So you know those days when your oven is being obstreperous for no reason, where you figure if a recipe calls for one kind of biscuit to use as those clever bases that you cook in the oven for a few minutes to make it soft and then you mould it into that tart-shape, but…
For several reasons: 1 – It’s Friday. 2 – Because we had the ingredients in the cupboard, courtesy of duty-free impulse shopping. 3 – Because we could. Adam and I are sipping our now. Cheers. 1/4 cup Baileys Irish Cream 1/4 cup Frangelico 1/4 cup Butterscotch Schnapps Mix well, in a shaker, with ice. Pour…
You’ll note there is no photo to today’s recipe: this is because it was eaten before I had a chance to get the camera! So think that’s a reasonable sign of its success. It looks quite a bit like my lemon cake if you absolutely need some kind of reference. Ingredients 200g butter, softened 1…
Not so much a recipe as a twenty second solution to a day when I was too hot and tired to do anything. Voilà! Rockmelon (or cantaloupe, as it’s called here in Victoria a fair bit – not to mention overseas) wrapped in prosciutto. Drizzled in a bit of olive oil. Sprinkle some flat-leaf parsley…
Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 large red onion, sliced thickly 500g pumpkin, peeled, chopped 3 teaspoons ground cumin 2 teaspoons ground coriander 1 cup couscous 1 cup boiling water 20g butter Method Preheat oven to 220C (200C for fan-forced oven) Heat oil in medium flameproof baking dish; cook garlic, onion…
This is a Nigella Lawson recipe and, in fact, the picture below is hers too. Where is the proof that I made this recipe? I have photos, but won’t post them because they are hideous. Why? Let’s put it this way: the recipe called for cocktail sausages. I thought these were the same thing as…
This comes courtesy of Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food cookbook. Ingredients 5 carrots A few springs of mint and coriander Salt and Pepper 6 tbs olive oil 2 tbs lemon juice Method Grate carrots in the grater blade on a food processor (or, use elbow grease and do it manually!) Chop mint and coriander and…
Ingredients 75g butter, chopped 1/3 cup treacle 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar 3/4 cup plain flour 1/2 cup self-raising flour 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon mixed spice 1 tablespoon brown sugar, extra Method Preheat oven to 140C (fan-forced). Grease oven trays; line with baking paper. Combine butter, treacle and sugar in medium saucepan; stir…
This is a heavily modified recipe from the January 2013 Australian Good Taste magazine. I modified it for two reasons: The first being I needed to cook the chicken and then shred it and I didn’t have the time. The second is I made the proper dressing accompaniment and it tasted really bad. So I’ll…
