recipes
Spring Laksa w/ Chickpeas & Thai Basil
This is a super-speedy recipe that is easy to adapt to include whichever seasonal ingredients are growing in your garden.
Honey Glazed Apricots w/ Tahini Oat Crunch
This is a recipe that can be endlessly adapted to whatever ingredients are in season. In summer, as well as apricots, try peaches, nectarines, raspberries or plums.
Tomato Carpaccio w/ Toasted Pistachios
If you grow your own tomatoes - or if you know someone who does - this super simple recipe is the way to do them justice.
Mango & Avocado Soba Noodle Bowl
Perfectly ripe avocados and mangoes are the superheroes of this dish - noodley goodness, perfect for warm summer evenings.
Roasted Tomato & Pesto Tart
Cherry tomatoes, left on the vine, are something you should always have floating around your summer kitchen. Roast them until they blister and caramelise deliciously.
Butter Bean & Basil Panzanella
As you toss the panzanella, the bread absorbs all the oils and flavours from the roasted cherry tomatoes and field mushrooms, turning it soft, chewy and abominably delicious.
Fig & Pecorino Salad
A zingy, fresh salad to celebrate the jammy, sweet figs that appear, like sugared baubles every summer.
Five Cheese Fig Galette
Figs and cheese are very, very good. So it stands to reason that figs and five different kinds of cheese, set atop flaky puff pastry and roasted in a hot oven will be even better.
Honeyed Parsnips w/ Hazelnuts & Pecorino
Honey-roasted parsnips, peppery rocket, onions so soft they break apart on your fork and crunchy hazelnuts. This is one of my favourite entrées.
Broad Bean Bruschetta w/ Mint & Peas
The perfect way to use (and relish!) your spring harvest of broad beans and fresh garden mint.
Basil Pesto w/ Smoky Pickled Onion
One of my favourite ever pesto recipes - jazzed up with a smoky pickled onion topping!
Wild Rice Salad w/ Shredded Silverbeet & Summer Vegetables
Wild rice is a nutty, chewy and absolutely delicious grain that is very much worth your time and attention. As is this tasty summer salad!
Creamy Summer Pasta
If you’ve got slowed roast tomatoes, grilled zucchinis and squash the culinary world is your oyster.
Rhubarb Jam Rice Pudding
I tried a version of this dish at a pop-up dinner about a year ago and loved it so much I had to recreate it myself.
Pickled Rhubarb Salad w/ Tomatoes, Zucchini & Basil
This salad is light, zingy and very summery. I’d serve it alongside some grilled haloumi or a piece of fish, with plenty of heavily buttered bread to mop up the dressing.
Italian Warm Bean Salad
This salad was really an exercise in ‘Casey doesn’t know what to cook so she’s going to chop and fry everything in the garden and see what works’. Fortunately everything worked, and it all worked especially well in combination! So I chucked it in a big bowl and here we have the Italian Warm Bean Salad!