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Nine ways to use home made chicken stock
Posted on July 31, 2010 | 2 CommentsI saw chicken stock being sold for $9.00 for 500 mls the other day, almost the cost of a whole chicken. Which is spectacular when you think about how it is made. Chicken stock can be made with those parts of the chicken you normally... -
Passionfruit Curd
Posted on July 15, 2010 | 4 CommentsPassion fruit wouldn’t normally be in season this far into an Australian winter. Then again, my Dad was still getting raspberries until late May, which is also strange. While curious about why the seasons seem so out of whack this year, I am making the... -
Smoked Salmon tartare with Finger Lime caviar
Posted on June 3, 2010 | 9 CommentsFinger lime Caviar? What on earth is that? Well, after ranting about the importance of biodiversity in my last post, I thought I’d provide another example. Finger Limes are an Australian native fruit. They grow in subtropical rain forest regions with a fairly short fruiting... -
Gazpacho Sorbet
Posted on April 14, 2010 | 8 CommentsAnother unusual summer ( we seem to be getting more and more of them) has meant that the tomato crop has been delayed. It’s just peaking now and as a result there’s been a flurry of tomato passata making and slow roasted tomato roasting going... -
Nine ways to use pesto
Posted on March 7, 2010 | 4 CommentsIt’s the end of summer here in Australia. It’s basil season. We’ve watched the Northern hemisphere with their record breaking snowfalls, their Snowcalypse, their winter Olympics and we’ve smiled, a little smugly perhaps, and picked basil. My smugness has gone. I forgot to take into...