9 February 2021 | Recipes
Sally Wise’s Plum Sauce Congratulations to Mikoto Araki who won this months #inseason #cookoff with her recommendation of Sally Wise’s plum sauce recipe. Ingredients: 3kg damson or other dark plums, washed (or greengage plums) 1.5kg sugar 6 cups cider...
17 December 2020 | Recipes
Silverbeet Dolmas Congratulations to Emily Willocks who won this months #inseason #cookoff with her silverbeet dolmates. Emily noted that she usually uses roo instead of lamb and often likes to use red rice. Thanks for a great recipe Emily! 50g minced lamb 1 cup rice...
13 December 2020 | Recipes
Festive ice bowl Making a festive ice bowl to hold prawns, ice cream, or other frozen desserts can be a lot of fun, especially with children or grandchildren. Take: 2 stainless steel bowls of the same shape, one larger than the other fresh flower petals and leaves...
4 November 2020 | Recipes
Taking stock: the wonders of lovage What is lovage? Making your own stock is a sure fire way of avoiding certain ingredients such as MSG, palm oil, wheat, emulsifiers, and flavour enhancers found in many commercial stock cubes and powders. Simply grow the culinary...
28 October 2020 | Recipes
A glut of zucchini Recipes for a glut of zucchini There must be 101 things you can do with zucchinis but some of the less obvious and most delicious include zucchini bread, chocolate cake, pickles, slices, chutney and piccalilli. Zucchini chocolate cake 1/2 cup...
21 October 2020 | Recipes
A glut of peas Freezing your excess peas and pods It’s quick and simple to freeze peas and pea pods but do blanch them as this preserves flavour, texture, colour, nutrients and provides a much longer shelf life than non-blanched. Shell peas or prepare pods. Wash...
