Recipes

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 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.

It may be too late in the season to make it now, but the recipe will keep.

Lemon drizzle cake usually has a icing as well, but I prefer a dusting of icing sugar.

Potato salad has many versions. This is my latest.

An unusual soup, surprisingly refreshing, from a 19th century cookbook

This is my go-to salad, made with what’s in the house.

In 2020, during an early lockdown, I was asked to devise recipes to suit the Thursday concerts on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.

One of my favourite dishes – to eat, and to cook. It’s a bit fiddly, which has made it perfect for lockdown cooking.

Years ago, when I first started making marmalade, I worried that the commercial crops of Seville oranges would disappear.