Category: Appetisers, Snacks, Dips and Spreads
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Master Recipe for Crunchy Homemade Crackers
Homemade crackers are one of those things that are a low effort high reward. I always feel homemade pasta is over hyped, sure it’s delicious but it is a total hassle and is it worth the mess, space and time when a good quality dried pasta is almost as good and with some sauce combinations…
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Turkish Swiss Chard Fritters Recipe | Ottolenghi Inspired
I’ve got a plethora of silverbeet (aka swiss chard) in my garden at the moment. I planted quite a lot after the flooding rains last year when greens became incredibly expensive. Now greens are incredibly cheap at the shops and I’ve got a bumper crop of silver beet in the garden to try and eat…
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Refreshing Peach and Raspberry Cordial Recipe
Last Friday was the first of March and first official day of autumn according to the upside down European calendar of the seasons we use in Australia. For most of us this seasonal demarcation of the seasons from the old world is pretty useless – we still have a fair bit of hot weather to…
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Cool Summer Recipe: Dorie Greenspan’s Spoonable Ricotta for Heatwave Survival
I haven’t posted anything for a long time – first there was Christmas, then summer holidays and going back to work, but mainly I haven’t posted because… the heatwave!! I always complain about the heat this time of year. Sydney in February is always hot, humid and horrible but January was the hottest month on…
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Broad Bean and Chickpea Fritters with Fragrant Green Tahini
It’s broad bean season and I never feel I do fresh broad beans justice but I’m trying to change that this year. If you get over the hassle of the double peeling they are a fantastic celebration of spring. This broad bean and chickpea fritters are similar to falafel but they don’t require all the…
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Discover the Delight of Miso Butter: A Simple Recipe for a Culinary Game Changer
About six months ago, I went with friends to the vegetarian restaurant Yellow for dinner. I’m not really one for fancy restaurants, particularly ones that you have to book months in advance (who can think that far ahead) and then also give up your credit card details so if you don’t show up you get…
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Spectacular Mashed Beetroot with Yogurt & Za’artar Recipe
When I was a kid you judged a good party by the eye popping colour of its food offerings. Any decent party spread was a riot of colour – pink and green lamingtons, fire engine red frankfurter sausages, fairy bread, jellied orange quarters, green and red pickled onions, bowls of garish lollies and iced fairy…
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Best Sydney picnic – Ricotta, kale and walnut pesto sandwich recipe
I have a bit of a love hate relationship with my home city of Sydney. In the hate camp, is the fact, that the city is overpriced, congested, mindlessly pro-developer and money obsessed. On the love side, parts of it are just so heart meltingly beautiful you forget about all the bad stuff. Sydney is…
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Ottolenghi’s Easy Party Olive Oil Crackers
When ever I make my own crackers I realise how rubbish even the expensive high quality commercial crackers are. Nothing you can buy compares to home-made ones. I love making Swedish seed crackers but these olive oil crackers are super simple, a three ingredient cracker that you can bring together with minimal fuss. I made a…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 