Posts tagged “cooking

in season

Posted on August 20th, 2012

Earlier this week I wrote about eating in season, and I mean really eating whats in season, not whats available all year round in your supermarket. It makes sense to me to do so, you’re eating whats the freshest at that particular time of year…not what’s grown thousands of miles away and requires refrigeration or treatment to get to the stores shelves. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea I know, but I enjoy the approach of the long wait of a full year until the ingredient returns to the season. I’ll cook it when I can either grow it, forage it or legally hunt it. I work for many of meals, I don’t work to earn money to buy all my ingredients, just some….the…

slow cook rabbit in dijon sauce and fried polenta

Posted on June 2nd, 2012

One of my old favourites with the added naughty side of fried polenta. The rabbit is cooked in a broth of bacon, onion, wine and stock. It’s a treat just on it’s own. It’s the sauce that gets the crusty bread mop up at the end of the meal. This recipe will be in the book…..which is by the way, due for release in a few months time. October 8th I think. I hope you all like it!

new growth…..

Posted on May 31st, 2012

It’s been cold this week but it didn’t stop us from getting the winter veg planted. I mean it wasn’t terrential rain and howling wind like last week! I like the rain, us gardeners do, it’s gold for the garden, but that sideways rain that slaps you in the face I can do without when I’m working in the dirt. We’ve planted a few basics for the cool season, Kale, Onion, Lettuce, Rocket, Peas, Carrots, Spinach, Broccoli, Celery, and a handful of herbs. Tonight I made a pumpkin soup from our store of summers pumpkin, and for the added flavour I used a Ballarat blue cheese from Goldfields brand, which was a bit indulgent because they (Goldfields Cheese Co) have stopped making that particular…