It’s citrus season, our tangelo tree is loaded, and I have a new favourite breakfast.
If you are new to kangaroo meat, this is not a bad recipe to start out with. The preserved lemon is the interesting flavour in it, and kangaroo is a great meat for a tagine because it is so lean and dense.
I’ve had a lovely weekend with my Brisbane based sister, sewing and cooking and solving the problems of the family and the world. And as…
In the realm of preserves as condiments, preserved lemons are top of the list.
This recipe works for lemon or lime cordial, but limes have a shorter season when fresh ones are available.
This is a dense cake, almost the texture of a steamed pudding – which means it survives well being bounced around in a lunch box.
I can’t say this is fast and easy. It’s a long slow Sunday afternoon recipe, and it creates quite a bit of washing up! But there’s a good return on investment – for an hour or so of Sunday afternoon baking, you can have several very healthy dinners and lunches made ready for the week.
This week’s Challenger uses pecans and apple (both in season) and a secret ingredient – beetroot.
You can tell we’re heading towards the southern hemisphere Halloween – we have pumpkins in such abundance that you can see where the idea of cutting faces in them came from.
Squid are generally a fairly safe choice – they breed fast, die young, and may even be over-filling their niche as their natural predators struggle to maintain their populations.