"Knock Knock!!" "Who's there?" "Onion". "Onion who?" "Onion glad you booked into an Alma Plate cooking class?!" Except that last time we cut onions in class while making Caramelised Onions Soup, everyone started crying! Onions really are powerful.
Butter is a wonderful comforting food on these cold winter days and nights. Not commonly consumed on its own, butter is best paired with another. Think of the highly desired Croissant - which is 1/3rd butter. Or simple buttered bread or toast. Baked or sauteed veggies with butter. Cakes
Blood oranges are the spookiest fruit there is. It's like an early Halloween when they make their appearance in South East Queensland around July each year. Blood oranges are super sweet with a barely perceptible tang. The tangy overtone heralds from the existence of the compound Anthocyanin. Without
We're happy to be launching our 3rd series of cooking classes coming up this winter/spring season. First cab off the rank is a repeat of our popular Make Your Own Dairy Products class (previously called Yoghurt, Whey and Ghee making). We've changed the name as
We've just completed our second series of food skills workshops, with Winter Comfort Foods this past Saturday. It was a lovely day - making lots of satisfying foods - featuring a fair amount of cream and butter and oil : ), and a bunch of other food groups for balance
This past Saturday, it was a dream come true to host a food skills workshop on a farm setting. And not just any farm - our most local farm, in this case aptly named Neighbourhood Farm. Neighbourhood farm is so picturesque. Our cheesemaking workshop was wonderfully enriched in this connected
It's citrus season. So many wonderful citrus fruits coming into abundance in South East Queensland at the moment - lemons, mandies, oranges.. Actually, its a bit of a furphy that there is a season for lemons, as lemon trees flower continuously and have fruit in various stages of
Another underdog autumn fruit, Custard Apples are gnarly looking. You have to wait patiently until they are just the right softness to eat, then pounce on them. It seems like they are at that right softness for about 5 minutes... then they start deteriorating quickly, until eventually they taste a
Who doesn't love rice? It's a staple food for over half of our world's population. Over 750 million tonnes produced annually, with India and China producing over 50% of this rice. Rice was domesticated in Asia over 10,000 years ago. There are so
We've added a second 'Master Recipe' to the website. Master Recipes are versatile and can provide an endless amount of variety to your weekly meals by changing up the proteins, vegetables and sauce combinations. The Master Recipe for Geeta's Curry is long and complicated,
New season cauliflower is just arriving on the scene. The first caulis of the season are small and bright white. Sooo tempting! There is one dish - comprised of two parts that can exist on their own, but are much better together. Roast cauliflower with Lemon Tahini Sauce. They are
Feijoas. Another underdog of the Brisbane fruit world. The feijoa pops up early autumn and packs a sweet n sour punch. Perhaps best described as zingy. Like a fruit tingle, with more of the fruit and less of the tingle. Like the friendly fig and nashi previously spotlighted, you can