Have a jar or two of Candied Quinces in your larder, some whipped cream or ice cream and you’ll have a delicious dessert on the table in an instant. Or use them, as we’ve done, in our Quince and Almond Cream Cake, or our Candied Quince and Ricotta Cake. Try replacing the rhubarb with Candied Quinces in our Rhubarb, Orange and Almond Tart ….
I make a lovely honey mousse – yes, I know I shouldn’t be saying it myself – but it has a really luscious but melting texture..
n the lead-up to a wedding in the family, (catering for a completely gluten-free reception for 40 people, but more of that later) my husband came home with some shopping, beaming, because he’d managed to score 14 punnets of beautiful strawberries for $7.50...
I’m very lucky to live near the Sydney fish markets. I try to time my shopping to avoid the weekend rush and the madness of the carpark, but in the middle of Chinese New Year...
We have an avocado tree in our garden, which provides us with a good supply of avocados most of the year. Despite sharing them with the birds, fruit bats and friends, we often have a surplus, so I decided to try my hand at preserving a few for the odd lean month and to pack into handsome jars to give as gifts ....
Here in the southern hemisphere, summer fruit is everywhere and we’re loving it. And just to ease ourselves out of our celebratory holiday mode and back into the working year, we’ve combined a refreshing summer tipple with the abundance of berry fruit to make a simple, delicious and pretty healthy dessert to kick off our blogging year ....
A generously laden Christmas table needs a main event, a dish or two around which all others are planned, and here we have two suggestions which will make very handsome additions to your festive feasting. The first is a whole fish which is perfect for feeding a crowd. The second is a butterflied, pork neck which is first marinated then stuffed and rolled ....
