Category: Recipes
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Ina Garten’s Lemon and Buttermilk Pound Cake Recipe
Although I do not really consider myself much of a cake cook, I do bake cakes – because if you’re going to eat cake, it might as well be homemade. Everyone needs a ‘slam dunk’, great lemon cake in their repertoire and this is mine because it manages to strike the perfect balance between lemony…
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Creamy Vegan Roasted Red Pepper, Tomato and Peanut Soup Recipe
This is my sister-in-law’s favourite soup and one she has made for me quite often as a vegetarian meal when I’m visiting her. It really is the most spectacular soup with a rich, complex flavour. A couple of weeks ago when I was visiting brother’s family in Wagga, I made this soup for my sister-in-law’s…
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Crunchy Sesame and Pistachio Damascus Cookies Recipe
Last week, when most of the people I knew were engaged in the great Australian bake-off of Anzac Biscuits for Anzac Day, I decided to swim against the tide and bake some Damascus cookies. Many years ago, I used to work in a café in Melbourne and we sold massive amounts of a house-made version…
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Classic Vegetarian Split Pea Soup | Wholesome Moosewood Recipe
I bought my first pomegranate of the season at my local supermarket yesterday. Quince season is upon us, good apples are back and it’s time to pull out the soup pot and make soup again. I absolutely love Autumn. It is a time of year when you actually feel like doing some real cooking again,…
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David Herbert’s Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe: Light and Velvety
I not really a great cake baker. In fact, I find the whole process of a baking a cake a bit of a bother. Cake making is not something where you can just wing it; you really have to get the ratios right and that means following a recipe. You have to gather and measure…
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Authentic Greek Spinach Pie Recipe – The Best Spanakopita
I don’t know what it is about Good Friday, perhaps it all that Christ death symbolism swirling round but it’s always a bit of a downer of a day. I always seem to feel unwell, with some kind of headache or even a full-blown migraine. This good Friday was no exception. I had a…
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Muhammara Recipe: Delicious Middle-Eastern Red Pepper Dip
I’ve pretty much given up on the idea of a baking anything this Easter break on account that it is just too damn hot. We’ll buy our Easter buns from the Bourke Street Bakery and they will taste all the better for not having slaved over a hot oven. I’ll just do all my Easter…
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Refreshing Appetizer for Summer: Joanne Weir’s Cucumber and Feta Salad
Easter is early this year and just when our thoughts should be turning to chocolate and baking, Sydney is having an unseasonably hot spell of weather. The Easter holidays are just days away, I know I will feel compelled to eat some chocolate this weekend but, unless we get some kind of cool change, I…
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Chocolate Pudding Recipe: Simple, Eggless, and Delicious
I’m not much of a dessert person, it’s not that I’m ideologically opposed to them (we all need a bit of sweetness in our lives) it’s just that I tend to over eat on the savoury course and can’t be bothered with sweets. I guess I’m not gastronomically balanced enough to fit dessert in. I…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 