CHILLI CRAB
This recipe is from Julian, guaranteed great chilli crabs – made and eaten while travelling across the north of Australia – I would go back to Karumba just to eat their crabs. Method Clean crab and cut into quarters. With a hammer crack nippers and big claws, then chuck in pot with vegetable oil and […]
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OSSO BUCO
This is far easier and more flexible than most recipes would have you believe. Basically season the meat, dredge it in flour, fry off, cook the vegetabels in the same pan, deglaze with wine. Put the vegetables, tomatoes, stock, herbs and meat into a pressure cooker and cook till tender. Ingredients 8 osso buco pieces […]
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HOME MADE PASTA and BOSCAIOLI
Yesterday I got out the pasta machine to make flat bread. It hadn’t been out of the cupboard in several years and I had forgotten how easy it was to use and how well it kneaded dough. Today I heard Italian food being discussed on the radio and the recipe for pasta was given. Last time […]
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FLAT BREAD
There are 2 recipes here, one made with milk and the second with oil. Tbe second is great for camping. FLAT BREAD with Yoghurt / Kefir I saw Matt Preston make flat bread with yoghurt on Master Chef the other night. It looked so easy that I had to give it a go using kefir […]
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CORN & HAM MUFFINS
I needed to come up with something to go with soup, we don’t buy bread any more because we are reducing our Carb intake, so when I need a bread I need to make it. This is so good and easy, and tastes a bit like a damper. So good in fact that we ate […]
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SWEET POTATO FRIES
This year I have grown my first ever sweet potato patch. Because the weather this Autumn has been so warm the plants haven’t begun to die back so we are going to have a bumper crop and are harvesting as we need them. The sweet potatoes need to harden for about 10 days before using […]
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MAYONNAISE and AIOLI
Home made mayonnaise is so easy and tastes so much better than the store bought stuff that it is worth making no matter how much you actually need. You do need a good mixer – I have used a food processor and a blender but the best is my new, super-fast Bamix. The food processor […]
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MUSHROOM SAUCE
We are still picking mushrooms from our spent mushroom compost. They are coming up in the garden under the spinach leaves. The last thing we now feel like eating is mushrooms but I came up with this mushroom sauce recipe and it is really good. I can eat it even though I have difficulty looking […]
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PORK – WOOD FIRED OVEN
Our wood fired pizza oven has been used many times for pizzas, and has made the best paella, only possible because of the even high temperature on the base of the oven. I have just made the best roast pork I have ever made, with fantastic crackling so I am writing down what I did […]
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KEFIR
I have finally ventured into growing my own milk kefir. These are my first “grains”, bought on e-bay. The 2 scoops of grains came packed in a zip-lock bag in a little powdered milk with a full set of instructions. This is enough to kefir about 1/2 litre of milk over 24 hours. I followed […]
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DESERT PIZZA
This is awesome – totally to die for. Don’t make too many because it is so rich that you can only eat a small amount but most decided that we could skip the pizzas and go straight to the desert pizza next time. BANANA AND CHOCOLATE DESERT PIZZA Ingredients Be totally creative here. This is […]
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PIZZA DOUGHS and PASSATA
PIZZA DOUGH We bought a wood fired pizza oven and then discovered that there is a lot more to pizza than we had ever imagined. The main thing that I learned is that there is an art to the dough and that all doughs are not created equal. To this end we have spent […]
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MUSHROOM SOUP – TWO WAYS
One more thing to do with all of my mushrooms. This one used 1 kg of mushrooms and made a fair amount of soup. It was lovely. Excess can be frozen before the cream/ricotta is added. This quantity would seem to serve about 12. The three of us will eat it over a few days, […]
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MUSHROOM PATE
My excess of mushrooms knows no bounds. I have been given a recipe for mushroom pate, which was fantastic. I changed a few things, as you do, including cooking it in the actifry to make it very easy and quick. This is so good that we should double the quantity. It can be used as […]
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NUT BUTTER
With a good blender, this is an easy and very healthy recipe. There are no peanuts in it but they could be added. With the ingredients including a variety of seeds, mixed nuts and olive oil, the nut butter, although it seems quite expensive, it makes quite a large quantity, and the health benefits, with […]
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IFIELD TOMATO RELISH
This recipe was given to me well over 30 years ago by my Auntie, as you can see from the photo of the typed original recipe. This photo gives the recipe provenance. I just made the relish for the first time in many years because I had an abundance of home grown tomatoes. What […]
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MUSHROOMS – PICKLED, DUXELLES, DRIED
This week we had a letter box drop offering spent mushroom compost, direct form the farm. 20kg bags for about $1 each. We took the ute and brought back 30 bags to top up the vegetable garden beds. We plan to go away for a month and decided the best way to deal with the […]
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PARROTFISH SIGHT WORDS GAMES APP
PARROTFISH STUDIOS Well we’ve finally done it. We have set up a company to design and develop educational kids games. Parrotfish Studios has been born! Ever since forever I have been going to write/create something educational. I have so many filing cabinets full of teaching resources that I can’t bear to throw out, yet I […]
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CHICKEN AND CORN CHOWDER
CHICKEN AND CORN CHOWDER We have been making this recipe for over thirty years, it is so easy and can easily be upscaled to feed a crowd. It is great campfire food. Ingredients Pre-cooked roast chicken, bones removed and cut into pieces 1 onion, chopped 1 clove garlic 1 litre chicken stock or equivalent made […]
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CARROT SALADS
I don’t really like carrots but they taste far better as salads than they do cooked. These recipes are both really tasty. Russian (Korean) Carrot Salad Apparently this recipe is called Russian Carrot Salad but it is really a Korean concoction that became popular in Russia. Every recipe I have looked at shows different ingredients […]
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FERMENTED CHILLI PASTE
Ingredients 250g red chillis -stems cut off and seeded if hot (wear gloves!!!!) 250g green chillis – stems cut off and seeded 4 cloves garlic, peeled 5 tbs light brown sugar 1 1/2 tbs salt 1 1/3 cup water 1 1/2 cup white vinegar Directions Place all the ingredients except vinegar into a blender and blend until smooth. […]
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RHUBARB RELISH
Another use for the rhubarb that I grow. I needed to get a lot of the plants cut back as they were getting rather large, so I had a lot of rhubarb to deal with. This relish goes really well with soft cheeses and mild meats such as chicken, ham and pork. Ingredients 6 cups […]
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HOME-MADE GARDEN REMEDIES
Whenever I have to make Chilli Jam or Chilli Sauce I need to remove the seeds from our home grown chillis because they are far too hot to use with the seeds in. Trying to have an organic vegetable garden I need some way to use all the chilli seeds and at the same time […]
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BEEF FILLET
This was my second meat to go with the traditional ham this Christmas. Many people said it was the best meat they have ever had and that this Christmas the food was even better than normal. I hate to think how we are going to better this in coming years. This is very easy, the […]
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