Sure Shots. Ravioli. How’s this for a quick idea for handmade ravioli? Use wonton wrappers, store-bought, already cut to size. Choose your own filling (perhaps a ricotta mix? or minced meat?)… wet edges, add flavours, press out air, & seal. Steam, boil, or pan-sear. Add your best complimentary
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Top Tips for Deep Dish Pie Baking. Last weekend we catered for a gorgeous simple vintage wedding. In a quaint little country village hall. With hessian runners, fresh green vines, lovingly hand-made details, & an everybody home-to-the-farmhouse feel. Lots of warmth & laughter, good music & dancing,
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Soup. Simple sustenance for the soul. Well for sick people anyway… This week I happen to have 2 friends who are distressed, for one reason or another. One has had a sudden tragic death in the family. One is bed-ridden with herself & a child to feed.
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Slow-Cooking Tips: Just before we stash our slow-cookers away for yet another year, let’s wrap it up with a few hints & lessons learnt with this style of cooking. And a recipe or two… This is the shoulder season where, along with the warming of the days
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Red Foods, a little powerhouse of health. 10 recipes. From strawberries to beets, red fruits and vegetables are a powerhouse of health & pack a vibrant nutritional punch. Red foods are packed with antioxidants & vitamins. The colour in red foods comes from Lycopene which help your
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Mango, Polenta & Ricotta Cake with Lime Butter Cream. As many of you know, I have been extremely fortunate to have another amazing trip come into my field of vision. This time to Orvieto, central Italy. So excited! https://foodthatsings.com/food-art-journaling-in-italy/ I have never been to this part of Italy
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Mango Chutney: I always have trouble buying a good mango chutney. I like the colour & flavour to be true to the fruit we know & love, but so often it is dull to look at & unrecognisable to taste. Several generous friends have given me boxes
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A note to my Mother… Hello Mother Chook, Here’s the you-beaut refrigerated cheese cake recipe as promised :)) It’s been often requested & has been Shae’s favourite choice every birthday for decades. So it’s well tried & true. And today I’m making it for her son’s birthday
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Chicken, Chillies & Pistachios Chicken & Pistachio Sausage Rolls: Make these tempting little lovelies your own…add your favourites, like different herbs or nuts, or pork, veal or turkey, or fetta, or extra veggies (great way to get the kids to eat more of the good stuff :))
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The Duchess’s Cooking Classes are on the list as the 5th most popular activity to do while in Sicily. You stay in the magnificent old apartments, you shop at the freshest of markets, you pick herbs & lemons straight form her garden, you cook Sicilian fare &
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