Kedgeree This dish is made with rice, smoked fish and eggs. In the Valder family home kedgeree was always served for breakfast. These days Peter likes to prepare it in the evening – he says it makes a particularly good TV dinner! Ingredients 500g smoked cod1-1...
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but lunch comes a close second. Skipping either meal often results in low concentration levels in the afternoon, along with cravings for junk food. If you’re bored with sandwiches, nutritionist Rosemary Stanton...
Lowering Cholesterol Nutritionist, Dr Rosemary Stanton, looked at two margarines containing plant sterols, which are extracted from soy beans. Studies show that these margarines can absorb cholesterol and reduce blood cholesterol by approximately 10%. However they can...
Measuring Fat Wondering if you’re too fat? Maybe you should jump on the scales and find out. Wrong! Health and fitness expert, Dr Garry Egger, says that scales measure a whole range of things including the weight of muscle, hair and bone. He recommends using a...
Moisturisers Graeme Quirk explained that although moisturisers can be very expensive, all they put back into your skin is water. They also contain oils to prevent more water evaporating from the skin and to hold the water in contact with the skin. Applying water alone...
Moroccan Barbecued Lamb Geoff Jansz prepared and barbecued a boned shoulder of lamb, Moroccan-style. Geoff says that cheaper cuts of meat, such as a shoulder of lamb, often have the best flavour. You’ll need 1 shoulder of lamb (ask the butcher to remove the bone...
Fitness Yesterday and Today About 65% of Australian men and 53% of Australian women are overweight or obese. Health and fitness expert, Dr Garry Egger, says that this is because cars, remote controls, computers and other forms of technology have taken all the movement...
New Stone Fruit Most people like the taste of fruit but they often forget to eat it. In fact, on any given day almost half of Australian men and school age kids eat no fruit of any kind. According to nutritionist Rosemary Stanton, those people are missing out on...
Hundreds of years ago ginger cordial was thought to relieve flatulence, distended stomach, rheumatism and chills of the lung and bladder. It was also supposed to be an antidote to poison and an aphrodisiac. Today, people drink it just because it tastes good. Growing...
This no-bake cheesecake from Geoff Jansz is easy to make, and great to eat. Ingredients 250g sweet biscuits125g butter, melted375g cream cheese, softenedzest of 1 lemon2 tsp vanilla essence1/3 cup lemon juice400g tin condensed milkstrawberries, dicedicing sugar...