Pasta fagioli
Pasta e fagioli - pasta and bean soup - is one of those simple Italian dishes that can be found the length and breadth of the country.
Mushroom souffle
Mushroom souffle is one of my there’s-not-much-in-the-fridge dishes - apart from mushrooms, milk, butter, cheese. And a good bottle of chardonnay or pinot noir.
Orange (or lemon) drizzle cake
Lemon drizzle cake usually has a icing as well, but I prefer a dusting of icing sugar.
Sauerkraut and dried mushroom soup
An unusual soup, surprisingly refreshing, from a 19th century cookbook
Carrot soup
In 2020, during an early lockdown, I was asked to devise recipes to suit the Thursday concerts on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.
Spinach and ricotta gnocchi
One of my favourite dishes – to eat, and to cook. It’s a bit fiddly, which has made it perfect for lockdown cooking.
Seville Orange Marmalade
Years ago, when I first started making marmalade, I worried that the commercial crops of Seville oranges would disappear.
This month I am in the thick of making preserves.
So far, two batches of fig jam, tomato chutney, and green tomatoes pickles. And did I mention the marrow chutney?
This week I am cooking for more than two
Now that restrictions are eased, I have had the pleasure of cooking for the family (although not all of them at one time yet), and for friends.
This week I am enjoying the beginning of Spring
Enjoying the beginning of spring, even as it lurches from winter to spring and backwards and forwards again until it is summer.
Not long ago I cooked with a Sher wagyu fillet of beef
What a challenge: what could I do with a whole fillet? These are the dishes I made: beef stroganoff; Russian-style beef pies…
This week I am cooking for weeks during COVID-19
I've been cooking for weeks during COVID-19. And now we are confined to home in Victoria, I'm cooking more. Interesting, how my cooking has changed
This week I am cooking with truffles
It's the season, and it's a very good season, too, in Western Australia (where most of Australia's truffles are grown) and also in Victoria.
This week I am baking cakes
Specifically cheesecakes, and even more specifically, ricotta cheesecakes. I had an idea, some flavours in my mind, and went searching for recipes.