Fish Fillets with Prawns and Spinach Rice & Hazelnut Crepes with Chocolate Sauce

Main:  Fish fillets with prawns Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cookbook No. 2 Page 12 Dessert:  Hazelnut crepes with chocolate sauce Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cookbook No. 2 Page 14   Hi there everyone, Hope this weeks little cook-in finds you are well and happy.  We had a lot of fun at Wine Wednesday this week […]

Vietnamese Prawn Salad & Chocolate Mousse

Main:  Vietnamese Prawn Salad The Woolworths Magazine Dessert:  Chocolate Mousse Northern Beaches Cooks Welcome back everyone, hope you’ve had a fab week cooking up a storm. So let’s put away the phones and i-pads and sit around the table and converse – hey no looking at those apple watches either with all the messages and […]

Crispy Skinned Salmon with Soy Dressing & Rustic Cherry Tart

Main:  Crispy-skinned Salmon with Soy Dressing Bills Food Pg. 79 Dessert:  Rustic Cherry Tart Bills Food Pg. 183 Hi there everyone, Hope you have had a fantastic week and tried out some new recipes.  The MAV is away this week at his annual golf challenge so it was an opportunity to have some yummy salmon […]

Smoky Fish Pie & Strawberry and Coconut Ice-cream

Smoky fish pie with cauliflower and bacon From: Delicious.Daily pg. 127 Strawberry and coconut ice-cream From: Delicious.Daily pg. 231 Hi everyone it’s seafood time! Fish pie – what could be yummier?  This particular pie has no pastry but instead delicious, creamy mash.  I think the secret here is to use good quality fish fillets, otherwise […]

Baked salmon fillet & Caramelised apple clafoutis

Main:  Salmon Fillet baked in puff pastry with leek, sultanas & ginger Food Stuff (Mona Vale) Men only in the kitchen with Mark Holland Dessert:  Caramelised Apple Clafoutis From the Complete Book of Modern Classics (Women’s Weekly) Pg. 353 Hi everyone, hope you have had a great week, Well back in 2011 I was thinking along the […]

Flathead Fillets in Fresh Breadcrumbs

Main: Flathead fillets (my own recipe) – be quiet MAV! My own recipe Dessert: Cream Caramels Shop Bought   Hi there everyone! Now before you gasp in horror, please understand that there are days when Wednesdays for one reason or another become so full of various chores (93 year old mother, medical appointments bla bla […]

Honey Prawn Bruschetta and Bloody Mary Crab Pasta

Tonight I felt we needed a break from chicken or meat (much to the dismay of MAV whom I told to just suck it up buttercup) so I went all seafood.  I wanted to try this little bruschetta number too.

Seafood & Cheese Strudel with Lemon Sauce & Banana Soufflé

This is me trying to get a bit more seafood into the family diet (beside the fact that I love it).  I have been doing this Strudel for at least 25 years.  So, my version, as it has evolved, is slightly different and a bit easier too. 

Broccoli, ricotta & smoked salmon pie

Well, of course you can imagine the MAV’s face when he could smell the cooking broccoli permeating our home and asked “what are we having for dinner?” and I told him.  Always wish I have a camera handy…….  BUT, what a surprise this meal was.