by Sheridan | Sep 15, 2019 | Dinner, Lunch, Recipes, Starters, Vegetarian
Warm Salad of Mizuna and Roasted Root Vegetables We have an abundance of green and red mizuna (Japanese mustard green or spider mustard) flourishing in our local Community Vegetable Garden at present. Similar in taste to rocket (arugula), mizuna is good...
by Sheridan | Sep 8, 2019 | Dinner, Lunch, Recipes, Soups, Starters, Vegetarian
Fennel and Smoked Salmon Soup We’ve been pulling up a lot of fennel bulbs in my local community vegetable patch of late. Some of the volunteers weren’t sure what to do with them apart from slicing and throwing them raw into a salad (they’re...
by Sheridan | Aug 18, 2019 | Desserts, Dinner, Lunch, Recipes
Chocolate Self-Sauce Pudding Here’s a good old-fashioned stand-by for all the family. Kids love it because the batter magically transforms into a moist chocolate sponge with a luscious chocolate sauce underneath. It’s also an easy one for them to...
by Sheridan | Aug 11, 2019 | Asian, Dinner, Lunch, Picnic, Recipes, Salads
Louise’s Citrus Brown Rice Salad This simple, lovely rice salad recipe was given to me by Louise Miller, a talented young freelance chef based on the Gold Coast who specialises in healthy natural organic dishes. “I like to use the...
by Sheridan | Aug 4, 2019 | Dinner, Lunch, Main Courses, Meat, Recipes
Beef with Olives Provencale Style Here’s a tasty hearty dish from the south of France to warm you up on a winter night from my Food Year (Simon & Schuster 1997) cookbook. Look for those tiny, flavoursome Nicoise (or Ligurian) olives to round...
by Sheridan | Jul 21, 2019 | Asian, Dinner, Lunch, Main Courses, Recipes, Vegetarian
Sweet Chilli Jam We had an excess of chillies in the local community vegetable garden recently and Sylvia, one of the volunteers, sent me this fabulous recipe from Jude Blereau’s Wholefood Cooking (I took the liberty of halving the amount of sugar)....
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