Yes, it’s finally underway! tropical cuisine: cooking in clare’s kitchen is on its way to print and will be available in November. To celebrate and give people a sense of the book to come, I have a free 40 page sample of pages from the cookbook which is sent out to subscribers. So to receive your copy, simply sign up in the column to the right and the link to the download will be sent to you. Look forward to your comments!
warm regards
Clare
I am very happy to say that the foreword to tropical cuisine: cooking in clare’s kitchen has been written by Stephanie Alexander, renowned cook, restaurateur and author of The Cook’s Companion and The Kitchen Garden Companion http://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/
I am in Victoria for the week visiting family, and it makes talking of winter nights in Cairns seem a bit comical – it’s freezing here, and I’ve got everything rugged up. Nonetheless, we do have our own version of winter, and I still do crave those wintry dishes. I recently put together the dish below, and it is great winter fare – lush, flavoursome and comforting.
Beef cheeks with mandarin and prunes
1.8 to 2kg beef cheeks
1 tablespoon sweet paprika
1 tablespoon smoky paprika
6-7 whole red shallots, peeled
1 head garlic, peeled
2/3 of the skin of 1 large mandarin
1 1/2 cups pitted prunes
2 teaspoon flaky salt Continue reading 'Winter nights'»
don't waste the cooking water! stock in the making... © Catseye Productions 2009-2010
Having packed over 250 recipes into the recipe chapters, over 45 produce profiles in the A to Z, an Essentials section and lots of photographs into tropical cuisine: cooking in clare’s kitchen, I’ve run out of room for anything more. So I decided to list some extras here on the website, including the following three stock recipes. Stock is not something I make to an exact recipe, but it can be handy to give a general idea of times and flavours to include, so here they are: Continue reading 'Stock standards'»
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