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Crepes, Susan?
The title-pun of this post is in honour of my most enduring – some might say longest-suffering – friend. She lives more than three hours away by plane. Which is a pity, because, if she lived nearby,...
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Mushroom & leek soup
As a child, the only edible mushrooms I knew about came buttered and stewed, in a tin, and were eaten as a side dish with a grilled piece of steak. Sad but true! Even as an adult, cooking mostly...
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In-digest: week-and-a-bit ending 2 August 2015
Thai, French, Italian, English, Filipino, Chinese, Euro-Turkish-Indian crossover and au naturel – we have prepared and eaten dishes from all of these cuisines over the last week or so, with varying...
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Cheap(ish fish)thrills
For more than two decades, Atlantic Salmon have been grown in controlled environments off the coast of Tasmania. For a few years, the retail price of the salmon was quite high but, as production...
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mwlpc.org.au
Welcome to the home page of the Mount Waverley Lemon Preservation Co-operative. Our humble organisation is dedicated to the preservation of lemons, all lemons, irrespective of variety, colour, size or...
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Wise chefs from the east give us a tip
Two singles and a double – that’s how many word-plays there are in the title of this post. I just … can’t resist … the temptation; I probably should apologise, or blush. So, let me talk sensibly for a...
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In-digest: week ending 16 August 2015
With just over three weeks left ’til we fly to London, Maggie and I have been quite busy crossing off items on our ‘to-do’ list. However, we still made time last week to prepare some delicious meals....
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Moorish Marylands
This delicious Moroccan-flavoured dish is one of several we added to our repertoire after we bought a Weber Q at the end of 2012. Using the Weber as an oven produces a result that is moist and evenly...
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Seasonal scallops in the spotlight
Last month, I wrote enthusiastically about a dish we prepared of Tasmanian scallops, wrapped in prosciutto and roasted. Think of this as the sea-quel. Over the last few months we have settled on new...
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Nest eggs
Eggs, bacon, mushrooms – what’s not to like, with some thyme, garlic and cream added to the mix? And look, hassle-free plating and only one cooking pan. When Julian & Sara married in December 2012,...
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A treat of a pumpkin dish, no tricking
This recipe began with a search through our Italian-influenced cookbooks for a dish that would make good use of some leftover ricotta. I found what I was looking for in a collection compiled by...
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A pair of favourites
Late last week, Maggie and I spent a couple of hours making two very different foods with pears, each dish a favourite, each one using a different variety of pear. First, it was Maggie’s favourite...
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Rack ’em Danno
Maggie and I returned from Europe in the second week of October, slap bang in the middle of Spring-lamb season. Although the supply of quality cuts of lamb is not as seasonal as it once was, it is...
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In-digest: week ending 6 December 2015
It’s been a few months since I last wrote a post about noteworthy dishes that Maggie and I had cooked in the preceding week. Not that there hasn’t been a whole mess of cooking going on! It’s just that...
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In-digest: week ending 13 December 2015
In common with my late mother, I particularly enjoy the festive season for the opportunity it brings to prepare special items of delicious food, and share them with friends and family. This year, I...
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Why did the tomato turn red?
Because it saw the salad dressing. Hah, hah, hah! That’s exactly the kind of corny, pun-based joke that Maggie’s late father, Noel used to crack and, much to my son’s embarrassment, I let slip quite...
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Our seasonal seafood saga
In the lead-up to Christmas, my father requested a meal of crayfish, and my son, Julian and his wife, Sara simply said they would like a variety of seafood. That suited Maggie and me just fine – we...
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Christmas seafood recipes
As promised in my previous post, here are the recipes for the seafood dishes that we prepared to share with our family at Christmas. Crayfish salad Well, this wasn’t too difficult. The folks at Eat...
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At the base of the J-curve
So, as of Christmas Day 2015, I am the happy owner of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Happy, despite the fact that this book was first published in 1961 and has not been updated since 1983. Happy,...
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More Moorish
In August 2015, I published a post about chicken marylands that we had marinated with Moroccan flavours and then roasted in our Weber Q. Last week, we prepared another batch of the marinade and applied...
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