Dried apples

A watercolour image of a wooden platter of home made dried red-skinned apples.Using the Triangle Food Tool Library dehydrator

Ingredients:

As many apples as can fit on drying racks
¼ cup lemon juice (can add more if you like zingy apples)
500 ml water

Method

Wash, peel (if you want), core and slice apples about 0.5 cm thick.

Mix water and lemon juice then dip apples into solution to prevent browning.

Place on drying racks … Read more »

Green tomato pickles

A cluster of four striped green tomatoes on the vine.We made this at last year’s pickling workshop at the Food Tool Library it’s based on a Sally Wise recipe.

Ingredients:

1.5 kg green tomatoes – finely chopped
500 g onion – finely chopped
1½ tbsp salt (with no iodine or anti-caking agents)
1½ cups cider vinegar
¼ tsp ground black pepper
500 g sugar
4 tbsp cider vinegar – extra
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Dalithoy (Konkani lentils)

by bhagya

Bowl of Dalithoy (Konkani lentils) - yellow lentils with leaves, seeds and a green chili podIngredients:

1 cup toor dal (available at Coles)
a pinch of turmeric
2 green chillies, split lengthwise or sliced
coriander leaves

For the tadka:
1 teaspoon black mustard seeds
1 dry red chilli
8 to 10 curry leaves
½ teaspoon asafoetida (available
at Candelo Wholefoods or Gulaga Organics or just skip it)
1 … Read more »

Bowl of fish curry

Mangalore Fish Curry

Bowl of fish curryby bhagya

Ingredients:

500 grams firm white fish in large boneless chunks (kingfish, swordfish, marlin, ling are good)
1 onion, very finely chopped
4 green chillies, slit
¾ cup coconut milk
oil, as required
2 tablespoons ground coriander
1 tablespoon ground red chilli
25 grams tamarind*
1 tablespoon ground turmeric
a handful of curry leaves
salt to taste

Method:

1. Toss the fish with a pinch … Read more »

Fish Chow Mein

by Linda Sang

Ingredients:

250 g fine egg noodles
2 cm (3/4 in) knob of fresh ginger
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oil
500 g firm white fish fillets cut into 2 cm squares
2 or 3 eggs
Oil to fry
Half a small cauliflower, thinly sliced
1 medium carrot thinly sliced
6 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked in … Read more »

Fruit cheesecake

by Marita Reynolds

Ingredients

155g Granita biscuits
75g butter
825g can fruit salad in juice
1 tablespoon powdered gelatine
375g cream cheese
½ cup caster sugar
1 cup whipped cream

Directions

Grease the bottom and sides of a 9-inch (23 cm) springform cake tin. 

Crush the Granita biscuits (I place them in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin) and place them in a small mixing bowl. 

Separate the … Read more »