A baked Chicken Roulade is a great cold meat for picnics or with your favourite salad on those hot summer days. It is also delicious served warm with your favourite sauce and baked vegetables. Why buy cold meats when you can prepare your own using the freshest ingredients and home grown herbs. Baked Chicken Roulade Ingredients 1 full chicken breast 8 full rashers of … Continue reading Baked Chicken Roulade
This delightful cherry tart can be made with this season’s ripe fresh cherries or out of season with preserved cherries. It has a thin biscuity crust and is not overly sweet, making it a delicious dessert to serve with a good custard or ice cream. The pastry and the cherry filling can both be made ahead of time making the preparation really easy. Many thanks … Continue reading Dominique’s Cherry Tart
This beautiful classic dish from Piedmont in Italy brings together tender veal and a delicious tuna and caper sauce. It may seem an unusual combination but it really does work. Marinaded overnight in white wine with tuna and vegetables, then cooked in the slow cooker the veal is super tender and the vegetables and tuna are minced with the additions of capers and lemon juice … Continue reading Classic Italian Vitello Tonnato
The following is a list of things you can plant in January in Sydney, a temperate zone: Beans (dwarf and climbing) Beetroot Carrot Chives Cucumber Eggplant seedlings Lettuce Marrow seedlings Mustard greens Okra seedlings Radish Silverbeet Sunflower Sweet corn Turnips Zucchini seedlings Flower of the Month – The stunning white Kalakaua Hibiscus Continue reading What to plant in January
I still have some apricots from Boris and Rod and took some to make these cookies. These cookies blend fresh or dried apricots and coconut and can be made plain or decorated with a piece of walnut for some variety. Coconut Apricot Crisp Cookies 1/2 cup apricots finely chopped, you can also use dried apricots. 2 cups self raising flour 2/3 cup caster sugar … Continue reading Coconut Apricot Crisp Cookies
Elena’s Pasticcio is a lighter version of the traditional Greek pastitzio as it does not have the bechamel sauce but rather egg to bind. The pasta is laid uniformly so that the cut pasticcio has an attractive appearance. We share with you Elena’s recipe. Elena’s Pasticcio Ingredients Meat Sauce 2 tbsp olive oil 1 small knob of butter 1 large onion finely chopped 1 … Continue reading Elena’s Pasticcio
This is a great pie that can be adapted to use any fruit that you may like. It makes a great pie for the Christmas season with the colour of the blood plums and the flavour of the spices. You could also use raspberries or rhubarb. The sweetness of the apple is balanced by the lightly tart flavour of the blood plums. Plum and Apple … Continue reading Plum and Apple Pie
To all who read this, gardeners and followers and visitors we wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas! Continue reading Merry Christmas from the Grantham Gardeners
Melomakarona are traditional Greek Christmas biscuits. They are sweet and spicy and you won’t be able to stop at one. Melomakarona Biscuits Ingredients Biscuits 1 cup olive oil 1 cup brown sugar 3 cups plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 5 tblsp ouzo 1/2 tsp ground cloves zest of one orange 1/2 cup orange juice 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 cup … Continue reading Melomakarona, Greek Walnut Biscuits
The zucchinis are blooming in the garden and the fruit grow so fast that its hard to keep up with them. Today’s recipe is for baked stuffed zucchini using a beauty that Trish shared from her garden. The recipe calls for 4 medium zucchinis and an Italian style stuffing using a good pork and veal mince and Provolone cheese, grated Parmigiano Regiano, herbs, tomatoes and … Continue reading Baked Stuffed Zucchini
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