Radicchio, Baby Rocket, Beetroot and Pear Salad
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This is a salad filled with lots of natural colour and therefore lots of antioxidants too! A perfect combination of bitter and sweet, it’s ‘naked food’ at its best.
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Brown Rice Salad
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A lovely high fibre salad that everybody loves. A friend who dared to cook for ‘the chef’, made this salad for me and I asked her for the recipe. This is my similar version of that recipe, as I have adjusted the dressing ever so slightly. As for the origin of the original recipe we are unsure.
Read MoreBraised Lamb Shoulder with Creamy Polenta and Smashed Minted Peas
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As the season shifts to Autumn and the weather begins to cool, it's time to think about introducing some comfort food to your table. Recently I hosted a lunch for a dear friend's birthday, she's of Italian heritage and appreciates the love and generosity that can be conveyed through food.
Read MoreThe Old Schoolhouse, Milton NSW
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Recently we spent three days and two nights staying at The Old Schoolhouse Milton and it was delightful. The Old Schoolhouse is an historic home well known in the district, set on two and a half acres of tranquil lawns and orchard with rural views in all directions. The old schoolhouse itself is long gone, but the historic Schoolmaster’s residence remains.
Read MoreBattered Flathead with Kale and Carrot Slaw
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Mr G caught flathead in numerous places on our road trip adventures - we were flat-out eating flathead. We stayed with friends on the East Coast of Tasmania, who when they aren’t feeding their sheep escape to ‘the shack’ at Coles Bay to catch flathead by the boat-full and cook them up in a crispy batter for breakfast.
Read More'Tis the season to stop!
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'Tis the season to stop!
It's been quite the year 2016, boxes are ticked with the second cookbook on the shelves and our final child finished school, but I'm ending it all just a little weary. It seems when you burn the candle at both ends for a whole year, you eventually run out of wax - I think I'm going to fall over the finish line at the end of this week and then proceed to lay horizontal for quite some time. I'm so thankful for what's been done and just as thankful to have the chance to stop.
Our Delicious Days - Northern NSW
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Bags filled with cooking equipment, summer clothes and boxes of books, we jumped on a plane north and before we knew it we'd landed in balmy Ballina. Heading inland to the colourful village of Bangalow, we stopped in at the 'one street' town of Newrybar for a bite of lunch.
Read More"Our Delicious Adventure" - All the action of the Sydney Launch Party
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Last Saturday or was it the one before? Time is racing by....I saw Christmas Puddings in the shops yesterday and wondered where has this year got too! I digress...back to the topic Jane, it was on Saturday 3rd of September, in the words of my special guest and food-writer Barbara Sweeney - "family, friends and fans gathered to celebrate with me - the arrival of my new book - Our Delicious Adventure - Recipes and Stories of Food and Travel."
Read MoreCitrus in the City
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Wintertime means citrus season with an abundance of oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, cumquats and Seville oranges hanging on neighbourhood trees and at farmers market stalls. There are even Rangpur limes, a type of 'mandarin lime' or 'lemonadrin' – loosely translated as a mandarin orange – rough lemon hybrid. Although we don’t all have a citrus tree or two in our front or backyard, no doubt you know someone who does and so often there is an excess of fruit available beyond the needs of the average household.
Read MoreOur Delicious Adventure - Recipes and Stories of Food and Travel
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Two advance copies of my new baby ‘Our Delicious Adventure – Recipes and Stories of Food and Travel’ arrived at my front door this week. It’s a moment I’ve waited for for months, feelings of both excitement and trepidation intertwined as I opened the package, all the while wondering will it be all I have hoped for.
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