(This post is based on an article we wrote for Club Marine magazine in 1997. Use the Print button at the top of this page for a hard copy or pdf of the recipe in this post.) At this time of the year – late summer in Australia – you may have plenty of tomatoes and basil in your garden …
Recipes From The Italian Riviera
(Continued from Tomato Sauce – Italian Style) As well as an abundance of herbs and tomatoes, you may well have an abundance of cherry tomatoes. And maybe you also have a surfeit of figs! Below you will find two simple but excellent Italy-inspired recipes: grilled cheese-stuffed figs and a pasta sauce using cherry tomatoes. Three years ago on an extended …
Tomato Sauce – Italian Style
(Continued from Pesto, Salsa Verde, Chimichurri) As well as an abundance of herbs, at this time of the year you may well have an abundance of tomatoes. Or at least they will be cheap to buy, and at their flavoursome best. Home-grown tomatoes: Shouldn’t they taste better? I have grown tomatoes in the past and I have no hesitation in …
From Todd’s Garden
If there is one regret we have about living in Melbourne and not on the Tamar, it is ready access to just-picked, home-grown fruit and vegetables. While we have a good herb selection, our garden in Melbourne isn’t big enough for fruit and vegies and I am not sure we would be good at vegetable growing anyway. Ever since I …
Preparations for a Long Lunch
It was late Sunday night when I realised how much the lunch that day was a microcosm of life at Olive’s Cottage, with memories from my parents’ time mixing with aspects of how the cottage works for us now. During the afternoon we had lamented to our Tassie friends that we had eaten our breakfast while a recalcitrant wallaby calmly …