3 Simple Low Calorie Recipes for Entertaining at Home

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With these three simple recipes created by Five Star Personal Trainers, having a few friends over for dinner means you and your guests won't to spend hours in the gym the next day to work off everything you ate the night before. Apple Poached Salmon Ingredients 1 x Salmon fillet for each person 1L Apple juice for poaching Dressing: 1 tbsp. olive oil 1 tbsp. Apple Juice Concentrate Handful fresh mint and parsley 1 tbsp. Fresh lemon … [Read more...]

Recipe: Fresh Fruit Cake

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Looking for a fun and healthy alternative to a birthday cake? Then look no further, check out this great tutorial from Ebony Malcolm, author of Neat 2 Eat - Everyday Lunchbox Recipes & Fun with Food, on how to make cakes out of fresh fruit! Fresh fruit cakes are a fun emerging food trend and are great for kids who are egg free, dairy free, gluten free, nut free or any other type of allergy/intolerance which makes them great for shared … [Read more...]

What’s next for My Kitchen Rules winner Jennifer Evans

2012 My Kitchen Rules winner Jennifer Evans

Jennifer Evans has been keeping herself busy since winning the 2012 season of My Kitchen Rules with her friend Leigh Sexton. In addition to becoming a mum to three-month-old Harlow, Jennifer has set up a charity for underprivileged children and launched her own unique range of Thai pastes made from ingredients sourced from rural growers in Thailand. Dubbed the cooking show's 'princess', Jennifer Evans has spent months in the crop fields on … [Read more...]

A Recipe for Fresh Fig and Walnut Tart from the French Kitchen

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When figs are in season—or if you are lucky enough to have a tree, this is the way to use some up. Akin to the rose-patterned strawberry tart in the placing of the figs, the result is spectacular, and—like all tarts—make the ideal dessert because they are finished and ready before dinner, allowing you precious time with your guests. The following recipe for Fresh Fig and Walnut Tart is an extract from A lifetime of cooking, teaching and … [Read more...]

A Recipe for Cheese Souffle from the French Kitchen

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This recipe for Cheese Souffle is an extract from A lifetime of cooking, teaching and writing from The French Kitchen by Diane Holuigue. Much more than a recipe book, the best-selling author of The French Kitchen, Diane Holuigue, seeks to demystify the art of cooking, explaining the logic behind the technique. Combining the concepts of classical French cooking from Diane Holuigue’s best-selling title The French Kitchen (first published in … [Read more...]

Spooky Cocktail Recipes for Halloween

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While outside ghosts and ghouls frolic freely, these fresh fruity flavours are the perfect potions for dressing up Halloween cocktails with a sinfully sophisticated twist. This selection of creepy cocktails made with SKYY® Vodka is quick and easy to create and is an inexpensive way to spice up any Halloween party. Serve them up in monstrously fun cocktail glasses with a parade of ghastly garnishes – they’re so wickedly good you and your … [Read more...]

Good Cook Bad Cook: 20 Rules for the Kitchen 80 Essential Recipes

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Victoria Heywood came across many weird, supposedly edible, things in 17 years travelling the world as a journalist, but none so strange as some of the dishes she encountered back home in Australia when researching Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons. But you won't find any possum pie or beetroot beer in her latest offering, Good Cook Bad Cook. What you will find is 80 essential recipes for home cooking. From bread to burgers and pesto to … [Read more...]

Taste Cook Travel

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Australian Chef Pauline Leonard (pictured), best known for the cooking classes she runs at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne, has been conducting gourmet food & wine weekend tours for small groups since 2009. To coincide with the launch of a new Gourmet Tasting Tour of Healesville, in Victoria's Yarra Valley, she has launched her new website 'Taste Cook Travel'. In addition to offering gourmet food & wine tours in Victoria, Taste Cook … [Read more...]

Cookbook: The Australian Women’s Weekly Cooking for Kids with Allergies

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The Australian Women's Weekly Cooking for Kids with Allergies offers delicious recipes for children with food allergies that the whole family will love. Food allergies in children are becoming increasingly common and finding suitable food for them can be a nightmare for parents. This new cookbook from The Australian Women’s Weekly is here to help parents. However, these recipes are not ‘special’ food, they can be eaten with pleasure by … [Read more...]

