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taro gnocchi

If you need to avoid gluten, eggs or dairy, or if you simply have taro available, then this is such a simple recipe and produces soft pillows of gnocchi-ness, the perfect canvas for your favourite pasta sauce.

cooked taro 'gnocchi'

 

This recipe works best with a large taro corm as that allows for a greater number [...]

Celery seed salt

Celery seed is well known for its beneficial effects on gout and arthritis, both of which are tendencies in our family.

I love the intense celery flavour of celery seed – the seed not of the common garden celery but of a wild cousin, Apium graveolens.  So it is both a culinary pleasure and a preventative [...]

Brazilian spinach – where to get it?

Brazilian spinach (Alternanthera Sissoo)

I’ve just had an enquiry from Meg in Babinda about where to get Brazilian spinach.  This is one green I included in tropical cuisine: cooking in clare’s kitchen knowing that it is not easy to source commercially.  I decided to include it though as it is SO easy to grow at [...]

coconut and jicama

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts

I’ve been wanting to experiment with cooking with coconut water, and I’ve got my chance today with a lovely bunch of young coconuts given to me by Paul Richardson, the inventor of the marvellous Cocotap.  Cocotap is a bit of a tropical essential as it makes getting into [...]

tropical gardeners and cooks: some useful links

It occurred to me that it might be helpful to other tropical home kitchen gardeners and cooks to share some of the great online resources that I tap into when researching ingredients, so here is a start to some of the sites I visit:

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/

Home page for the Purdue University New Crop website which has an enormous [...]