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Lemony Avocado Sauce

Lemony Avocado Sauce

This sauce is easy and quick to make.  The 2 basic ingredients you need are avocado and lemon juice.  Put into a blender, season with some salt and pepper and there you have it.  A delicious  sauce to liven up your salad, chicken, seafood, etc….  You can make it creamier  by adding  cream, creme fraiche, Read More…

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Video: Weston A Price Press Conference 14/2/2011

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Happy New Year 2011

Happy New Year 2011

Wishing each and everyone a Very Happy and Blessed New Year! Having been away for nearly 4 months, regular postings has not happened as I hope.  The whole month of January will take me away from home again, so I will most likely be posting from February onwards. I would like share with you a Read More…

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Beef, Mushroom & Guinness Stew

Beef, Mushroom & Guinness Stew

Beef, Mushroom & Guinness Stew (inspired by a recipe for Beef, Mushroom & Guinness Pie in Gourmet Traveller) Serves 2 Ingredients 60 gm Butter 1 onion, peeled and sliced 2 cloves garlic – finely chopped 500 gms stewing beef, cut into cubes 100 gm mushrooms, quartered 2 tbsp arrowroot flour 250 ml beef stock 200 Read More…

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Beautiful Sunday Morning

Beautiful Sunday Morning

A walk along the beach – Noosa ….

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Sourdough Rice Crackers

Sourdough Rice Crackers

With leftover cooked rice  in the fridge, I made these lovely crackers using the recipe from the book Wild Fermentation. Sourdough Rice Crackers Ingredients 1 cup leftover cooked rice 1/2 cup of sourdough starter 1/2 cup water 2 tbs melted coconut ghee 2 tbs sesame oil 1 cup spelt flour 1 tbs sea salt 4 Read More…

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Sardines with Kamut Pasta

Sardines with Kamut Pasta

Sardines are highly nutritious – rich in omega 3 fatty acids and a good source of vitamin D, calcium, B12 and protein.   I love fresh sardines and buy them whenever I spot them at Spanner Crab Noosa.  They are delicious simply pan fried or grilled. I have also used them to make fermented fish Read More…

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Duck & Mushroom Dumplings

Duck & Mushroom Dumplings

Max and I love Asian dumplings.  They are easy to make and the variations are endless.  I did one with duck and mushrooms recently.  Here is the recipe: Duck & Mushroom Dumplings Ingredients For the filling: 100 gm mushrooms (shiitake, oyster or swiss brown…), chopped 300 gm minced duck 100 gm minced fatty pork 1 Read More…

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Roast Tomato Sauce & Soup

Roast Tomato Sauce & Soup

A very versatile sauce made from ripe, full flavoured tomatoes.  Use it as base  for sauce,  stew or soup. Roast Tomato Sauce (recipe source: The River Cottage Cookbook) Ingredients 1 kg ripe organic tomatoes (like those pictured above) 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 tbs live oil sea salt & ground black pepper Method Cut Read More…

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Rillettes Ravioli

Rillettes Ravioli

These were made with left over pel’meni dough and pork cheek rillettes.  Quick and easy to put together.   After cooking the ravioli in salted boiling water, they were lightly pan fried in butter & garlic chives.

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