Tag: quick and easy
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Sydney Summer Treat: Mango Sago with Coconut Cream Recipe
February is strange month in Sydney – everybody is back at school and work after the summer holidays but it is a month that is often hotter and more humid than January. There’s a sense of lingering resentment amongst people, the holidays are over but it’s still too hot to fully adjust back to the…
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Delicious Baked Peach and Strawberry Crumble
Recently, my friend Alice posted a recipe for a stone fruit skillet streusel pie, which looked so awesome that for the last few days, all I’ve been dreaming about is making that pie. I mean it’s an absolute winner, with a mix of stone fruit, a cornmeal pastry pie crust with a crumble topping –…
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Delicious Southern Corn Cakes Recipe with Fresh Salsa and Whipped Feta
I seem to spend a fair amount of time on this blog whinging about the weather and, in particular, the heat. In the build up to Christmas in Australia, along with the stress of buying presents and the preparing and over consumption of massive amounts of food, comes with an added bonus of extreme heat…
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Quick and Easy Green Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus in my time. Now the absolute best hummus is made with freshly-cooked chickpeas and ground when the chickpeas are freshly cooked. It’s even better if you use those tiny, nuggety organic chickpeas which are packed with flavour. I’ve got a couple of recipes for hummus on this site including…
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Easy Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Buttermilk and Creamy Brown Sugar Icing
Last Thursday night, I had to make a quick batch of chocolate cupcakes for a cake stall at my son’s school on Friday morning. After a swimming lesson and a trip to the shops, it was past six o’clock before we got home and I started dinner. My son had requested chocolate cupcakes so I…
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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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Moosewood New Classics Green Olive and Artichoke 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 to impress but it is dead easy to make and can be pulled together in minutes. The original recipe calls for the…
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Macaroni Peas: Fast, Easy, and Delicious Recipe from River Cottage Veg
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 something of a notorious carnivore of the hunt-shoot-and-fish-your-own variety. In recent years, he’s become evangelical on the need to eat more veggies for…
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Perfect Banana Bread Recipe: Easy and Delicious
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 as a bread so we can feel okay about ordering it for breakfast – toasted under a grill and with…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 