With Christmas just around the corner, ‘tis the season for residents to enjoy our Traditional Roast Beef. Remember to take your meat out of the fridge ahead of time, as cooking from room temperature allows a more consistent cook. If time permits, we suggest rubbing your meat all over with a little oil and searing the outside in a hot pan before roasting. This seals in the juices and keeps your roast moist. Dijon mustard and horseradish cream make the…
‘Happy Holidays’ can represent a variety of celebrations these days. In fact, Yuletide presents a wonderful opportunity to ensure residents of all denominations are catered for. With the cold weather approaching, our Matzo Ball soup is a lovely nod to our Jewish friends. The purported curative powers of this soup (aka ‘Jewish penicillin’) will see it as a welcome addition on any menu. Made it? Snap a photo and hashtag it #soupeduprecipes. We love to see your creations on Instagram…
Show-stopping Christmas Apple-Glazed Pork Roast Nothing speaks of Christmas like a juicy roast pork, crowned with crisp crackling and paired with sweet, toffee-like apples. Even with the warm weather in Australia, roast pork is a stand out dish that never looks out of place at the Christmas table. Pork shoulder is a succulent cut that’s best braised or roasted slowly, so it stays tender and juicy. The sweet-and-savory glazed pork here is terrific with or without stuffing. The adage that…
Can you believe it’s nearly Christmas? How quickly the year has flown. Christmas is a beautiful time of year, perfect for family, fun and festivities. Luckily for us in the Southern hemisphere, it’s also cherry season. Lasting just 100 days, the first cherry harvest starts in October/November in the eastern mainland states and extends through to late February with the majority of cherry crops harvested during December and January. Cherries are touted to offer a range of health benefits, including: Rich in antioxidants and…
When we think of traditional Christmas meals we often consider warm and hearty foods such as Christmas puddings or heavy roasts. These meals are however more typically winter foods, better suited to the European ‘White Christmas’. With the summer heat coming on and Aussies’ penchant for ‘chuckin’ a shrimp on the barbie’, no meal signifies Christmas in Australia better than prawns. Australian prawns can be wild caught or farmed and there are four main varieties: King, Tiger, Banana and Endeavour….