Peppermint crisp ice cream
Posted on 19. Dec, 2011 by Marina in Food & Drink
Ice cream is a hallmark of summer. Learning to make it from scratch will change the way you eat it and set you sailing from the realm of vanilla scoops with chocolate sauce off and away into a sunset of gourmet sorbets and fresh fruit fiestas and perhaps, this a crispy peppermint adventure. Ingredients: 2 cups [...]
Choosing cheese for the perfect platter
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by Renée Nesbitt in Food & Drink
A cheese platter needs no occasion, but it is a wonderful addition to any festive gathering. Whether being served as a starter or in the place of a dessert, the secret ingredient is diversity. It is the perfect opportunity to introduce your guests to different tastes and flavour combinations while also pleasing all palates. When [...]
Presents with a little thought: Olive tapenade
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by Renée Nesbitt in Food & Drink
Delicious on a cheese platter, tossed through pasta or on a gourmet sandwich (such as this mufuletta) olive tapenade is ridiculously easy to make in relation to how tasty it is. Ready, steady, go! Ingredients: 1 ½ cups (approximately 250g when drained) Calamata olives, pitted 2 tbsp capers 1 garlic clove, finely chopped Juice of [...]
Presents with a little thought: Pear and cranberry chutney
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by Renée Nesbitt in Food & Drink
This pear and cranberry chutney recipe is an absolute gem. It has a beautiful rich colour and is delicious when enjoyed with a selection of cheeses (especially a mature cheddar). The perfect complement to many meat dishes and roasts, it’s just in time for this Christmas’s gammon. Ingredients: 6 pears, peeled and diced 1 onion, [...]
What to pair with different cheeses
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by Renée Nesbitt in Food & Drink
Cheese platter accompaniments serve to enhance the flavour experience as well as cleanse the palette. Suzy O’Regan, dairy product developer at Woolworths believes that the focus should remain on the cheese: “It’s lovely to scatter handfuls of mixed nuts onto a cheese board, everything in abundance. I must say that for me cheese is always the [...]
Zesty Salmon Fritters
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by Renée Nesbitt in Food & Drink
Great for a lazy lunch or cocktail party on a warm day, these salmon fritters are easy and incredibly tasty. This recipe makes approximately 24 fritters (each about 5cm in diameter). Ingredients: 1 can (415g) pink salmon 1 egg 3 tablespoons flour 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon green curry paste 2 teaspoons fish sauce [...]
Candy Cane Cookies
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
One of my favourite childhood memories is baking Christmas cookies – though I didn’t always stick to Christmas theme and five-year-old me would invariably get distracted and start making giraffes, hippos and Noah’s Ark instead. In any event Christmas baking is still one of my favourite things, especially sugar cookies with pretty decorations. This year [...]
White Chocolate Buttercream Icing
Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
Ingredients: 125g butter 4 cups icing sugar 3 tbs milk 100g white chocolate (Cadbury Dream works well) Method: 1. Melt the white chocolate, either on the stove top or in the microwave. Set aside. 2. Cream the butter with an electric mixer until soft. 3. Slowly add two cups of icing sugar, as well as [...]
Cuisipro Cupcake Corer Review & Raspberry White Chocolate Cupcakes
Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
I absolutely love making cupcakes of all shapes and flavours, so when the team at Spatula asked me to review this Cuisipro toolset I was more than happy to oblige. My cupcakes usually consist of cake plus icing, but with the cupcake corer I was able to add some delicious filled centres to that already winning combination. And [...]
Zesty fish in yesterday’s news
Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by Lisa in Food & Drink
So Jamie started this, but we’re not sure who started started it. It’s oh-so-good and works a treat every time. Somehow newspaper turns cool on the coals, who knew? Ingredients: White fish (hake, angel fish etc) an orange 1 tbsp apricot jam, 1 tbsp oregano/basil a few glugs olive oil lots of salt and pepper [...]
