Recipes | My Emerald Kitchen

Chicory & ham pie
Gluten-free & dairy-free buckwheat cocoa pancakes
Celeriac soup with crispy pancetta and roasted garlic chips
Fennel & fish (hake) sweet potato gratin
Book tip February 2019: Crumb by Richard Bertinet
Pépé Charles' Tomato soup with vermicelli and homemade meatballs
The ultimate Surf & Turf barbecue platter
Anzac biscuits (oat biscuits)
Dates, dark chocolate & walnut pastries
Triple Flavoured Goat Cheese Appetiser Balls and Logs
Black pudding, apple and cranberry sausage rolls
Fuss-free quick & easy Christmas Black Forest Brownie Trifle
Roasted pecan salad with Medjool dates, prosciutto and a blue cheese dressing
Marinated & Braised pulled lamb tacos with pickled red onion and a tomato - chilli sauce
Pumpkin risotto with goats cheese, chestnut mushrooms and watercress
Basic Chocolate Truffles with cocoa powder, hundreds and thousands and chocolate sprinkles
Rosewater Meringue Drops
Pink Ribbon Vanilla Cookies (for my Pink Ribbon bake sale)
Braised Beef in red wine with butternut squash puree, chestnut mushrooms and cranberries
Honey, Rosemary & Parsley Roasted Parsnip Chips/Fries
Baileys Tiramisu served in cocktail glasses
Baileys Tiramisu
Garlic Crostini with Spiced Lamb and Avocado, Grilled Vine Tomato and Mozzarella
Rib eye steak spinach salad with green herb sauce, colourful tomatoes, mango, red onion, chilli, radish and grilled corn on the cob
Vanilla Butter Cookies - ideal for baking with kids
Eclairs with vanilla custard and chocolate sauce
Plain pork sausage rolls
Flavourful lamb meatballs with tomato rice, chickpeas, peas, feta and mint
The best ever potato & apple salad
Portuguese Custard Tarts

I cannot believe that I haven't featured this book yet as my book tip of the month, but better late than never I suppose! 'Mastering the art of French cooking' is actually one of the reasons I started my blog years ago, as it was the grounds for the movie 'Julie & Julia', in which Julie Powell vows to prepare all 524 recipes in Julia Childs' landmark cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." If you've never seen the movie you probably also have no idea who Julia Child is, or why her book is so special to a lot of people. Now first it's important to say that Julia wasn't the only author of this book as it was written up by 3 women: Julia, Simone Beck & Louisette Bertholle. What made the book so special is that it was the first French cookbook released in the US that used ingredients available in the US and that adapted some of the traditional French recipes to suit the American palate and cooking techniques. The book then became such a huge hit that they released a second volume, his time without Louisette Bertholle. At the same time Julia Child got her [...]