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Banana Bread
What is it about Sydney-siders and banana bread? I think we are slightly obsessed by it. It’s such an unprepossessing looking cake. That’s what it really is – cake – but it’s been cunningly renamed...
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Macaroni peas
I really didn’t know much about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall until I started reading his book River Cottage Veg, Everyday! From his introduction, I gathered he was some kind of British TV foodie and...
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Cuban Black Beans and Turkish Carrot Pilaf
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why Cuban black beans taste so good but they are absolutely delicious. They’re incredibly easy to make, cheap and you can easily make a big pot of them and feed a...
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Buttermilk scones with jam and cream
One of my earliest memories is of my mother taking me to her weekly Country Women’s Association meetings while my older brother and sisters attended school. We lived on a farm just outside Wagga Wagga...
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Spinach, zucchini and pea fritters
When I was a kid, fritters were an easy Sunday night meal. My mother always made two kinds: lamb fritters, made with leftover lamb from the roast the night before, and corn fritters (with creamed...
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Refrigerator biscuits: Chocolate Sable Cookies and Lemon Shortbread
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the kitchen and do a bit of Christmas baking, Sydney gets hit with a heatwave and it’s difficult to work out what you can possibly bear to eat, let...
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Barbecued tofu steaks / Sesame soba noodles / Quick carrot and cucumber pickle
Got a pesky vegetarian or, god forbid, a vegan coming to one of your meat lovers Christmas barbecues and you don’t know what to cook for them? This marinated tofu is the answer. While you could just...
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Parsi tomato chutney
I’ve found it hard to get into the swing of Christmas this year. Even before the incomprehensible horror and sadness of the Newtown school shootings, I just couldn’t seem to get motivated to buy...
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Party Potatoes
I don’t think it’s a good idea to get too fancy with the food on Christmas day. What you need is lots of homey soul food – salads, seafood, cherries, mangoes (and more cherries), pavlova laden with...
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Smoky baba ganoush and tabbouleh
Tabbouleh and baba ganoush would have to be my two favourite things to eat in the world. If I were given a choice of my last meal, that is what I would choose – I would need some flat bread to eat...
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Sweet potato salad
When I was a kid, my mum used to roast the purple-skinned, white-fleshed sweet potato, and the orange sweet potato or kumara was an exotic rarity. Kumara is now a staple of your average fruit and...
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Baked peaches with almond crumble
Last friday Sydney had the hottest day ever recorded – 45.8C in the city and 46.5C in the west. My family and I decided to spend the day at a huge air conditioned shopping store on the north shore...
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Tzatziki and crispy zucchini and eggplant fritters
Tzatziki with crispy eggplant and zucchini fritters I’ve been having a bit of a born-again appreciation of tzatziki recently, which may be explained by the fact that I came back from my holiday to find...
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Refried black beans with red cabbage ’slaw and zhoug
I’ve had a bit of a disastrous week on the cooking front. On the weekend, I tried to make a strawberry layer cake from the Smitten Kitchen blog. Deb’s recipes are usually foolproof and this cake,...
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Pikelets
Pikelets, or drop scones, were one of the first things I can remember cooking as a kid. We had an old fashioned electric frypan, which was perfect for cooking fritters and pikelets. I would sit up on...
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Roasted beetroot and almond dip
Like many Australians, I ate quite a lot of tinned beetroot when I was growing up. It was there on our plates of salads, in sandwiches and, what would the classic Aussie burger be without some slices...
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Quick red kidney bean (rajma) dahl
I make this red kidney bean dahl quite often as a quick midweek meal. I used to always drain and rinse my cans of beans until I started making this recipe. It seemed like a curiously radical thing to...
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French lentil and onion soup
The weather in Sydney has been crazy lately – first there was the record breaking heat in January, in February we were lulled into complacency by autumnal mildness only to be hit with a blast of heat...
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Celebration cakes – Greek yoghurt cake
When a friend said she was going to throw a small surprise party for her husband’s fiftieth birthday – I offered to make the cake. Last October just before I started this blog I had a whole run of...
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Green olive and artichoke heart tapenade
I’ve been making this green olive tapenade for years now. The original recipe comes from Moosewood New Classics, which is a great book for family friendly vegetarian food. This tapenade never fails...
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