Category: Winter

Barley Pilaf with Tomatoes

Comfort food in a bowl – barley pilaff is great with a roast chicken, but it’s also pretty good on its own!

Roasted Capsicum & Butternut Pumpkin Soup with Chorizo Crumb

A sprinkle of spicy chorizo crumb gives Ilaria’s soup a bit of oomph!

Pasta with Chorizo Sausage & Cavolo Nero

Try this on a chilly night – it’ll warm you down to your boots!

Mandarins – juicy with a sweet-sharp tang

Easy peel mandarins are the perfect snack anytime.

Brussels Sprouts & Mandarin Salad

When you get bored with Brussels sprouts, turn them into a salad. This is delicious, I kid you not.

Cauliflower with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? Not here! Something much more exciting!

Hot Smoked Salmon & Celeriac Gratin

Whoa, steady on! This is rich, as in old-fashioned Frenchified rich, dripping with cream.

Celeriac & Beetroot Salad

Crisp, crunchy, nutty, tangy, all the elements to excite your palate before a fancy-pants dinner.

Stuffed Pumpkin – Crunchy golden topped

Get stuffing – PUMPKINS!

Oven-baked Smoked Paprika Fries

Fries! We go back a long way. You could say I know a good one when I eat one.

Squash & Coriander Soup

Yeah, grey day, soup, Bob and Noble, just going to rock it.

Spaghetti all’Amatriciana – Midweek made easy!

A dedication to the town of Amatrice and her people.

Bean & Chorizo Stew

Throw some Spanish piquillo peppers or char-grilled bell pepper, black olives and a smattering of orange zest on top of this casserole and things become wildly exotic!

Crêpe Cake with Apple Marmelade, Honey Cream & Crushed Praline

This is one of those OHMYGOD! cakes – simply sensational!!!

Apple Galettes

You got 10 minutes? That’s all it takes to assemble these irresistible morsels.

Slow-cooked Beef Cheeks with Balsamic

Meltingly tender, richly flavoured, perfect for chilly days.

French Roasted Chicken with Verjuice

Get your groove on with this chicken mamma – it’s so amazing!

Grilled Broccolini with Feta

Skinny green stems never tasted so good.

Baked Potatoes in White Wine – time to revisit

White wine keeps the interior of these potatoes nice and fluffy, but the outsides develop a good golden crunch. Pretty good, yep.

Peas in a soup? Yeah! Thick, warming, intriguing … oh, and speedy, and requiring little more than a bag of frozen peas and a few spices. This was so popular last week, I’ve kept it up for another blast!