Meatloaf is a great winter meal to serve with mashed potato. It backs up well cold, and sometimes Rosemary would put it in sandwiches for us the next day. It’s one of the first recipes she taught me to cook. The very first lesson she gave me was how to make a piping hot cup…
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Simple Chicken Curry
This is the most basic of chicken curry recipes, which means you can’t go wrong. Bush cooks didn’t have a huge stock of herbs and spices at their disposal, so they had to make do with basics. Clive of India curry powder was a favourite. In those days, there weren’t a lot of curry pastes…
The Ultimate Chilli Con Carne
Every time I think of Rosemary’s chilli con carne, my mouth waters. She used to like to serve it with rice or mashed potato, and corn on the cob. But over the years, I’ve used this recipe for tacos, and nacho’s, and have even served it just with crusty bread and a garden salad. If…
Casserole Yum Yum
This lamb casserole was one Rosemary’s core winter recipes. It’s been made by many of our family and friends over the years and never fails to get a thumbs up. Somewhere along the track it was dubbed Casserole Yum Yum, which seemed to stick. As I copy it from the torn and food stained orange…
The Flying Vicomtesse 