( This is adapted from the Australian Women's Weekly cookbook from the 1970s. )

So I'm almost finished the top for my older son's wedding next Monday, but an attack of the tummy-icks has held me back a bit. Even so, it's gone stupidly freezing here in Melbourne (8.3C, feeling like 2C, and with snow up in the ranges). So I remembered on the River Cottage series, and made up this one:

( Sausage slow cooked dinner )

Many of the local restaurants have started serving this, so I wanted to try and make them myself. I've almost got the texture right, and I think I have the proportions (trust me, there's been a lot of experimentation).

Serves 2 by themselves for a middle-large breakfast.

• 1 large zucchini (courgette) grated - you're going to want 1 1/2 to 2 cups ( Read more... )

Bit of a back story first. When my mum and dad married in 1963, about six months after my paternal grandmother Marge went to my Mum and said "You know, George is looking a bit thin. You might need this." And she gave my mum a copy of the 1962 Commonsense Cookery Book. From it, my mother learned the basics of plain cakes, Irish Stew and Puff Pastry ( Read more... )

( For something made with only three ingredients, it works rather well. )

I need some rare roast lamb.

You see, right at the end of the warm weather my bloody tomato plants decided to suddenly fruit up. So I stripped down the plants the other day, salvaging a half kilo of ripe tomatoes and a half-kilo of green ones.

lederhosen can't eat onions or their variations, and we rather like Indian food which is often best served with ( Read more... )

( with butter )

I've been meaning to make these for ages, and ( tonight I got around to it... )

( Home made Pork Ball Soup )

I've snuck in here while the kitchen fills with the smell of rising dough and cooking cake. Yup, it's Superbowl time again.

And why ( superbowl? )