Rosemary and Garlic Focaccia

Recipe Prep time 15 minutes, plus 2 hours to rest/prove, cooking time 30 minutes Ingredients 425 g Plain flour 260 ml Water 90 ml Olive oil, plus extra for greasing the baking tin 3 – 4 sprigs fresh Rosemary, or about 15 g dried Rosemary 2 – 3 cloves of Garlic 10 g Cooking SaltContinue reading “Rosemary and Garlic Focaccia”

Nut-Free Maple Granola

A colourful Granola mixture with rolled oats, puffed rice, dates, sultanas, apples, cranberries, glace cherries & stem ginger, spiced with cinnamon and sweetened with Canadian maple syrup and Vegan dark chocolate chips. Ingredients 1000g Rolled Oats 700g Corn Flakes 450g Puffed rice 250ml Extra Virgin Olive oil 250ml Maple syrup 250g Sultanas 200g Uncrystallised Ginger,Continue reading “Nut-Free Maple Granola”

Slow Braised Corned Beef with Cranberries

This is one of those great “slow food” recipes that can be done in either a slow cooker, in the oven, a bbq or as I did in a wood-burning pizza oven. The time taken allows the otherwise tough meat to render off the fat, soften the tissue, and absorb all the flavours from the spices and vegetables added.