Quick and easy! A simple and delicious avocado salad to accompany grilled chicken, meat or fish. Or serve as an accompanying dish in a vegetarian meal with roast sweet potato. Avocados are highly nutritious and provide an excellent source of vitamins and monounsaturated fats. The spices I’ve added to the dressing give this salad an [...]
02
Mar
Mar
A delicious way of preparing beetroot is to slow-roast it with garlic and herbs thereby enhancing and concentrating its earthy sweetness. Once you taste it cooked this way you may realise that this root vegetable is certainly underrated. Inspired by my Italian roots (excuse the pun) in this Insalata Barbe Rosse con Formaggio di Capra e [...]
02
Mar
Mar
Curly Leaf Kale recipe that might convert you! This is a delicious tart and vegetarian too. Can be baked as one 24cm tart for an easy family dinner or smaller tarts for lunches. It's packed with lovely local produce. Combines cooked kale with leeks and thyme for flavour, potatoes and hazelnuts for texture. If you would like an [...]
12
Feb
Feb
Makes this easy and versatile French Tarragon butter. Flavoured butters or compound butters are made up of a combination of different flavours to create a highly versatile seasoning or flavouring that can brighten up any number of dishes with their magic! I keep a few prepared butters in the freezer ready to use in a variety [...]
09
Feb
Feb
We live a very multicultural life and at every opportunity we have partaken in festivals all over the world during our life and work overseas and in Australia. One such example is Chinese New Year celebrations, which in the lunar calendar is the first day of the first new moon. My time spent learning and [...]
25
Nov
Nov
Yes, you can do this! Create this simple dish in just 10 Easy Steps. Don’t hurry the process. Take your time to shop, chop, and cook. Taking time to prepare a healthy delicious beautiful meal for you and your family is a very important part of the day. Very important part of life. I can’t emphasise the [...]
26
Oct
Oct
Bees and Honey – Sharing Cooking with Honey ideas with Helen Shield on Your Afternoon, 936 ABC Hobart (and ABC Northern Tasmania), and many other beautiful things on a fine afternoon on 26 October 2015 Unfortunately the link to this program has now finished. In this afternoon segment there was valuable information about backyard bee keeping, cooking with honey, CSIRO bee population […]
28
Aug
Aug
This delicious easy salmon recipe was intuitively created early one evening in our water view cabin whilst on a short break in Strahan. Travelling through Tassie’s southwest region we stopped to purchase fresh produce at road side stalls. I thought to simply put the wonderful ingredients together in a type of mash with a little butter, extra virgin olive oil and a variety [...]