technique

Leek and Feta Tart

Ingredients Serves 6 This one cooked up by the kids from the Adelaide Showground Farmers Market for the Adelaide Botanic Garden's Foundation Kitchen Garden. 1 pre baked tart shell ( 6 inch)1 leek, sliced20g paris creek butter10ml Coriole olive oil2 medium potatoes, thinly sliced30g parmesan cheese, grated200g Alexandrian Fleurieu Feta...

Chocolate coated honeycomb bar

Honey Money Days is an annual fund raiser for Animals Asia's rescued moon bears, keeping a couple of hundred rescued bears happy and in top top health costs a bit of cash so visit the site and see if you can help. The kids at Adelaide showgrounds farmers market did...

Not all milk is created equal...

Pictures of happy herds on rolling lush pastures on labels may not always be the case. Imagine if the milk you drank was purchased at marginal prices from dairy farmers far and wide . The cows were in "full housing" and not free to access real pasture for the duration...

three cheese souffle spaghetti

Ingredients Serves 6 A Pasta dish with some great local cheeses from the South Australian Cheesefest weekend 500 g pack san remo hollow spaghetti50 g grated Alexandrina Romano *100 g Woodside Cheese Wrights Mclaren cut into 4 mm thick slices60 ml olive oil30 g b.-d. Farm Paris Creek butter40 g...

Free range pig crispy skin Berkshire pig belly

was on the menu for a hands on cooking class at Sticky Rice Cooking School in the Adelaide Hills along with hand dived wild scallops in burnt chilli sambal, poached free range Barossa Farm Produce chooks. Crispy skin Berkshire free range pig belly Serves 6 with rice as main INGREDIENTS...

Organic coconut palm sugar grilled pineapple and banana, chili and lime sorbet.

December, and the quality of pineapples and bananas in local markets is great so this recipe went on a cooking class or three over the last month. It works really well with a few mango cheeks thrown in and is a perfect warmer weather desert with a hint of savoury...

Triple B Biodynamic grass fed shabu shabu

The Willunga Farmers Market celebrated it birthday on Saturday February 26th. William the Rooster ( the market mascot from the original "old" market location) was ceremoniously instated at his new home in the town square by Zannie Flanagan. No doubt he'll be keeping an eye on things for many years...

figs, cameras and cookbooks

First Fig for the year on my White Adriatic tree, Alan Benson snapped it before it was chucked into the oven with a few Willabrand brown turkeys and baked. Part of an up comming ( finally !) cookbook due out with Lantern later in the year....heres a little excerpt ,...

Ocean jacket trunk, buckwheat noodle in light miso broth

Ocean jacket trunk, buckwheat noodle in light miso broth Serves 2 as a main Ingredients Soup½ leek end , chopped½ small daikon, chopped3 dried shitake mushroomsMushroom stems from enoki (below used in garnish)1 onion, halved 1 clove garlicA 3cm piece Kombu Seaweed1 tablespoon dried anchovy 800-1000ml water3 tablespoons white miso...

This little piggy

Ok , this picture of the crispy pig belly looks nice enough but could you eat it while thinking about images of sow stalls , farrowing crates , pigs crammed in sheds ?Thankfully the Australian Pork Limited's decision last year to phase out sow stalls voluntarily by 2017 should improve...

lamb with a conscience

There are a growing number of lamb producers who have built a production process around the welfare of their flock. This is one of the happier food industry scenarios whereby the product not only tastes better but these farmers can command a better price for their toil and the sheep...

Stepping on eggshells...free range eggs

If you are buying free range eggs there are a few things to consider. You may be surprised to learn that do not have a national enforceable independent certification system that applies to the whole industry like the EU has. This is truly a case a buyer beware and not...

salt baked MSC Spencer Gulf King prawn with "sort of " nouc mam cham

Serves 4 as a generous entree This method of cooking relies on super heated rock salt and "burying" the whole prawns in it to cook. The result is a paper thin head, tail and carapace ( fancy word for the prawns mid section , shell , feet and flippers) ,...

lucky prawns

Some 25 000 tonnes of prawns are caught from Australian waters per year. A great deal of these will end up on our tables on Christmas day, our enthusiasm for "chucking a prawn on the BBQ," has become almost ritualistic. So mention the word Christmas to a prawn and he...

MSC certified Coorong Wild Seafood Mulloway steamed dumplings

Coorong Wild Seafood MSC certified Mulloway is too good to waste so if you have some fish trim , heres a recipe to use it all up , dumplings ! makes about a dozen 200 g Coorong Wild Seafood mulloway pieces , skin offPinch sea salt1 free range egg whiteBig...

Norwood Food and Wine Festival, 2012

I was recently down at the Norwood Food and Wine festival, which was a great day with a excellent blend of Food, Wine and local entertainment. Heres the recipe for the Rolled Lamb neck with almond and rosemary, braised lentils dirt(y) Kangaroo Island Pure Grain red nugget lentils with smoked...

Harvest Festival McLaren Vale

Early January's visit to McLaren Vale to cook at the inaugural Harvest Festival; amazing local support and an unexpected huge crowd. A quick detour to Wilunga Farmers Market (thanks for all the free product for my demos to the stall holders, you know who you are) for Venison, Berries, butter,...

Outback Pride warrigal and saltbush tart with B.-d. Farm Paris Creek fetta

Outback Pride have a new range of fresh retail product ( that means home shoppers can get the good stuff that chfes have been getting for years) including warrigal, sea parsley and saltbush in 100 g packs, they are available at the Henley Organic Sustainable Market. Heres the recipe from...

Chicken Biryani

Thx to Wilunga Farmers Market stall holders for the produce a few weeks ago for the autumn cook up at the market....heres the recipe with Inman Valley chooks , B.d-Farm Paris Creek butter and yogurt, Fleurieu Milk co cream, Hardings ginger/ Australian peanut oil and chilli, Beach Organics fair trade...

if it's not fair ,it's just not fair

Fair trade week kicks off in May , heres some food for thought.... Funny to think that a dummy spit in the 1860s by a former Dutch civil servant about corrupt colonial trading practices could have so much impact on the chocolate that you purchase now.Eduard Douwes Dekker penned his...