Seafood (prawns, fish and crab) and meat lasagne recipes with ricotta in the white sauce layer. These are the result of many years experimenting with lasagnes. Lasagne is a great way to serve a bunch of people (these both serve 12), because all of the prep and cooking can be done in advance and if […]

Kylie Kwongs Italian Mushroom Ragout (inspired by Franca and Stefano Manfredi) Serves: as part of a meal for 4-6 Ingredients 8 garlic cloves, crushed 4 salad onions, trimmed and finely sliced 1 tablespoon sea salt 200 g (61/2 oz) fresh button mushrooms 100 g (31/2 oz) fresh oyster mushrooms 150 g (5 oz) fresh shiitake […]

Got lots of leaves – no fruit.

  The Plan Since potatoes, pumpkins and melons take up so much space I have decided to extend the garden out of the protected arches. I only got 5 pumpkins from a big area of the arches – hardly enough to last a few weeks in the pumpkin soup season. Potatoes grow under straw and […]

Silver beet grows right through the season – we shared our continuous supply with the chooks. They loved it so we got the extra goodness in the eggs. This is a very tasty way to cook your greens. We cut the stems from the silverbeet – it reduces the musty taste. You can use beetroot […]

Fantastic with ham, prawns – anything that needs a salad as a side. This has a taste of its own. Usually I don’t use quantities. I just add what looks right and what is in the fridge and adjust to taste, however I made this salad today and noted the quantities.   Ingredients 2 tomatoes […]

Out here everything grows, given a bit of water, but we rarely get to eat any of it. It’s the rats, bats, possums, cockatoos, geese, chooks and ducks that get first pickings. I don’t mind sharing but that is not the way it is working. We have lived here for 12 years now and haven’t […]

2011 – We had not really eaten beetroot before growing it. What a fantastic vegetable. Really good for you, easy to grow, tastes great, tastes best raw, fantastic when juiced, when pickled it is so much better than the tinned stuff and you use the lot of it. The leaves taste much better than silver-beet.  […]