Now, in February and March, is the perfect time for Passata making. Tomatoes are at their peak. It is an easy process - here is how to make it! Ingredients: To make 12 x 750 ml bottles 1 box of Roma 'sauce' tomatoes, about 15kg Bunch basil Murray River Sea Salt [...]
Serves 4 24cm tart dish One mozzarella and almond pastry case; pre-cooked. Recipe below. You can easily omit the pastry base and make this as a frittata for a change. Tomato tart 10 tomatoes or as many large ripe tomatoes as needed for your tart dish. 4 generous tbsp pesto 100g each grated cheddar [...]
Pipérade from the Basque* country is made with green or red peppers and pimentos, onions, tomatoes and garlic, slowly cooked together, with beaten egg added at the end and slowly stirred through to cook the eggs; it is usually served with slices of the famous and delicious Jambon de Bayonne, which is similar to prosciutto. [...]
Over the years, I have worked on perfecting a reasonably easy, very nice, tasty tomato sauce, made without sugar, and one the children also enjoy with their sausages and chops. These 2 sauces fit the bill! Roasting the onions, tomatoes and garlic add a good depth of flavour and colour; it makes a little denser [...]
This is a very intense and flavoursome, tomato sauce which suits many dishes; it is marvellous simply served with zucchini noodles and cheese, try it! Serves 8 Ingredients 1 red capsicum roasted; remove seeds and skin; finely chop 100mls or 7 tbsp olive oil 2 onions, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed 2 [...]
We love pumpkin simply roasted like this, served as vegetable or as a warm ‘salad’ – it is a real family favourite and is usually one of our Christmas day vegetables as it is fine served at room temperature. Serves 4 Ingredients Garnish 500g pumpkin, cubed with skin on or off 3 onions, peeled and [...]
After our visit to the red craw crayfish farm in Wolvi, and cooking those delicious red craws I wrote about in a previous post, I used the red craw shells to make my fabulous, flavoursome crab stock. Usually I make this stock as I have written in this recipe below with blue swimmer crabs. When [...]
Margaret’s ‘Inverlaul’ tomato relish This is our favourite tomato relish. A dear, old friend, Margaret Benjamin made this for her family for years. Now her family have to make it for themselves, and they continue to love it. The recipe came from Margaret’s mother who lived on the family property, “Inverlaul”, in central Victoria, Australia. [...]
What a wonderful fruit, with their great aroma, wonderful flavours, so many colours, shapes and sizes. Yes, the tomato is botanically a fruit, a berry to be precise, but as they are mostly used as a vegetable they are classed as a vegetable. Tomatoes are probably the most popular of all home grown vegetables. When [...]
