seeds … Continue reading