Pistou
Pistou is similar to Ligurian pesto (basil pesto), but it doesn’t contain pine nuts. Serve with smoked fish, roasted or barbecued vegetables, roast beef or chicken.
Recipes
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Nectarine Frangipane Tart
Make the most of seasonal fruit … and cheat a bit using ready-made pastry!
Mushrooms Stuffed with Chorizo & Tomato
Banging mushrooms with loads of flavour!
- Breakfast | Brunchy Things | Dinner | Hero Vege | Summer
Creamed Corn with Tarragon
This is such a lovely combination, creamy and sweet, with a gentle liqourice-vanilla note from tarragon as a backdrop.
Cyclone Chicken
This is quite likely the most delicious chicken I have ever eaten.
- Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Hero Vege | Lunch | Summer
Late Summer Ratatouille
Roll on lazy weekend … this is the perfect dish to go with bread and salad, a quiche or tart.
Rum Plums with Almonds & Coconut
Plums and rum. It works!
Peach & Raspberry Crumble
Peaches and raspberries … must be summertime!
Gazpacho – a chill thrill!
Like a blast of cold air from a fan up your shirt or skirt on a sweltering day … Yup! Icy cold gazpacho is exhilarating!
American Brownies
Wickedly naughty is all there is to say about these brownies.
- Autumn/Fall | Hero Vege | Lunch | Summer
Sweet Corn & Beans
Add this bowl of sunshine to your summer repertoire.
- Dinner | Main Events | Summer
Spicy Fruit Salad with Sugared Chicken Skewers
Exhilarating and fresh, juicy pineapple, red chilli and skewered chicken.
Roast Turkey with Herbed Veal Stuffing & Spicy Fruit Stuffing
Here’s the full monty, including two gorgeous stuffings – our family favourites. Shame about the photo – will try to remember to take a photo this year before starting on the bubbly!
- Brunchy Things | Dinner | Drinks | Free Recipes | Lunch | Spring
Purple Asparagus Bruschetta
The sun was shining, the grill was on, and so I charred some sourdough.
Prawn, Mango & Avo Salad
Sublime, simply sublime.
A Basque-style Cheesecake
One of the best examples of this delicious dessert.
Quick Apricot Tarts
Seasonal, simple, succulent.
Green Olive & Thyme Focaccia
Enriching a basic bread dough with olive oil gives a soft, open-textured bread that is sublime for tearing apart and thrusting into soft, fragrant mounds of hummus, beetroot or bean purée or just more olive oil.
Hot-smoked Salmon & Snow Pea Salad
This is THE dish for a summery lunch in the shade, or to share with friends on a summer’s evening.
Baked Asparagus
Lovely and golden, crispy-tipped, and savoury notes from parmesan and rosemary. Definitely worth making!
Chicken Burgers with Marinated Zucchini
It’s summertime, sum, sum, sum, sum SUMMER-TIME! Burgertime! Eat outdoor time! Yeah.
Chocolate Crêpes with Strawberries
Chocolate. Yum. Strawberries. Double Yum. You get the idea …
- Dinner | Drinks | Lunch | Wraps & Stacks
Quesadilla with Black Bean & Tangelo Salad
This is a crowd pleaser when you’re stuffed after a day at the beach, the kids are squealing and everyone wants feeding NOW. Get the work done ahead, or use leftovers, and kids onto them!
- Dinner | Main Events | Show Off | Spring
Lamb Cutlets with Baked Feta
Three of my favourite things: lamb, feta and pine nuts. Scrumptious!
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