![[BOOK] The Cook's Garden by Sheridan Rogers](/wp-content/themes/crunched/images/bannerads/banner_cooksGarden_576x91.jpg)
In our household, this is known as ‘get-better-soon’ soup. Make sure you use a good chicken stock so that the soup is really flavoursome. If you prefer, substitute wontons or mini dim sims for the noodles and use vegies of your choice. The recipe is from my book Mini Chef – Cooking with Kids. Preparation [...]
When I was a kid, Sunday nights were special. That was the night my parents would take my sister and I to the Lean Sun Lowrestaurant in Dixon Street in Sydney’s Chinatown. They’d arrange to meet friends there and we kids would sit at a separate table, well away from the grown-ups, and have a [...]
This simple basic mixture is very versatile and you can use it can to make cupcakes, patty cakes or a light slab cake. If you trace the map of Australia on greaseproof paper and lay it over the top of the cooled cake, you can make a lamington cake for Australia Day. You can easily [...]
What’s on your Australia Day menu? Kanga burgers? Hot Smoked Lemon Myrtle Crocodile? Barramundi with Green Ants? Wattleseed pavlova? Just kidding. But it’s odd, isn’t it, how we still shy away from using native Australian ingredients in our cuisine. Here we live on a continent which offers up to 4,000 different varieties of edible bush [...]
This is a good dish to learn the basics of stir-frying. Make sure you have everything ready before you start cooking as the idea is to cook the food quickly. Combine the four sauce ingredients before you start. If you don’t like chillies, there’s no need to add them – the Thais love their food [...]
Hurry, hurry – book in now to my Mini Chef Kids Cooking Classes Junior Mduring the school holidays. My aim is to teach children to prepare a wholesome, nutritious meal which they love to eat and can reproduce easily at home. This is not celebrity chef restaurant-style food. Hygiene, nutrition – and loads of laughs [...]
The recipe for this attractive salad is from my latest book, The Cook’s Garden. It is of Middle Eastern origin and the combination of flavours and textures is very refreshing – the oily avocado flesh contrasting well with the pomegranate seeds and citrus fruits. In a serving bowl, whisk together the olive oil, lime or [...]
Cooking with Sheridan 100112The recipe for these delicious Lebanese meatballs is from my latest book, The Cook’s Garden. They are excellent served hot with drinks before dinner. Provide toothpicks so it’s easy to pick them up and put the raita in the centre of the dish. For the meatballs, put the onion, ginger, garlic and [...]
Hurry, hurry – book in now to my Mini Chef Kids Cooking Classes during the school holidays. My aim is to teach children to prepare a wholesome, nutritious meal which they love to eat and can reproduce easily at home. This is not celebrity chef restaurant-style food. Hygiene, nutrition – and loads of laughs – [...]
Happy new year. And hello summer! Here in Sydney, where I live, the sun is finally showing its face and the skies are blue. I’ve had a blissful few days at the beach and when I returned home yesterday, I could no longer put off the dreaded job of tackling my fridge. Ugh. It was [...]
