This sauce makes the perfect seafood starter accompaniment for your Christmas Feast. It’s good with absolutely any seafood and any leftover sauce is also delicious with turkey so it’s well worth making.
Mustard and White Wine Sauce with Prawns
Creamy Pea and Basil Pasta
Creamy pasta without that heavy feeling? Yes please! This one has some extra veg added to help the texture of the sauce and add a depth of flavour that you’ll really appreciate.
Maple Mustard Chicken Skewers with Avocado and Mint Sauce
Last lockdown I was really into cooking complicated stuff from scratch just to keep myself entertained. This lockdown feels different. I just want simple and delicious things to eat for dinner that are quick to make. These skewers fit that description to a tee. The flavour is so addictive, the perfect balance of sweet, salty, sour, and a little hit of bitter from the mustard powder.
Rapini and Pine Nut Pesto
Have you heard or rapini? It gets called broccoli raab or rabe too and you can usually find it at green grocers or farmer’s markets. I’ve never seen it at a big supermarket in Melbourne but if you have, let me know. It’s part of both the cabbage and turnip families and used in Italian cooking. I love it as it’s like spinach with bite. If you can’t find it you could use spinach with a small handful of rocket thrown in for that bit of bite.
Mushroom Satay Skewers
These are so full of flavour and a great alternative to meet skewers. I tried a new technique to cook the mushrooms and it allows the marinade flavour to really soak in AND for the mushrooms to get lovely and golden.
Roast Herb Salted Pork Rack with Roasted Cauliflower, Fennel and Olives
There are some very classic flavours in this roast rack of pork and they come together to make the most amazing roast dinner. After travelling to London twice in the last 6 months I feel like my appreciation for a good pork roast has gone through the ceiling. This is my dream roast and it doesn’t even include potatoes. Just a really beautiful rack of St Bernard’s Free Range Pork, caramelised cauliflower and fennel and a sort of parmesan gravy to tie it all together.
Slow Cooked Zucchini Sauce
I don’t know what to call this other than glorious. A wonderful woman I met on a retreat, Anne, was telling me about one of her favourite things to do with zucchini and I had to try it and this is my version of it. Ridiculously simple but a real revelation in terms of flavour. i’m loathe to post my 20th zucchini recipe of the year but I can’t help myself. I’m sorry, but also not at all because why am I apologising for giving you yet another free zucchini recipe?!
Chicken Salad With Creamy Cashew and Herb Mayo
This mayo is life. It is the best mayonnaise I’ve ever made. You’ll want to dip everything in it and it makes this simple and easy salad sing.
Gnocchi in a Rich Eggplant, Tomato and Basil Sauce
This recipe is all about that sauce combining with the tender potato gnocchi. And wow that sauce. It’s full of deep umami rich flavour thanks to the sweet and sticky sundried tomatoes and sherry. And full of freshness form the basil. The ability of the eggplant to soak up flavour is what really make sit. Along with a good lug of extra virgin olive oil.
Broccoli, Hemp and Pepita Pesto Pasta
This pesto pasta is full of good goodness and has a protein boost from the hemp seeds. You could serve it with a poached egg for even more protein and richness but’s it’s satisfying just as it is.