This beef-in-broth dish is a good one for your repertoire. It is easy to make, can be prepared the day before and is handy for large numbers. With the ingredients of ginger, garlic, pepper, soy, star anise and cinnamon, it sings of the flavours of Asia ....
ZOE'S WALNUT CRISPBREAD
Jan’s daughter-in-law, Zoe, came up with these fabulous Walnut Crispbreads. They are quite rich and make a delicious base for all sorts of canapés. We’ve topped one with goats’ cheese and tobiko (flying fish roe) and the other with gravalax, pickled cucumber and dill and mustard sauce but the toppings will only be limited by imagination and what’s on hand in the fridge ....
PICKLE IT
A DELICIOUS FAMILY TRADITION
SAUTEED MUSHROOMS WITH RICE-CAKES AND SWEET SOY
I’m a big fan of Melbourne chef Andrew McConnell and I thought I’d like to recreate a dish I’d read about from his new restaurant, Supernormal. I can guarantee that the following would be nothing like his original, but when I made it for our gang of friends recently, we all loved it – happily ignorant, of course, of what we were really missing ....
CHEESEY SHORTBREAD
GLORIOUS ONIONS
AN EASY, LUSCIOUS ALMOND CAKE
This is a really quick and easy recipe, making a good all-purpose cake, delicious for the gluten-tolerant as well as intolerant. It can be served plain or iced, topped or bottomed with whatever takes your fancy, split and filled, studded with fresh berries in summer or topped with poached quinces in winter ...
SPECIAL OF THE DAY
SASHIMI ETC.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
A VERY VEGO CHRISTMAS
The lead up to Christmas sees the lifestyle media go into over-drive with ideas for Christmas food. (A bit like we’ve done here at The Coeliac’s Revenge.) There are dozens of thoughts on ways to dress the ham and turkey, what seafood to buy and what pudding is best and so on. Yet we’ve observed that there is little on offer for the vegetarians amongst us, particularly amongst the gluten-free suggestions ....
BARBECUED CORN AND GREEN BEAN SALAD WITH MEXICAN SPICES.
REVENGE ALMOND FOCACCIA WITH ROSEMARY AND OLIVES
RICOTTA, CHOCOLATE AND PISTACHIO CHRISTMAS TREE CAKE
WITLOF, ROCKET, FENNEL, BROCCOLINI, CHILLI AND GARLIC SALAD
ROAST PARMESAN POTATOES
ROAST, STUFFED CHICKEN ROLLS WITH ARTICHOKES, SAGE AND SPECK
The chicken rolls in this recipe can be stuffed the day before and stored in the fridge. All other ingredients can be thrown together in no time. The potatoes are already cooked and can be 'par browned' in the oven before the chicken goes in and, while the chicken is resting, popped back in to finish browning. All the salad ingredients can be prepared before hand and tossed together at the last minute ....














