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updated March 5, 2010
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basics — savoury
basics — sweet
biscuits — sweet
bread
cakes
faking it
tricky stuff made easy!
festivals & feasts
fruit

figs
lemons
mandarins
mangoes
passionfruit
pears
plums (red)
prickly pears
quinces
meat
lamb
mushrooms — funghi
pasta
pickling
polenta
poultry
salads
sauces
seafood
garfish
mussels
oysters
rocklobster
sardines
vegetables

figs in a purple bowl, oil on a second hand canvas Ann Oliver
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last month we took a look at
at the improvements in home vac machines and draw attention to the food safety issues with vaccing and sous–vide preparation click here

mad about figs click here

index

basics — savoury
bechamel (egg enriched suitable for soufflés) — click here
mayonnaise (lemon) — click here
basics — sweet
crumble topping — click here
Pam Field’s sponge — click here
biscuits — sweet
Anzac biscuits — click here
bread
about bread — click here
Jim Lahey’s and Tony Walsh’s fab bread — click here
cakes

Ann’s traditional fruit cake — click here
Claudia Roden’s divine mandarin and Almond Cake — click here
Kulich (Russian Easter cake) — click here
Lucia Rosella’s favourite cake the Strega cake — click here
Macaraoons small and exquisite, larger and still spectacular — click here
Pam Field’s fabulous sponge — click here
Pashka (Russian Easter cake) — click here
simnell cake — click here
faking it!
Perfect Polenta — click here
Perfect Cous Cous — click here
festivals & feasts
Christmasclick here
The Mistress' Own Christmas Pudding — click here
OlIve’s own Fruitcake — click here
Olive’s Gourmet Fruitcake — click here
Anzac Dayclick here
Easterclick here
fruit
figs — tips and ideas click here
Grandma Quinn’s Glacé Figs — click here
Mille Feuille of fig, glacé ginger and pistachios ice cream with fresh figs and pommegrante jelly — click here
Figs and chocolate baked in filo, chocolate sauce — click here
Fig and spice bread — click here

for old fig and favourite recipes click here
for more of our recipes on Willabrand figs site please
click here
lemon tips & ideas click here
Fay Oliver’s lemon delicious pudding — click here
lemon curd — click here
lemon curd soufflé — click here

mandarins

mandarin and almond cake (gluten free) a version of Claudia Roden’s orginal orange and almond cakeclick here
mandarin glacé — click here

mango tips & ideasclick here

Shirl the Pearl’s mango daiquiri — click here
mango and lime bavarian raspberry jelly sponge —
click here
fast mango sorbet — click here
fast eggless mango gelati — click here
mango and chilli sorbet with glacé chillies — click here
mango ice cream — click here
hot poached mangoes with passionfruit sauce — click here
Thai style mango, corn and prawn salad — click here
mango and lime chutney — click here

passionfruit tips & ideas click here

passionfruit butter crepes — click here
passionfruit curd — click here
passionfruit floating islands — click here
passionfruit ice cream — click here
passionfruit patisserie cream — still to be written up
pears
pear, green ginger and wild fennel paste — click here
plums (red) tips & ideasclick here
plum crumble — click here
plum jelly — click here
plums poached — click here
prickly pears
prickly pear jelly (conserve) — click here
prickly pear sorbet — click here
quinces
quince paste — click here
quinces poached and preserved — still to be written up
meat
lamb
slow cooked neck and shoulder of Hay Valley lamb — click here
mushrooms — funghi
mushroom sub–index — click here
pasta
perfect pasta dough — click here
pickling
cauliflower mustard pickle — click here
kumquats pickled sweet and savoury — click here
olives black — click here
olives green — click here
olive oil judging, picking the good oils — click here
lemons pickled — click here
limes pickled — click here
mango and lime chutney — click here
onions pickled — click here
polenta
Perfect polenta — click here
poultry
poaching a chicken — click here
salads
salads — poultry
chicken marakesh — click here
chicken mayonnaise salad with cos and asparagus — click here
salads — vegetarian
pumpkin and mograbieh salad — click here
watermelon and feta with mint and coriander — click here
sauces
hollandaise sauce — click here
seafood
garfish
garfish stuffed with fresh figs, almond and wild fennel crust — click here
mussels
mille–feuille of petit bouchon in fresh turmeric, celery and saffron sauce — click here
spaghetti with petit bouchon, eggplant, chilli, peas and capsicum — click here
oystersclick here

rocklobster (Southern Rocklobster Limited) — click here

sardines

harissa grilled sardines, with merquez, pine nuts and raisins, Tony Carroll, Jolleys Boathouse — click here
oven baked sardines in macadamia crusts, Dennis Whetstone, Red Ochre, Adelaide South Australia —
click here

vegetables — green

tips and ideas — click here
asparagus — click here
sweet corn — click here
oysters natural with chilli and corn salsa
click here
corn pancakes — click here


this week
we’re keeping it KIS KIF, keep it simple, keep it fresh!Sweet corn is making a come back in restaurant and home cooking but it’s always been tops with us click here

two weeks ago
Jim Lahey’s fabulous easy and perfect Italian style bread has simply gone off. Straight from the oven or four days later in toast it is really fabulous click here

there are still some good buys for mangoes
click here

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