Cookbook: The Australian Women’s Weekly Decorating Cakes

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The Australian Women's Weekly Decorating Cakes is full of gorgeous and lavishly decorated cakes for weddings, christenings, birthdays, anniversaries and for any other occasion that calls for a celebration. It begins with easy recipes for cake decorating novices, then follows on with cakes for more experienced decorators, that with a bit of practice, anyone can do. The final chapter of the book introduces piping and modelling paste for use by … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: The Sweet Life by Kate Bracks

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[rating: 4] Being the consummate sweet tooth, it didn't take much to convince me to dive into Kate Bracks' new book - The Sweet Life - a collection of divine temptations from Australia's 2011 MasterChef winner. Mother to three young children, Kate lives in Orange, New South Wales, where she is working towards running her own B&B - an establishment that will no doubt feature exquisite food, and (I am hoping) some of the tempting recipes … [Read more...]

10 Delicious Desserts that won’t ruin your diet

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No one likes to miss out on dessert. In fact, no one should miss out on dessert! We all love a little decadence every now and then and there’s no reason that you can’t indulge your taste buds with these delicious recipes. Make the right choices, play around with some ingredients and you can have your cake and eat it too plus ice-cream, meringue, chocolate pudding and much more. Here are 10 desserts from The Moodie Foodie that won’t have … [Read more...]

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Cookbook Review: Supercharged Food by Lee Holmes

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Supercharged Food: Eat your way to good health by Lee Holmes is a new cookbook aimed at reversing the damage of modern day convenience and aiding you in optimizing your diet. Whether you suffer from an auto immune disease, food allergy or just feel run down Supercharged Food is here to help. This book is more than just a collection of delicious recipes it is the testament of its author who herself suffers from a non specific auto immune … [Read more...]

Jamie Oliver’s Mobile Kitchen offers free cooking classes in Queensland

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Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food Mobile Kitchen will travel throughout Queensland teaching basic cooking classes. The purpose built kitchen classroom on wheels will commence its 2012 Program starting in Logan on Friday 20th January 2012. Jamie’s Ministry of Food Truck will offer a five-week cooking course, comprising of one 90-minute cooking class per week. Participants throughout Queensland will learn Jamie’s hints and shortcuts to … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: A Cook’s Guide by Donna Hay

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[rating: 4.5] It's easy to recognise a Donna Hay cookbook. The queen of gorgeous styling and branding knows the power of both familiarity and consistent best quality, and A Cook's Guide - a compendium of donna hay magazine's How to Cook sections - is another mouthwatering concoction for the home cook who wants simplicity with their deliciousness. There's a reason we're keen to master classic recipes and dishes that stand the test of time. … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: The Art of French Baking by Ginette Mathiot

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[rating: 5] Oh yes, it's an art all right. Like sushi chefs, French pâtissières spend many years studying and perfecting their craft. Ginette Mathiot (1907 - 1998) taught three generations of French families how to cook. The author of over 30 cookbooks, running the gamut of French cuisine, this legendary food writer has brought together a definitive collection of classic French receipes in such bestselling tomes as Je sais cuisiner (I know how … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: 4 Ingredients Christmas by Kim McCosker

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[rating: 4.5] Prepare to be tempted by the latest in the 4 ingredients series, 4 Ingredients Christmas by Kim McCosker.  Packed with delights for the holidays and treats for family and friends all year round. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the series, 4 ingredients recipe books are designed to be accessible no matter how handy you are in the kitchen or how much time you have in your schedule.  Each recipe can be made with 4 … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: The Cook’s Garden by Sheridan Rogers

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[rating: 5] I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older and can truly appreciate those little underrated treasures in life, but there’s not much more satisfying than plucking home-grown produce from your very own garden. Even better – serving it up to appreciative friends and family with flavours that hark back to a 1970s childhood (or earlier) when tomatoes tasted like warm sunshine and raspberries couldn’t be eaten without … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Sicilian Seafood Cooking by Marisa Raniolo Wilkins

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[rating: 4] The wonderful thing about modern day cookbooks is their reliance on more than fabulous recipes. It's their reliance on travel, on culture, on a way of living . . . a reliance on heart, emotion, experience, as well as flavour texture and culinary fulfillment. Sicilian Seafood Cooking is one such book. Food writer and first-time author Marisa Raniolo Wilkins was born in Trieste before moving to Australia with her Sicilian … [Read more...]

