Indian vegie feast #8 – potato and pea samosas
This is the last of March’s Indian Vegie Feast series. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading, but much more I hope I’ve inspired you to cook some delicious vegetables, Indian style. … Continue reading
Indian Vegie Feast #2 – Dry Potato Curry
Potatoes and breakfast are inextricably intertwined in my food memories of India. A potato stuffed paratha or masala dosa was my first choice for breakfast each day of my travels. … Continue reading
Braised Chicken with Layered Fennel
Usually my cooking inspiration and decisions are driven by what I have to hand and while that depends on the season I have to confess my obsessive food reading also … 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
Potato, coriander and egg curry
During the 1980s when my interest in food began to grow beyond preparing simple daily meals, a friend gave me a pile of food magazines, copies of the Australian Epicure … Continue reading
Cullen Skink
After the resounding success of my replica British seafood pie, I felt emboldened to try my hand at Cullen Skink, a delicious hearty chowder of potatoes and smoked haddock. This … Continue reading
Wild Barramundi topped Potato Galette with Tapenade
Very fresh fish needs little embellishment. It doesn’t need batter or crumbs and it doesn’t need sauce or spice. The quality will shine when it’s quickly cooked and carefully seasoned. … Continue reading
Salade Nicoise
As the weather heats up my mind turns to light, lazy meals based on fresh veg. Meals that require little cooking, so the cook (me) doesn’t get hot and bad … 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
Waldorf Stuffed Jacket Potatoes
A crispy baked jacket potato is my greatest temptation to over indulge in butter, or sour cream so instead of serving a jacket potatoes as a side dish, I make … Continue reading
