This year some beautiful organic kumquats sent me looking for inspiration, and I chose Indian flavours for a kumquat cumin pickle.

In Jewish kitchens all over the world challah bread (sometimes spelled chollah) is the traditional braided loaf made for the weekly celebration of the Sabbath on Friday evenings.

Welcome to perfect steamed rice! Steaming is my preferred method for cooking rice in my Thermomix because it gives consistently excellent results.

Homemade sauerkraut is a fabulously healthy and tasty condiment. It’s also an excellent (and inexpensive) source of live probiotics.

I have made this delicious Boston baked beans recipe for many years, and even more often since I discovered that doing all the ‘prep’ in my Thermomix makes it really easy.

Homemade tasty tomato soup is much nicer than any commercially produced tomato soup, and of course when you make it yourself, you know what is in it.

Some years ago when running our business from home, risotto cakes arancini became a very popular lunch choice, courtesy of my son Greg.

This lemon sesame dressing is a favourite of mine. It makes a quick chopped salad special or can be used to dress a leafy green salad or even a fruit salad.

Have you ever tasted coconut butter? It’s a slightly gritty ‘butter’ or paste in the same sense that peanut butter and almond butter are ‘butters’.