GOOD NEWS !
Tropical cuisine: cooking in clare’s kitchen is now available nationally through Angus & Robertson bookstores.
So if you have been wanting to check out my cookbook, go to your local Angus & Robertson bookstore and ask them to order it in for you.
Because I am now in their national network it is easy for your local Angus and Robertson store to order stock, thanks to the Cairns Central store who are the lovely people who have ordered my cookbook and so got it into the national Angus and Robertson network.
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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 amount of information and links, some of which are below.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/parmar/index.html
An online copy of the Indian book Wild Fruits
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/index.html
An online copy of Julia Morton’s classic reference for tropical and sub-tropical fruits, Fruits of Warm Climates
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/documents/Research/Qld-Tropical-Fruit.pdf
A downloadable PDF by the Queensland Government with a nutritional summary of a range of tropical fruit.
http://www.rirdc.gov.au/
If you have an interest in in-depth information on particular tropical food plants, both introduced and native to Australia, it is worth searching through the reports and publications produced by RIRDC.
Perfect pastry for the tropics © Clare Richards 2009 - 2010
Pastry can easily be a very ordinary thing. Too hard, too soft, too stodgy, too thick when cooked; the dough too sticky and wet when mixed, or too liable to melt on you when rolled out. Add to that the very different cooking conditions of tropical climates, with long periods of the year with consistent heat and humidity, and it becomes even more difficult.
So I’ve been trialling and researching, and have come up with a recipe that is dead easy to prepare, works consistently, works on a hot or humid day, and produces a pastry that can be rolled thin, that melts in your mouth, and yet holds firm when filled and when cut.
It’s so good that you’ll have to wait until my cookbook Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare’s Kitchen comes out mid 2010 to get the recipe. For now, here’s a photo of a durian tart I made with the perfect pastry for the tropics.
© Clare Richards 2009 – 2010
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