This Homemade Lemon Curd is tangy, thick and delicious and so easy to make at home. You’ll need just 4 ingredients and less than 30 minutes to make this recipe. What is a Curd? Curd may not sound appealing. Too many thoughts of curds and wheys, maybe? However tangy Lemon Curd is almost like a…
Jams, Preserves and DIY
Chocolate Bark is easy and great for gift giving
Chocolate bark is on of the easiest edible gifts you can make. If you can melt chocolate you can make chocolate bark. But the best part is that you can totally customize it with various chocolate bark toppings! When I told a friend I had made Chocolate Bark that morning before work, she wondered what…
How to make Roasted Red Peppers
Roasted Red Peppers are so easy and flavorful that you’re going to want to make these regularly. Let me show you my favorite way to make Roasted Peppers. Soon you’ll be eating them with every meal or snack. Roasted Red Peppers or capsicum as they are known in Australia, have always been a staple…
Microwave Strawberry Jam using just 3 ingredients
Microwave Strawberry Jam is so easy and fun to do. Make the most of seasonal strawberries or use frozen berries, the results are equally good. Plus the homemade jam has a quality and taste that no store bought variety can match.
Spiced Dried Fruit with Rum
Australian dried fruit is among the best in the world. Whether you like apples, peaches, apricots, pears, prunes, Australia has them all. And this Spiced Dried Fruit with Rum is a perfect recipe to showcase our beautiful fruit produced by our proud farmers. Preserving Having jars of great preserves in the pantry are a cooks…
Passionfruit Curd Pavlova
This month I hosted a Daring Kitchen challenge and challenged the members of the Daring Kitchen to make a pavlova. I know, not that daring really, is it? But that was the whole point. I wanted this to be more of a creative challenge…take the main ingredient of a pavlova and let your culinary…
Making Mozzarella Cheese
Some time ago I spotted a cheese making kit at my local deli. Already having prepared ricotta using Mrs G’s method, I was ready to move on in my cheese making endeavours but not ready to do it on my own. This kit was perfect. The Begininners’ Italian Cheeses Kit by Mad Millie provided everything I needed…
Conserva di Pomodori – Homemade Tomato Paste
While in most areas summer is tomato season, in tropical North Queensland tomato season is in our mild winter. Really there are only two seasons in the tropics – the cool and dry or the hot and wet. Traditional vegetables don’t cope well with the extreme heat and the monsoonal rains of our summer. This is a time best…
Homemade Ricotta Cheese
This post has been a long time in the making. Eighteen months ago the Daring Baker’s Challenge for November 2009 was Cannoli. At the same time I had a telephone call from my sister inviting me along to a ricotta making lesson. Well, the two went hand in hand, didn’t they? The cannoli with the…
