Notes about Recipes in this book

• Smoked bacon, potato and corn chowder

  • e_ballad on October 26, 2018

    Good but not outstanding. The flavour was dominated almost completely by the bacon, so consider winding back if you prefer a more corn-flavoured chowder.

• Roasted cauliflower salad with yoghurt dressing and almonds

  • e_ballad on May 14, 2018

    There’s either been a typo or no one has actually tested this recipe. 90g puffed quinoa??? It doesn’t sound much, but that equates to a bowl of puffed quinoa per serve! I used 20g & that’s still a lot. I suspect that the quinoa is also the culprit for this being such a ‘dry’ salad - we rarely need the amount of dressing used in recipes, but in this instance I would really recommend almost doubling the amount of yoghurt dressing as the salad really needs it to provide some cohesion between the ingredients.

• Stir-fried Australian native greens

  • foodgloriousfood on October 10, 2021

    Link doesn’t go to correct page Seems to be the same recipe as this one (link does work for this) Stir-fried Australian native greens with garlic from Australian Gourmet Traveller Magazine, August 2019 (page 67) by Kylie Kwong

• Lemongrass beef with rice noodles

  • e_ballad on April 30, 2021

    Made without the chillies due to the kids, with 2 out of 3x devouring this with gusto. Very quick for a midweek meal.

• Miso chicken and green beans with sesame

  • e_ballad on January 21, 2020

    I was worried that this might be too umami, but it was really well balanced. The beans needed longer to cook than the chicken, so I would suggest cooking them first rather than adding them together at the same time.

• Rosemary, mustard and brandy chicken with buttered carrots

  • e_ballad on April 02, 2019

    Tasty & quick to prepare. The sauce has a lot of flavour, but is very thin, with a large quantity produced. Well worth having something starchy alongside to mop this up.

• Apricot chicken biryani

  • e_ballad on January 31, 2019

    Not a great biryani. Turned into a sodden mess of soggy rice. The flavours were only so-so.

• Roast apricot and vanilla fool

  • e_ballad on January 28, 2021

    Very rich & very sweet. The portion sizes need to be halved to make 8x serves. What started as a tasty dessert, rapidly became too ‘weighty’ & no one actually finished their serving.

• Cornflake cookies

  • e_ballad on March 12, 2022

    Hoping that these would emulate the nostalgic biscuits that my grandma made, these were a sad disappointment.

• Cacao, hazelnut and raspberry cake

  • e_ballad on April 03, 2019

    This really didn’t taste good at all. It essentially tastes like dense solidified chocolate cake mix. It seems like it needs to be cooked significantly longer, however, then it wouldn’t be texturally appealing. One to avoid.