Recipes
The book
Local Food Connect teamed up with the Diamond Valley Group of the Country Women’s Association to create the recipe book, Pick, Share, Eat, celebrating the beauty, flavour and earthy pleasures of growing and eating seasonal, local food. The book presents around 150 recipes using local ingredients and you are encouraged to experiment with foods that you have never tried before such as taro, feijoas and Warrigal greens.
The book is available for download here – ‘right click and save as’ to download or ‘left click’ to view in your browser. Alternatively, all the recipes are listed below, together with some extras, and can be clicked to see their details. The widgets on the right hand sidebar also allow you to search the recipes by ingredient, keyword, course, season or author.
Since the book’s publication, a further 50 recipes by local cooks have been added, bring the total to 200.
In passing, and apropos of nothing, something that has been bugging me for ages: why do recipes rarely contain the words “the” or “a” (at least until I get my hands on them)? Is it some sort of rule? Who decided?
The recipes
- Apricot nectar
- Artichokes and potatoes
- Asian and fennel pork steaks served with smashed potatoes and a rocket, pear and feta salad
- Asparagus frittata
- Asparagus wraps
- Autumn chutney
- Baked pumpkin and sage risotto
- Black olive tapenade
- Blackberry & apple crumble with granola
- Blueberry and nectarine sauce
- Braised sauerkraut
- Broad bean guacamole
- Broad bean soup
- Broad bean soup with carrots
- Broad bean, leek and fennel top risotto
- Broad beans fuul midammis
- Broad beans linguine with ricotta
- Broccoli and snow pea stir fry
- Burmese barbecued pork shoulder
- Cape gooseberry jam
- Caramelised pumpkin, walnut and fetta salad
- Carob chocolate
- Carrot and barley patties
- Carrot and sweet potato soup Thai style
- Carrot rose with goat’s curd
- Chocolate making
- Chocolate raspberry brownies
- Chocolate zucchini muffins
- Choko gratin
- Cooked radishes
- Cream of jerusalem artichoke soup
- Creamy mushroom soup with rosemary croutons
- Crunch turnip crumble
- Cumquat pickle
- Cumquat schnapps
- Curing black olives
- Curing green olives
- Dairy-free vegetarian lasagne
- Easy but nourishing biscuits
- Eggplant and tomato casserole
- Eggplant pickles (or brinjal)
- Elderflower champagne
- Feijoa chutney
- Feijoa jelly
- Fennel pasta
- Finnish vegetable salad (rosolli)
- Fresh bean salad
- Fruit flummery
- Fruit sponge
- Gazpacho – cold spanish soup
- German apple pie
- Gluten free pumpkin and ricotta pie
- Gorgeous feijoa almond cake
- Granny Smith sorbet
- Green babaco chutney
- Green babaco salad
- Green tomato pickles
- Guava jelly
- Homemade lemon drink
- Homemade sauerkraut
- Honey and pine nut tart
- Honey baked persimmons
- Hot cucumber soup
- Hot spiced cherries
- Hummus
- Infused chilli oil (peperoncini sott’olio)
- Irish strawberry jelly
- Italian pickled zucchini
- Italian veggies sott’olio (pickled veggies under oil)
- Kale, cauliflower & almond soup
- Kassoundi
- Kiwifruit and mint frappe
- Lamb kefta
- Larb
- Leek and parsley soup
- Leeks and gruyere
- Lemon curd and other citrus curds
- Lemon mousse
- Lemon sponge
- Lemon syrup cake
- Lettuce salad with bacon dressing
- Lilly pilly cordial
- Low fat persimmon muffins
- Mandarin and grapefruit cake
- Marinated mushroom salad
- Meringue eggs
- Middle Eastern inspired pickled vegetables
- Midyim berry and apple pastry slice
- Mint and lime pesto
- Mint jelly
- Mulberry and apple jam
- Mushroom and parsley soup
- Mushroom risotto
- Mushroom, brussels sprouts and cheese sauce
- Nasturtium cheese dip
- Nasturtium flower vinegar
- Nasturtium leaf salsa verde
- Nasturtium seed capers
- Nettle soup
- Oaty and Fruity Muesli Bar
- Oca saag aloo
- Ocean trout and frittata
- Okra with cashews
- Olive oil and lemon cake
- One two three ratatouille
- Onion jam/relish
- Orange poached salmon fillets
- Orange, carrot and ginger soup
- Pad thai
- Parsley and pecan pesto
- Pasta with ‘oasta’ sauce
- Peach and pecan muffins
- Peach and tomato gazpacho
- Peach, rocket and bush dukka salad
- Pepino sauce
- Persimmon and amaretto sorbet
- Persimmon Thai beef salad
- Pickled beans (or cucumbers)
- Pickled chillis
- Pickled tree onions
- Pikelets
- Pomegranate lamb kebabs
- Pomegranate syrup
- Potato and onion weed soup
- Potato peel broth
- Pumpkin and adzuki rissoles
- Pumpkin and silverbeet dahl
- Quesadilla
- Quick pickled zucchini
- Quince crumble
- Quince tarte tatin
- Quinoa and red lentil soup
- Red salad
- Red, green and white party dip
- Rhubarb cake
- Rhubarb muffins
- Ricotta stuffed zucchini
- Roasted brussels sprouts
- Roasted thyme and beetroot salad
- Root vegetable cake
- San choy bow
- Sauerkraut salad
- Sauerkraut soup
- Sauteed kohlrabi
- Sauteed zucchini in fresh tomato glaze
- Seafood pad thai
- Semi-dried tomatoes
- Silverbeet patties
- Silverbeet, potato and tomato bake
- Snow pea boats
- Snow pea salad
- Some simple grape recipes
- Sorrel tart
- Spiced chokos
- Spiced pears
- Spicy carrot dip
- Spicy Indian tomato chutney
- Spicy tomato sauce
- Spinach in cream sauce with cheese gratin
- Steamed taro cake
- Stir fried bok choy
- Strawberry granita
- Stuffed cabbage or silverbeet leaves
- Sweetcorn and zucchini fritters
- Tagliatelle with artichoke sauce
- Tamarillo and pear muffins
- Tamarillo jam
- Taro curry
- Ten-minute (leeky) green beans
- Thai chicken ball green curry
- Thai coconut braised lamb curry
- Thai pumpkin soup
- Thai red curry fish cakes
- Thai vegan curry
- Tomato and lentil soup
- Tomato passata
- Tomato sauce
- Tuna and veggie bake
- Tuscan kale chips
- Vegetable and cheese stacks
- Vegetable pasties
- Vegetable stock concentrate
- Vietnamese mango salad with coconut vinegar dressing
- Walnut pesto
- Warrigal greens and ricotta gnocchi
- Warrigal greens pesto
- Warrigal greens, herb and cheese pizza
- Watercress soup
- Watermelon greek salad
- Watermelon skin pickle
- Winter pumpkin carbonara
- Witlof and lilly pilly salad
- Yacon and green bean salad
- Yacon syrup
- Yummy rhubarb
- Zucchini and cumin soup, with goats curd and chilli
- Zucchini and feta fritters
- Zucchini and tomato slice
- Zucchini fritters
- Zucchini muffins
- Zucchini pickles
- Zucchini ricotta cheese bake
- Zucchini salad
- Zucchini slice
- Zucchini, carrot and hazelnut cake