Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Serves: 6 • 125g butter, at room temperature • 1/2 cup (110g) caster sugar • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence • 2 eggs • 11/4 cups (185g) self-raising flour • 1/2 cup (45g) desiccated coconut • 65mL can coconut cream • 1...
Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Makes: 8 • 8 thin sausages • 2 cups (300g) self-raising flour • good pinch salt • 30g butter, chopped • 3/4 cup (180mL) milk • 8 long metal skewers • tomato sauce, to serve 1. Cook the sausages on the barbecue over...
preparation time: 25 minutes cooking time: 2½ hours serves: 6 750g piece pork neck or shoulder 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 onion, chopped 1 red capsicum, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1/2 teaspoon ground chilli 4...
Prep time: 20 minutes Cooking time: about 15 minutes Serves: 4 • 1 medium eggplant • spray olive oil • 11/2 tablespoons pine nuts • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 2 x 225g packets pre-made felafels, halved (see note) • 150g baby spinach leaves • 250g cherry tomatoes,...
Prep time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 45 minutes + chilling Serves: 10 • 4 lemons (about 150g each) • 11/2 cups (330g) caster sugar • 5 eggs • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence Pastry • 2 cups (300g) plain flour • 2 tablespoons icing sugar • 150g cold butter, chopped • 3-4...
Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: about 15 minutes Serves: 4 • 2 bunches English spinach • 40g butter • 1/2 cup (125mL) thin cream • pinch nutmeg • 2 tablespoons finely grated parmesan • 4 eggs • extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle • toast, to serve 1....
Prep time: 20 minutes Cooking time: about 50 minutes + overnight refrigeration Serves: 4 • 1 cup (150g) plain flour • 1/2 teaspoon Chinese five spice • 1 egg • 11/2 cups (375mL) milk • 2 teaspoons vegetable oil • 4 duck breast fillets • 4 mandarins • 1 Lebanese...
As a bonus for Don’s 2UE listeners, we have a great recipe of a ‘silverbeet and three cheese torte’. It’s like a frittata, except you bake it in the oven, and you don’t need to make pastry. Just mix up all the ingredient, bake, then eat. Tracy Rutherford’s silverbeet...
In the May 2010 issue of Burke’s Backyard magazine, on sale Monday, May 3, our kitchen garden story is all about growing olives in your own backyard. Olives make beautiful shade trees, they look terrific in pots too, and if you want the great look of...
Watermelons, rockmelons and honeydews In the December 2010 issue of Burke’s Backyard magazine, on sale Monday, November 22, our ‘Kitchen Garden’ feature is all about how to grow watermelons, rockmelons and honeydews. If you have some space to spare in a big garden,...