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 [...]
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Spiced Carrot Soup
With nutritious homemade stock, a touch of warming spices, healthy fats from the coconut and fresh carrots (from Wonderworld Organics), I made this very satisfying and nourishing soup. Spiced Carrot Soup Ingredients * 450 ml coconut milk * 3 cups homemade stock * 1/2 lime, juiced * 1 onion (medium size), peeled and sliced * [...]
Spiced Beef Soup Vietnamese Style
This simple beef soup with warming spices is perfect for cold winter nights. Spiced Beef Soup Vietnamese Style Inspired by Charmaine Solomon’s recipe for Pho (Vietnamese Beef and Rice Noodle Soup) Ingredients 1 litre of homemade beef broth 10 whole black peppercorns 2 star anise 3 cardamon pods 3 cloves 1 sprig of celery leaves [...]
Beef Broth
Beef Broth (Recipe from Jessica Prentice’s Full Moon Feast. ) Ingredients A few large beef soup bones, knuckle bones or marrow bones 1-2 tbs tallow or other fat An oxtail, some short ribs, a couple of shanks or other meaty bones Filtered water to cover A tablespoon of white wine or other vinegar (I use [...]
My favourite mushrooms
I love mushrooms especially shiitake, oyster, enoki, wood ear and where I come from (Singapore) they are commonplace, you find them everywhere at the supermarkets and wet markets. Here in Australia where I am they are hard to find and are considered gourmet and exotic and quite pricey. Nevertheless, I was delighted when I [...]
French Onion Soup (without the tears)
The rain and cool weather of the last few days put us in the mood for some warm hearty soup. With slow simmered beef stock all ready to go, Max suggested we make soupe a l‘oignon gratinee. Knowing it is not my favourite part of making onion soup, he volunteered to do the peeling and [...]