Virginia White
Now that apples are at their best it’s a good time to use them for cooking as well as eating fresh.
1.5kg tart cooking apples, peeled and cored
100g unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
90ml Calvados (optional)
1 vanilla bean, split
3 large eggs
2 large egg yolks
300ml double cream
Linda Sang
At the end of March my remarkable grandmother of 111 years died peacefully in her sleep after not eating for one day. We Chinese take our food seriously! We called her Pau Pau and
when I was small our family would go to her semi-detached house in Bondi Beach for Sunday lunch. There would be a large array of dishes, all tasting different from my other grandmother’s fare, who was an equally wonderful cook. After our mother died my sister and I had the … Read more »
Linda Sang
250g dried fine egg noodles
3 cm knob of fresh ginger peeled and grated
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp light oil
500g firm white fish fillets (ling is good) cut in 2 cm squares
2 eggs
Oil to fry
½ small cauliflower thinly sliced,
1 medium carrot cut into matchsticks
6 dried shitake mushrooms, soaked for an hour or so … Read more »
Lynne Ford
1.5 kilo free range chicken
Sea salt & black pepper
4 sprigs lemon thyme (leaves)
1 tablespoon of ghee or virgin olive oil
8 small bulbs of spring onions or use halves of a spring onion which would include some green
4 cloves of garlic
3 small fennel bulbs
375 ml apple cider
375 ml vegetable or chicken stock
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Lynne Ford
1 kg ripe plums, halved, stones removed
40 g brown sugar plus 1 teaspoon extra for sprinkling later
Vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon gluten free cornflour
Topping:
130 g spelt flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 teaspoons brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 egg
55 g unsalted butter (melted and cooled)
Georgina Adamson
Nothing nicer than a slice of fluffy sponge cake with cream and fresh summer
fruits. Replace flour with Gluten Free alternative. Quick and easy to ‘whip up’.
4 eggs separated (fresh from local chooks, so much nicer). Take out of the fridge
earlier to reach room temperature.
¾ cup caster sugar
1/3 cup each plain, SR and cornflour.
½ tsp baking powder (or … Read more »
