Spinach paper can be eaten as a tasty crunchy vegetarian snack or as one of those decorative add-ons chefs are embellishing their food with these days. Super simple and easy to make: this only takes a couple of ingredients, a silicone baking mat and hours of spare oven time. Ingredients:
If you want to impress your dinner guests and enjoy a fresh, super satisfying and easy to prepare entree, this creation should be at the top of your list. The tartare dish as we know it today originated in France in the mid-19th century and was made from horse meat.
For me one of the many levels of ‘heaven’ is attained through rhythmically fashioning pasta fresco on my old Imperia lamination pasta machine. The repetitive winding and folding of the lamination process soothes one’s soul until you arrive at that silky smooth texture of perfecto pasta passing between your
I am always looking for an alternate, aesthetic and interesting way to present the carbohydrates on a dinner plate. Mille feuille (thousand leaves) potato or sweet potato is a classy way to jazz up your dinner plate, providing you have plenty of spare time on your hands or an able
Anistatia Renard Miller University of Bristol Recipients of the 2021 Helen David Lifetime Achievement Award from Tales of the Cocktail, industry legend Anistatia Miller who along with husband Jared Brown are multi-award winning drinks historians who have been writing about the drinks industry since 1995. More people, particularly young people,
A Frenched rack of lamb is one that has been fashioned to an elegant finish. Trimmed of all its excess fat, sinews and bones are left with a thin layer of fat on the top side for flavour and three clean little fingers of bone poking out of the meat,
particle.scitech.org.au Meet the WA farmers making insects a pantry staple and whip up some gingerbug biscuits this Christmas. Originally, Coolup farmers Paula Pownall and Amanda Abou Rjeily wanted to farm insects for animal feed. But after a surprising number of enquiries from insect-hungry humans, the business-savvy women
Mrs Korau * 1 x 454 gram tin crushed pineapple * 500 grams dried fruit (sultanas, currants, dates) * 1 teaspoon baking soda * 1 teaspoon mixed spice * 100 grams (4 oz) butter * Three fifths cup sugar [Ed. note: try 1/3 plus 1/4 cup] * 1¾ cups flour * 1 teaspoon baking powder * 2
The jolly time of year comes around more quickly the older one gets. “Christmas cheer” and Chanukah’s unhealthy but tasty oily foods are back upon us before we even know it. The deep-fried doughnut has several versions. In Northern Europe it is traditionally filled with jam and dusted with
As an entree, or for whetting one’s appetite before a swanky meal, pate of chicken, goose or duck liver can be a tasty and attractive option. Usually delivered in tandem with dainty toasts or crostini, the diner will relish the opportunity to be an active participant in the meal,
As an entree, or for whetting one’s appetite before a swanky meal, pate of chicken, goose or duck liver can be a tasty and attractive option. Usually delivered in tandem with dainty toasts or crostini, the diner will relish the opportunity to be an active participant in the meal,
Staying with Thanksgiving. Once the turkey has been consumed, it is customary to round off the festive feast with a traditional dessert. The pumpkin pie is the quintessential go-to Thanksgiving dessert, and I personally put it in the same category as rhubarb pie: most pretend to enjoy them if they
Thanksgiving is just around the corner: a big deal in North America but not so much anywhere else. As an Israeli/Kiwi, I was completely ignorant of Thanksgiving until I began working for the United States Consul General and his family in Jerusalem back in 2017. The Thanksgiving table is
This is one of my favourites. It’s classy, tasty and relatively easy to make. The thigh is the juiciest part of the bird. While most recipes in cookbooks and on the internet call for using chicken breast, I rarely use it as it is the driest and least rewarding
You don’t really need to know about tuiles, but it’s always nice to have an inkling regarding their purpose and contribution to the culinary world. Tuiles is French for roof tiles and is called such as tuiles were once shaped like a roof tile. Times have since moved
Down there in NZ you might still be able to catch your own fresh bounty from the oceans and put a nice piece of fish on the table for lunch or supper. Throughout the rest of the world, this is little more than a romantic hunting and gathering urge from
