Apricot & Raspberry Crostata

Ingredients 225g plain flour 40g icing sugar 115g butter, chopped 500g apricots, stoned & halved 200g raspberries 75g caster sugar, or to taste 1 tablespoon milk Thick cream , to serve   [...]

Upside Down Pear Cake

Ingredients Base layer: 125g butter 1 ½ cups brown sugar 4 pears peeled, cored and quartered Cake: 125g butter, softened 1 cup castor sugar 2 eggs 1 ½ cups self-raising flour, sifted 1 tsp ground [...]

Dominic’s Seasonal Tomato Salad

Serves 4 2 Adelaide flat tomatoes 2 Black Russian tomatoes 2 South Australian tomatoes 1 salad onion 1 bunch basil 1 green chilli 1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive oil 2 tablespoon aged balsamic Salt [...]

Artichoke Friti with salsa verde

Artichoke friti – artichokes fried in a light, crispy batter   Ingredients Baby/large artichokes (1 large or 2 -3 baby artichokes per person) Milk Parsley stalks Flour Oil for frying [...]

Apricot Bread & Butter Pudding

1kg apricots, halved and stoned                                                           Serves 4 1 tbsp lemon juice 75g caster sugar 12 1cm-thick slices brioche 75g soft butter Toasted flaked [...]

Zucchini-Flower & Asparagus Tempura

250g drained ricotta                                                                     1 clove garlic, crushed 2 tablespoons chopped basil 16 zucchini flowers 16 asparagus spears Olive oil, for [...]

Chickpea, Beetroot & Pumpkin salad

600g beetroot, trimmed, cut into wedges 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 garlic cloves, crushed 500g “Jap” pumpkin, peeled, cut into wedges 400g can chickpeas, drained, rinsed ¼ cup (60ml) [...]

Avocado Dip

Flesh of 2 Avocados Juice of ½ lemon 1 garlic clove, crushed 1 vine-ripened tomato chopped, seeds       removed 1 small Lebanese cucumber, chopped ¼ bunch coriander, leaves chopped     Using a [...]

Baked Figs with Raspberries

  500 g figs 500 g raspberries 120 g honey 2 tbsp sugar 60 ml sweet wine (Beaumes de Venise) 500 ml vanilla ice cream when serving   Heat oven to 200°C. Remove the stem ends of the figs and cut [...]