Pumpkin Pie – the non cheating way.

For Brad’s first Thanksgiving in Australia, I had to find a good Pumpkin Pie recipe.  That was not as easy as you might think as, at the time, the vast majority of recipes included a ‘can of pumpkin pie filling’.  I have never really been a ‘can of’ kind of girl, and have always made [...]

Poached Chicken with Herbed Tomato Sauce

1 heaped tablespoon rock salt 4 small chicken breasts a generous handful of flat leaf parsley leaves 12 large mint leaves zest from 2 lemons left to sit in 1 tsp rock salt 2 large ripe tomatoes, finely chopped 4 tablespoons  extra virgin olive oil 300g green beans, trimmed Put the heaped tablespoon of salt [...]

I’m in love…

…with my new cookbook.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, gimme a break! Normally I’m one of those people who gets distracted by the shiny, colourful cover of the cookbook and  purchases it never to make anything from it, because ultimately, the damned thing sucks.  But hey, they look fab on my bookshelf! Last week I bought another [...]