Zucchini Pie with Bacon / 8 Spice Blends / Squash Puppies with Roasted Jalapeño Mayonnaise

Blog Post & Recipe: Zucchini pie with bacon

Call it quiche or pie - either way you'll love the combination of shredded zucchini, smoky bacon and green onions in a cheesy custard base.

Article & Recipes: Spice world

Read about these eight beloved blends from around the globe, then start trying them out at home.

Baharat ... Tabil ... Za’atar ... Ras el hanout ... Herbes de la garrigue ... Berbere ... Panch phoron ... Tempero baiano

Blog Post & Recipe: Squash Puppies with Roasted Jalapeño Mayonnaise

The squash in these Squash Puppies is chopped so finely that it melts into the rest of the batter, giving you balls of cornbread that are as crispy and golden brown as any I’ve ever had. The squash adds the slightest hint of sweetness, not enough to alarm a picky eater, but you’ll know it’s there. It also seems to help the batter form a tighter crumb, so the hush puppies are a little more tender inside but perfectly capable of sopping up ketchup, tartar sauce and Foster’s suggested accompaniment: her Roasted Jalapeño Mayonnaise.

Mayonnaise in 60 Seconds / Silverbeet Stems with Sesame-Yogurt Sauce & Black Sesame Seeds / Ham Cooked in Hay with Beer

Blog Post & Video & Recipe: Mayonnaise in 60 seconds (video recipe)

ALL INGREDIENTS MUST BE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE; YOU NEED AN IMMERSION BLENDER/HAND-HELD BLENDER FOR THIS METHOD

Blog Post & Recipe: Stem that waste

So here is a recipe for chard stems, braised and served with a tahini-yogurt sauce and black sesame seeds. It’s a very simple dish. And if you have the greens, you can cook them and serve the two together. Amounts are really irrelevant here; you can do this with pounds of chard stems if you have them. Just make more sauce as needed.

Chard Stems with Sesame-Yogurt Sauce and Black Sesame Seeds

Blog Post & Recipe: Cooking with hay

[Elena] Molokhovets [author of Russian cookbooks] was using hay to stew cabbage by spreading it on the oven floor ‘as soon as the rye loaves are moved from the oven’ (to judge the right temperature), to boil jars of preserves wrapped in straw to prevent them from knocking, to store eggs and fruit, to test the readiness of cakes etc etc. The possibilities of using hay was truly limitless – a 19th century equivalent to our microwave (not that I own one of course!)!

Ham cooked in hay with beer

Concept: cook with hay. Eat silverbeet stems.