The following recipe is a heart warming, comforting meal ideal for those cold, cold winter days like we are currently experiencing in Australia.   It’s packed full of protein with lentils, cannelini and chickpea / garbanzo beans and is rounded off with a good chug full of a nice Italian Chianti just for some oomph!
The only [...]

The following recipe was inspired by last month’s Delicious magazine that had a Indian feature.  It’s a beautiful curry dish using your own roasted spices to make the meal.  The recipe that inspired this was the “Coconut Lamb Curry.”  I’ve swapped a few of the ingredients and used fake meat for the beef.
The great thing [...]

(Image: Picatta served with Porcini Polenta)
I absolutely love polenta!  I love it in the morning with some honey and milk, love it hardened into fries and just love the mashy version you can serve savoury!  This version of polenta is no exception!  The porcini mushrooms, give a beautiful flavour to the polenta and combined with [...]

(Image: Picatta served with Porcini Polenta)
After watching my mother eat her way through a real Chicken Piccata and liking everything apart from the fact it was meat, I decided to come up with an alternative.  Piccata is generally made with real chicken that is basted in a sauce of capers, butter and white wine.  Whilst [...]

This lovely recipe is a take on the Chilli Paneer made with cornflour.  Whilst bitter in flavour, it also is sweet, salty and hot, making your taste buds unsure of what it will hit it next.
Combining some sweet peppers and onions, this dish goes great with some fried rice or just the plain old steam [...]

Following from some previous recipes, I got the idea to use Balsamic Vinegar when trying to make something have a more “meaty” or “smokey” flavour.  I have to admit, the first time I did it, I actually thought the pan (used by my parents) hadn’t been washed properly.  
The steak comes from the idea of [...]

The following recipe was “almost exactly like” the Real Living version, which is one of the many house magazines I’ve been buying lately due to me building one!  As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to try it.  And change it…a little bit!
The brussels are caramelised on one side before being reduced [...]

I have to admit that being in Melbourne, and, living in the Western suburbs, I feel really spoilt for choice when it comes to produce. Not only am I close to the farms, I’m also close to the airport and, really, pretty close to town also. Why mention this, I’m sure you are [...]

The past couple of weeks have been a bit hectic with my new-house-to-be-built finally starting construction in the next couple of weeks and my brother (living in the UK) being over for the last couple of weeks, with many dinners out.  So there’s not been many updates but there has been recipes in the making, [...]

This recipe comes just at the time for most in Australia I bet, and for me, it is just what I need at the moment. I’ve just started back at work and I have caught the dreaded cold off my workmates! What luck do I have? So this Vegetarian version of the [...]