Book Review: Popsicle by Alison Thompson

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[rating: 4] Summer is busting out all over and this icy book is just the sweet ticket to an oasis of cool (even if only for the tongue). Best be careful where you shelve this brand new tome of freezer-bound pleasure, lest the kids see and you're forced to spend the next fortnight whipping up batch after endless batch of frozen delight. Then again - when you see the recipes in store, you may not need much convincing. Blow the diet, you're far … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Planet Cake Celebrate by Paris Cutler

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[rating: 3] Having a long-time obsession with fondant, sprinkles, cupcake liners and ganache, it was with much anticipation that I carefully inked in the Lifestyle Food Channel-arrival of the television version of Planet Cake, taking 3D to a whole new level. Propped up on the couch with my similarly-obsessed 11-year-old daughter, we pressed our hands together in pink glee at the glamorous, be-sugared creations pouring forth from the … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Around the World with Little Kitchen by Sabrina Parrini

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[rating: 4] Since the advent of Junior Masterchef, cookbooks for children have never been hotter – and indeed, they’ve been popping off the hotplate and onto the bookstore serving shelves like those notoriously quick hot cakes, of late. This latest tome by Sabrina Parrini, cookbook author and Kitchen Wiz presenter, follows on from her first book – Little Kitchen – and takes readers on a culinary journey around the world. Promising … [Read more...]

Recipe: Pink Cupcakes

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22nd October, 2011 marks the National Breast Cancer Foundation's Pink Ribbon Breakfast, where women across the country are encouraged to gather for fundraising events to help raise awareness for breast cancer. To help inspire you to think pink and host your very own high-tea inspired event, the Australian Egg Corporation has developed two delicious Egg, Smoked Salmon and Cucumber Double Decker Sandwich and Cupcake recipes. Pink … [Read more...]

Recipe: Egg, Smoked Salmon and Cucumber Double Decker Sandwiches

Free Recipe: Egg, Smoked Salmon and Cucumber Double Decker Sandwiches

A high-tea favourite, the Egg, Smoked Salmon and Cucumber Double Decker is a scrumptious light option that is effortless to create. Three simple ingredients - hearty egg, indulgent smoked salmon and refreshing cucumber, stacked in between fresh wholemeal slices to create a layered, mouth-watering delight! The Egg, Smoked Salmon and Cucumber Double Decker is not only scrumptious; it also provides fibre and iron and is a great source of folate- … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Blood Sugar by Michael Moore

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[rating: 4.5] Hello. My name is Tania and I'm a sugarholic. So are you (more than likely). In fact, sugar-addiction is so rife, we're in danger of crystallising. Sure, we're cottoning onto the fact that even our most savoury foods - those that tingle the tongue with that salty edge - are also packed with sugar, but do we really realise just how very much? In fact, you'd probably be hard-pressed to find any partly processed foods without a … [Read more...]

Cookbook: CWA Classics by the Country Women’s Associations of Australia

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The Country Women’s Association of Australia has been in existence for more than 60 years and the cooking skills of its members are legendary. CWA Classics combines the very best recipes from five previously published books into one easily accessible volume. Each and every recipe in CWA Classics reflects the way in which pioneer women used simple ingredients to make good, honest, wholesome meals and to ensure the household had a year-round … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Mangia! Mangia! by Teresa Oates and Angela Villella

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[rating:5] “When we told Nonna Villella that sun-dried tomatoes were selling for $40 a kilo at the local supermarket, she thought we were joking. She had quietly gone about making her filled sun-dried tomatoes for as long as we could remember. The thought of spending hard-earned money on a food that relies on the sun, which is free, and tomatoes, that grow in the garden, baffled her. Plus the fact that the commercial variety was vuote (empty) … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Two Asian Kitchens by Adam Liaw

Two Asian Kitchens Recipes from Australia's Masterchef

I was absolutely thrilled when Adam Liaw won Australia’s second MasterChef – I became personally enamoured with this cooking style (Japanese food and I have a thing going) and warm demeanor, and I remember the very first thing I thought of as the winning sparkles came tumbling down was – “oooh, goodie! a cookbook!”. And here it is. Two Asian Kitchens is the work of a virtual lifetime of culinary influences that stretches from … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Bake: Essential Companion by Alison Thompson

Okay - you wanna bake? Well, welcome to baking heaven. From the pale pink and black Fauchon-esque, superbly-styled cover, dotty endpapers and delectable paper - to the recipes themselves - this is a book so sweet, it's already dusted with icing sugar and melting in my mouth. Author Alison Thompson has been a passionate cook since childhood, writing her first cookbook when she was just 11 years old. With 15 years experience as a professional … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Junior MasterChef

