Thai Chicken and Citrus Salad As the weather warms up it’s time to start thinking about salads. Geoff Jansz took full advantage of the plentiful supply of citrus fruit in season, and prepared a delicious Thai chicken and citrus salad. This recipe is easy to...
Potato Salad After exercising or doing some gardening you’ll probably find that you’ve worked up quite an appetite! Geoff Jansz suggests recharging your batteries with a healthy, tangy potato salad. While that’s cooking, replace fluids lost during...
Turkish Delight – The French Alternative Jackie aroused Sultan Bryan’s interest with some homemade Turkish Delight. This sexy sweet is delicious, low in cholesterol and nothing like the horrible jelly-like substance you find in boxes of chocolates....
Prawn Cocktail Geoff Jansz demonstrated how to make prawn cocktails with a Thai twist! The best place to buy prawns is your local fish market, but don’t go for the biggest ones – Geoff says that little school prawns have the most flavour. The quantities...
Pumpkin and Ricotta Lasagne This vegetarian lasagne from Geoff Jansz is full of colour and flavour, and it’s just perfect to warm the family on a chilly day! The quantities given below serve 6. Ingredients 30g butter 2 onions, diced 1 butternut pumpkin, peeled...
Quick Pappadums Pappadums are thin, lentil crackers normally served as an appetizer with chutney, pickles, dips and salads, or as a bread to accompany an Indian curry. Peter Valder demonstrated the traditional way to deep-fry pappadums, as well as two less fatty...
Roast Beef Low Fat Remember the mouth-watering roasts your mother used to cook? Those baked dinners of yesteryear were delicious, but they were swimming in lakes of fat. Then, when the meat and vegetables were ready, a very fatty gravy was made with the pan juices....
Red Colouring Red food colouring is commonly added to iceblocks, lollies, jellies and cordials, and also to some jams, yoghurts and breakfast cereals designed to appeal to children. As many children drink a lot of cordials, red cordials are a big source of red food...
Reddest Cordial Ever – The French Alternative Red cordial is a rich, red, homemade raspberry drink. You can mix it with water at the normal dilution rate for cordials (1:10), although Jackie prefers hers half strength while Bryan likes his twice as strong! Other...
RSPCA Easter Eggs This year the RSPCA, Myer/Grace Bros and Chocolatier Australia have joined forces to bring both animal and chocolate lovers six premium chocolate Easter Eggs in an ‘RSPCA Barn Laid’ presentation pack. $1 from the sale of each carton will...