Chicken and barley stew – another one for the slow cooker

Chicken and barley stew

Have you every paid $5 for a potato? No? I thought it was pretty insane too but that’s the price people were prepared to pay for a fancy potato spiral on a stick at the Racecourse Road carnival yesterday. The potatoes are cut using one of those spiral apple corer/peelers, threaded onto a stick and [...]

Slow-cooked beef and leek with kidney beans – welcome to winter

Slow-cooked beef and leek with kidney beans

Hello winter! I don’t like your temperatures all that much but I do like the hearty, warming food you let me make. Winter hasn’t really arrived with a bang here in Brisbane. In fact I think it’s the warmest day since I got back. It felt so wintery earlier in the week I decided it [...]

Farewell winter – slow cooker recipe round up

Moroccan lamb curry

Although I’m sitting here with the heater by my feet (smoothie for breakfast was a bad idea), winter is nearing its end for the year. I won’t miss the cold mornings and chilly nights but I will miss warming winter fare. I love rich stews and casseroles and all foods better suited to the cooler [...]

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