Roast Cauliflower Cous Cous & Almond Macaroons

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RECIPEpic3Linda Sang

One of my favourite things to enjoy over winter is cauliflower. Such a sweet satisfying vegetable. Good for those of us looking at reducing carbohydrates. This recipe for cauliflower couscous can be eaten as a side dish with anything in place of regular wheat-based couscous or potatoes. You can extend the basic dish by adding chick peas or broad beans, chopped tomatoes, rocket and/or baby spinach and you have a gluten-free vegan dish you can eat at room temperature or hot.

Roast Cauliflower Couscous serves 4 – 6

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Keralan baked fish

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FISH2Nikki Hutteman

(serves 6),

3 brown onions
4 cloves of garlic
30 cm piece of fresh ginger
2 fresh red chillies, deseeded
1 large bunch of fresh coriander leaves picked
1 red pepper, deseeded
1 yellow pepper, deseeded
oil /ghee or butter, large knob or good splash of either
2 teaspoons brown mustard seeds
2 teaspoons fenugreek seeds
2 teaspoons fennel seeds
1 handful of curry leaves
big chunk of fresh tuna from Bermagui, enough to feed 6, … Read more »

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Chicken and Ham Terrine

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Jenny Halliday

Now that we are coming up to the festive season and some warm weather, I thought it might be nice to have a cold dish that could be served on Christmas Day.

  • 1 ham hock
  • 2 sticks of celery, chopped roughly
  • 1 carrot, chopped roughly
  • 2 Onions, quartered
  • 2 fresh bay leaves
  • 1 chicken – 1.8kg, halved lengthways
  • 2 cups parsley
  • 3 titanium – strength gelatine leaves, softened … Read more »

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Seafood Marinara Sauce

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Georgina Adamson

That, served with Il Passaggio pasta, would stretch to feed a mob and give everyone a taste of the sea. 

This recipe will serve 4-6.

1. Start with a good tomato base. Soften 4 cloves of garlic, crushed, and a diced medium onion in a generous amount of olive oil. Then add one tin (or 3 fresh diced) tomatoes, three tablespoons of tomato paste, ¾ cup of white … Read more »

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Broad Beans (Salad & Hummus)

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We all love spring. As a newbie gardener I am very excited to come back after a month      away to see the broad beans that were sown months ago laden with pods. If your broad beans are young enough they don’t need to be double peeled,
but in most cases after shelling your pods of beans, you blanch them in boiling salted water for a minute or so, refresh them in cold water and then peel the outer skin of … Read more »

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