Flavoured with red wine and Italian sausages, this is a terrific dish to serve on a cold winter night.
Heat oil in a large heavy-based saucepan or frying pan. Add onion, celery and pancetta. Cook until vegetables are soft.
Remove sausage skins, add sausage meat to pan and cook until no longer pink. Add half the wine [...]
“It must make a wave. It must ripple like the sea touched by gentle breezes. Watch the wave or else it isn’t risotto.”
This is how the Italian cookery writer Valentina Harris, at the age of four, learned to make risotto from Beppino, a chef at one of Milan’s top restaurants.
“With immense patience, he would explain [...]
I discovered this crunchy colourful Turkish salad on a recent trip to the Biennale on Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour. Belinda Franks is doing a great job catering on the island and this is just one of many delicious take-away meals available. The recipe is an adapation of one from “Turquoise” by Melbourne chef Greg Malouf. [...]
It’s 4pm on a wet winter afternoon and we’ve taken refuge inside the lively Café Nho in Bankstown City Plaza.
The place is packed with locals and school kids sipping on coffee and tropical fruit smoothies.
The range available, listed on the bright lime green wall behind the counter, tells a story – choose from avocado, durian, [...]
Christmas puddings can be made up to six months in advance and reheated on the day, so now is a good time to get cooking.
This mixture will make 1 x 2 litre pudding (serving 12 – 14 people) or 2 x 1 litre (each serving 6 – 8 people). You can use commercially prepared suet [...]
Winter magic is a reality in the Blue Mountains, NSW, at this time of the year. The crisp clear mountain air is intoxicating, the views breathtaking, and for city slickers like me the lure of a log fire is irresistible.
Sitting atop a hill high above Katoomba stands the Mountain Heritage Hotel & Spa, a [...]
Here’s a delectable chocolate and coffee tart courtesy of Steve Manfredi.
You’ll find plenty of good coffee and chocolate at The Rocks Aroma Coffee Festival, Argyle Street Sydney, on Sunday July 25th, 10am – 5pm.
Cream the butter and sugar then add the zest. Mix in the rest of the ingredients. Pour the
filling into a 20cm pie [...]
Move over cupcakes and make way for macarons. These delicate bite-size egg white-sugar-and almond petits fours have already taken over Paris, and are now doing do so in Australia.
Crisp and shiny on the outside, smooth and soft in the middle, they are the divas of the biscuit world: fickle, fiddly and fabulous.
In Paris, people queue [...]
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