Angie’s Spaghetti with Cauliflower and Broccolini

Angie shares this quick and really tasty recipe using cauliflower and broccolini with prosciutto to make a delicious pasta dish. Angie’s Spaghetti with Cauliflower and Broccolini Ingredients: 1/2 cup of cauliflower florets cut into quarters per person A handful of broccolini or broccoli florets per person 100 g spaghetti per person 5 slices of prosciutto, chopped 2 cloves of garlic, halved then thinly sliced 3 … Continue reading Angie’s Spaghetti with Cauliflower and Broccolini

Slow Cooked Corned Beef and Cabbage

Tender slow cooked corned beef, cooked in spices and broth with root vegetables and cabbage makes a perfect winter meal. Just prepare everything and place into your slow cooker over night and next day it your corned beef will be tender and delicious. Slow Cooked Corned Beef and Cabbage Ingredients: 1 piece of corned beef 1.5-2 kg 3 parsnips, peeled and cut into pieces 2 … Continue reading Slow Cooked Corned Beef and Cabbage

Roasted Root Vegetable Soup

Here is a way to use any root vegetables that you have to make a delicious and warming winter soup. Roasting the vegetables and caramelising the onions heightens the flavour of this soup. Serve with root vegetable chips made from the recipe included. Roasted Root Vegetable Soup Ingredients: 3 parsnips 2 carrots 2 sticks of celery 1 leek 1 onion. sliced 1 swede 2 large … Continue reading Roasted Root Vegetable Soup

Patricia’s Pumpkin Pie

In Sydney the pumpkins are ripe and we have had a bumper harvest at the garden. Patricia made a delicious spiced pumpkin pie for us and has shared her recipe that uses that sweet pumpkin spiced with cinnamon, allspice and cloves. Patricia’s Pumpkin Pie Ingredients Pie shell: 1 cup of plain flour 60 g butter 1 tsp salt 6 Tblsp chilled water Spiced Pumpkin filling: … Continue reading Patricia’s Pumpkin Pie

Leto’s Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

It was this cake made by my friend Jackie that was the inspiration for my Three Citrus and Coconut Drizzle cake that used limes, orange and lemon that was posted earlier. Jackie has shared her exceptional recipe for ‘Leto’s Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake.’ This cake highlights the wonderful flavour of lemon and has a great texture and a superb tangy syrup that penetrates this … Continue reading Leto’s Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

Make a Healthy Bone Broth

These days bone broth is the new superfood of the moment for its health benefits. Yet, only a couple of generations ago, our grandmothers made their broth this way and the delicious broth was a basis for soups, stews and other dishes for its depth of flavour. This recipe uses marrow bones that are baked and browned and then added to vegetables and slow cooked … Continue reading Make a Healthy Bone Broth

Choko and Apple Pie with Streusel Topping

We still have lots of pecans from this autumn’s harvest and the choko vine is giving us a bountiful crop of its fruits.  The humble choko, also called chayote in the US, is a much maligned fruit that can be bland when not prepared well but it has its uses.  It takes the flavour of any ingredient that it is cooked with and so makes … Continue reading Choko and Apple Pie with Streusel Topping