On Saturday I went to my first farmer's market - the Slow Food Melbourne Farmer's Market at the Abbotsford Convent. I had an absolute blast. Bear with me while I go into excited tourist mode. All the produce there was awesome! The fruit! The seafood! The meat! The dairy! The bread! Straight from the producers. So delicious! And...
If you are in the habit of making custards and ice-creams, it is inevitable that you will amass a great deal of egg-whites. I didn't realise quite how many egg whites I'd collected over the past year, all neatly glad-bagged and stashed in random locations around our freezer, until my mother and I cleaned it out a few...
I cannot resist a bellini, that wonderful cocktail of white peaches and sparkling wine. Whether in the fabulous original setting, at any random Melbourne bar, or even just at home, they are always welcome and delicious.This recipe for bellini sorbetto was in my Iced book, and was made with yellow peaches (no thanks!). I decided to use white...
Mum and I have been clearing out our freezer lately. It really was time; it was getting a bit feral in there. We've all sorts of random stuff - endless bags of egg-whites, tubs of stock, chicken carcasses, bags of bacon, fruits, meat and so on.For dinner the other night, I decided to contribute to the ritual clearing-of-the-freezer...
Here are some of the dishes I've been making this week...Bill Granger's spaghetti with garlic and spinach (Every Day with Bill Granger)This one is super simple and light, as you'd expect from Monsieur Granger. You fry some garlic in olive oil with chilli, add some white wine, and toss the lot through cooked spaghetti and baby spinach leaves....
In Jamie's book, Happy Days with the Naked Chef, he gives a recipe for butternut squash filled with rice. The squash is hollowed out, the flesh mixed with rice and other spices before being packed back into the squash. Then it needs to be baked for an hour and a half, until the squash and the rice is...
I love gooseberries. They taste so good! Mini kiwi-fruits without the hairy exterior. A burst of delicious flavour in every bite. It just sucks that they're hardly in season here, and when they are, they're incredibly expensive! I needed 3 punnets for this ice-cream, at $5 each. Gasp! I actually made it a few weeks ago, during the...
Two of my cousins from Queensland have been staying with us for the past week, and last night we had a big dinner at my house for all the family who live in Melbourne. There were 10 of us in total, and I wanted a meal that was simple to make, fresh, light, healthy and delicious. Finished with...
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