Beets and Beans Salad

This recipe was partly inspired by a recipe for a beetroot, carrot and bean slow cooker casserole from Sara Lewis’ Ultimate Slow Cooker cookbook. The remaining “inspiration” was more like desperation when I needed to come up with some sort of dish to take to a pot luck dinner and the fridge was fairly bare …

The joy of baking: Rhubarb & Rosewater Purée

In the latest Australian Women’s Weekly issue (New Zealand edition (November 2015)), Nigella speaks about the therapy of baking.  I don’t often buy the AWW as I have to limit my magazine purchases in order to keep to my assigned budget but occasionally something on the cover calls out to me.  Most often it is …

Savour – Spring eating

Lamb & Couscous Salad with Tzatziki I know the first thing you are going to say to me – where is the apple in this recipe?There is no apple in this recipe.  I suppose I could sneak some in somewhere …. but apple for the sake of apple even if it doesn’t go?  Hmmm, perhaps …