This is a wonderfully fragrant celebratory bread which also looks impressive.
Sift flour and salt into a large bowl. Make a well in the centre and sprinkle in the yeast. Heat butter and milk together in a small pan until butter has melted. Let cool to blood temperature. Pour a little of the milk mixture onto [...]
Have you ever smelt hot cross buns baking in a home oven? If you have, you won’t have forgotten for the aroma is irresistible.
And if you’ve actually eaten a spicy, buttery but-oh-so-light bun, fresh from the oven, you’d find it hard – if not downright impossible – to go back to those tasteless doughy squares [...]
Cabramatta is just an hour by train or car from the Sydney CBD. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you arrive: fresh lively smells of Vietnamese hot mint, coriander and perilla intermingle with rank durian, fish mint and fermented fish and the spicy smells of curry leaf, cinnamon and star anise; [...]
Fresh Vietnamese rolls spring rolls (bánh tráng) are great for lunch or for snacks. Alternatively, serve them as a starter to a meal and get everyone in the family to fill and roll their own at the table. You can substitute small peeled prawns for the chicken if you prefer – and if you have [...]
Nestled in the rolling green fields of East Cork is Ballymaloe, a picturesque country house and farm and cookery school owned by the Allen family. Cork County has an abundance of Saint Patrick’s festivities, and Ballymaloe plays an integral role in those traditions. Darina Allen, Chef of the Ballymaloe Cookery School, says their traditional family [...]
There’s no denying it. We Aussies love our lamb.
However it’s only over the past decade that we’ve discovered there’s more to lamb than legs and chops – and more things to do with it than roasting or grilling.
The ‘Trim Lamb’ campaign helped introduce us to new cuts like mini roasts and lamb strips and our [...]
I’ll never forget the first time I saw octopuses hanging out to dry. They were strung along a pole outside a taverna on the Greek island of Spetses – and I walked slap-bang into them! Large and knobbly with long dangling tentacles, they were hard to miss and my exclamations of surprise and horror greatly [...]
This is Evi Mitchell’s recipe, from her village on the island of Lesbos in Greece. Evi runs the homely C’Aphrodite restaurant in Cremorne, Sydney.
Preheat oven to 200deg/180degC Fan Forced. Spray 24 x 1/2 cup muffin tins with cooking oil spray.
In a bowl, combine the zucchini, cheese and flour and combine well. Make a hole in [...]
It wasn’t until I lived in Italy that I realised the value of having my own pot of basil. I’d gone to Perugia to study the language and was living with a typical Italian family. Lunch was the main meal of the day during that long hot summer (followed by a siesta) and a substantial [...]
Quick and easy, the secret to success for this soup is to add fresh organic herbs to the soup base as it is being liquidised.
Melt the butter and sweat the onion and potato for 3 – 4 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Add the stock, bring to the boil and simmer 15 – 20 [...]
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