[rating:4] If the adult version of MasterChef really roasted your potatoes, then it's likely (unless you're the type who doesn't like working with animals or small children) that Junior MasterChef also inspired you - or perhaps the kids - more than ever before. I loved the series and, other than making me feel completely incompetent in a culinary sense, I must admit I was totally gobsmacked by the gastronomic talent of these tots. By tots, I … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Hopscotch and Honey Joys by Lisa McCune

[rating:4.5] Once upon a time, it was de rigeur for celebrities to release a hit single. Or a perfume. Nowadays, it seems, it's books. But not just the ubiqitous 'auto'-biography (the inverted commas are due to the fact that they are usually actually penned by someone else)... the celeb book production line is extending well beyond the sordid tales of life-past and instead delving into a whole other world … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Manu’s French Kitchen by Manu Feildel

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[rating:4] French food, home style. The message that chef Manu Feildel wants us to take from his latest cook book is that making beautiful French cuisine doesn’t have to be a near impossible feat. And the good news is, he’s right. Yes, he’s the expert, and he should be right. But sometimes a cook book promises so much and just doesn’t deliver. We’ve all been there: trying a dish for the first time, certain it will be delicious and … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Table by the River by Dietmar Sawyere

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[rating:4.5] If the luscious cover complete with handsome man adorning Table by the River doesn't immediately draw you in, the culinary story behind this internationally acclaimed chef will soon have you scrabbling to add his gorgeous book to your collection - for it's not just an impressive array of recipes Dietmar Sawyere shares in this beautifully presented book. Filled with musings on a lifetime of incredible culinary roles from Chef … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: The Cook’s Book of Ingredients

[rating:4.5] I've always been a Dorling Kindersley fan. The intense research, the clear, concise, comprehensive offering of information, the focus on visual splendour... they just stand alone. DK books are always a feast for anyone intent on learning, growing, expanding and conquering... and there's probably nowhere more popular for the desire to divide and conquer than the kitchen. Part of the joy of cooking is understanding the ingredients … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: India The Cookbook

[rating:4.5] When I first took India The Cookbook and lifted it up, the first thing that struck me was the weight. Many fat, tome-like cookbooks (and there are many of late) are like poured concrete, making cooking from them a bit of a task and reading them on the couch the equivalent of a six-year-old on your lap. India is light. Very light. Curiously light. On inner-inspection, I soon noticed this is because of the paper used inside - a … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Cook Like an Italian by Tobie Puttock

[rating:4] Tobie Puttock is well-known for his passion for Italian cuisine but this time, he has really outdone himself. This is not just a cookbook, it is an Italian experience, one that is personal to Puttock. The result of a six-week trip to immerse himself in the Italian way of life, beginning in Venice and heading south, Cook Like an Italian is as much a memento of his time in Italy as it is a cookbook. And that in itself sums up … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: The Sam Stern Series

[rating:4] I first had the pleasure of reviewing young Sam Stern's Eat Vegetarian (see AWO's review here) back in June and I must admit, I was instantly hooked. Publishing his first book at the age of 14 (okay, with a little help from his mum), this young food-lover has released an astonishing five books - and he's still a teen! Cooking up a Storm, his inaugural book, was released in 2005, quickly followed by Real Food, Real Fast in 2006. In … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: OMG! I Can Eat That? by Jane Kennedy

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[rating:3] A big fan of Jane Kennedy’s first cookbook, Fabulous Food Minus the Boombah, I was thrilled to see her second book hit the shelves. And I spent a week devoted to this new book, to check if it’s as good as the first. What I loved about her first book was the simple, yet flavoursome and gorgeously presented, recipes that make eating at home even simpler than picking up takeaway. I loved that she had taken recipes such as Beef … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Bill’s Basics by Bill Granger

[rating:4] For those of us who don't want to spend forty-five minutes slicing a carrot into needles or four hours kneading, whipping, layering and begging ingredients to perform culinary acrobatics chefs spend decades training for, Bill's Basics is like a shining beacon glinting from the farthest shore of Celebrity Chef Island. The ever down-to-earth and totally amiable Granger has delivered the goods of simplicity in this new book, just … [Read more...]

Cookbook Review: Kitchen by Nigella Lawson

[rating:4.5] With her sensual, tempting, home-cooking-made-sophisticated style, the queen of the kitchen is back with this luscious, jam-packed tome of recipes – straight from the heart of the home. Of course, Lawson would be horrified to hear herself described as sophisticated, after all, pretension and complexity are what she openly strives to avoid. This home cook (never call her a chef!) is known for her simplicity, seasonal flavour and … [Read more...]