This is basically a fancy-sounding French version of baked beans with sausages. A “real” cassoulet involves more futzing than this recipe but really it’s a peasant dish originally anyway. Like most peasant food, it’s rustic, filling, tasty and warming (I’m a sucker for stews and casseroles too). This recipe was stolen and mangled from [...]
I was after a rock cake recipe, so I borrowed one of my mum’s treasured recipe books. You can tell it’s a favourite as it’s stuffed with clippings, is falling to bits and is liberally coated in dried ingredients.
The book is the CWA’s “The Esk Valley Cookbook: Treasured Recipes of the Countrywomen of the Esk [...]
(low fat, serves 4)
Even though this is a low-fat recipe, it tastes absolutely fantastic. The recipe comes from ABC’s Delicious magazine, circa 2005-2006. It’s a good intro to the mild lemony flavour of sumac (which is also great on grilled meats and rubbed-into sliced white onions). Mind you, the flavour does get kind-of pummeled by [...]
This is a recipe Geoff Jansz presented on the Women’s Weekly Fresh cooking show on the Nine network some time in 2006. It’s impossible to find in the NineMSN AWW archives (indeed it seems Geoff’s left the show and the AWW’s tried to erase all trace of him too). It’s a really great recipe. The [...]