The last two weeks have literally been a blur of cooking,eating,friends and relatives, and forays into the stunning part of the world that is now our home – Cape Otway. If I may just relive,recap and bathe in the lingering culinary deliciousness of the festive season by sharing the following highlights: » Read more: Festive Highlights
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Festive Highlights
January 7th, 2010Porchetta
November 16th, 2009You know you’re a parent when Christmas feels to you like like it’s approaching at the speed of light but to the small people in your life there’s clearly more than an eternity still to wait. It’s definitely time to start thinking food. It’s also time to start considering the annual logistical challenge of getting a large pine tree into our shoebox of a house, but that’s another story. Porchetta is really the ultimate festive roast beast to me. We had a beautiful boutique porchetta purchased from a deli in Lygon St for our wedding spread and I’ve been a big fan ever since. I’ve since fiddled around with a few recipes and have finally got a method sorted that seems to work consistently well for me. It takes a while to cook but is otherwise dead simple. This will definitely be appearing at Christmas lunch this year, probably with a lentil salad. » Read more: Porchetta
Rose geranium peaches
November 16th, 2009There used to be two things that my mum would regularly commission from me for breakfast on Christmas morning. The first (strawberry daiquiris) has been banned from Riches family festive proceedings since 2006 due to the fact that everyone was so smashed by 10.00 a.m. that Christmas lunch became all but impossible. We now have a vastly more civilised Campari and orange and / or champagne cocktail while we open presents which seems to make it easier to get to the post – pudding glass of Benedictine.The other thing is my peaches poached in rose geranium syrup. » Read more: Rose geranium peaches
