New recipe! Boxing day buttermilk pancakes

Boxing day buttermilk pancakes -by cuzzy Pete!

 
These are so easy, and make a great big batch perfect for the day after Christmas to feed the troupe.

Boxing day buttermilk pancakes

New recipe! Clams and chorizo with pearl couscous

Pictured: clams/vongole and chorizo with pearl couscous (photo credit Bridget Nicholson)

This is the other main dish i served at my latest large dinner party, alongisde the Roasted rainbow trout with a tomato citrus dressing, which I posted last week.

This quick and easy dish - clams, or vongole, with chorizo, lemon, wine, garlic, parsley, on a bed of pearl couscous to soak it all up, was a HUGE hit. Even those who weren't an original vongole fan were converted.

Clams are so fast to cook too, so very handy to know a good recipe.

This is based on a Fiona Smith recipe I found in an edition of the NZ Cuisine magazine.

New Recipe! Roasted whole rainbow trout with a tomato citrus dressing.

Roasted whole rainbow trout with a tomato citrus dressing

An Ottolenghi recipe from his "Simple" cookbook.

This is perfect for one, or for a dinner party for 14 like I did - wow factor yum and easily doubles, triples.. prep in advance ready for a hot oven cook.

Love this one.

New receipe ! Flourless chocolate cake with almond meal (A Donna Hay recipe)

I am finally back and cooking again!

Starting with something I bake ALOT.

This is a favourite in the house plus my go to for one of the quickest, easiest cake recipes ever.

It started as one I found for a school cake stall the night before, and I chose it due to the lack of time I had plus I noticed -

A. I had all the ingredients already

B. I did not need to wait for butter to soften, then

C. I did not need to even seperate the eggs.

Win win, and then it was THE BEST!

For recipe - Flourless chocolate cake with almond meal

Recipe of the week - Slow cooker eggplant parmigiana

Taste Buddy. Sharing the food love - Slow cooker eggplant parmigiana

I was just talking about my favourite slow cooker recipes over the weekend, and I thought of this wonderful vegetarian one. I had eggplant in the fridge and made this again today - it works so well! And a good reminder that the slow cooker is not just for stews.