Local Produce, Local Recipes Project at Maleny Supa IGA
Queensland Best-Selling Author of The Pram Diet, Rebecca Mugridge, is creating one recipe per week for a year through an innovative agreement with Maleny Supa IGA!
Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe
A recipe from Pure Catering Brisbane. Boca Negra іѕ a rich, flourless chocolate cake. It works bу using a specific combination οf chocolate, butter аnd eggs, whіlе cooking thе eggs out during thе cooking process аnd thеn setting thе chocolate аnd butter ingredients аftеr cooking, сrеаtеd a реrfесtlу set chocolate cake without using аnу starch [...]
Pasta Making 101
For Christmas one year, the in-laws gave me a pasta maker. This was utterly awesome for 2 reasons: 1) I lurve pasta, and 2) having only known them for a few months, the in-laws were not to know this.
Pumpkin, Spinach Quinoa Salad
I’d been um-ing and ah-ing all weekend about what to do with my mini butternut pumpkin that was my veg box last week. I had some spinach and thought I’d wack the two together (classic combo style!) but didn’t really feel like pumpkin and spinach pizza or pumpkin and spinach risotto. Started thinking about making [...]
Oat Milk & Soy Milk: Why Are They a Healthy Alternative to Dairy Milk
Milk in any form is extremely healthy, but there are certain people that cannot consume dairy milk, either for health reasons or due to lifestyle restrictions. For example people who are lactose intolerant or allergic to dairy need to look for the same nutritional value in alternative sources. Similarly if your lifestyle and political beliefs [...]
Exquisite flavour: Conveying passion and experience in food writing.
Friend and colleague Perry Woodward writes wonderful reviews at her blog Black Wolf Review. Here she reviews the art of food writing. Worth a read if you’ve ever thought about combining your passion for food and words.
Chiang Mai Noodle Soup
When we first moved to Brisbane late last year, our kitchen was somewhat forlorn and empty. It took as a while to acquire pots and pans and whisks and all such cooking and baking necessities. We therefore became pretty good for a while at cooking that used a minimum of utensils! One evening I came [...]
Adventures in cake icing
My five year old had a dinosaur cake so my three year old needed a dinosaur cake. “What sort of cake would you like” “Triceratops” Pregnant pause as I consider chances of finding a triceratops cake tin. “Are you sure that’s what you want?” Violent nodding “Triceratops: a mummy, a baby, and a volcano and [...]
Curry Swirls
This is a very tasty recipe from Africa that is handy to have in the freezer for unexpected guests. Curry Swirls Freeze 2 cups grated tasty cheese Base: 3 cups flour 4 ½ teasp baking powder small cup milk 1 egg 60g butter ½ teasp salt 2 teasp sugar Melt butter, beat in egg and [...]
Socca
I found this recipe for socca in a newspaper a while ago then sampled the real thing in Nice in 2008. Very easy & great with soup or as a snack with drinks. I didn’t have aphoto of Nice but here is one of a lovely garden in Paris Socca (Flatbread made with chickpea flour [...]
