Category: wine country cooking

Rote Grutze, Groats, Grits or Gruel

by chefmarkmc, posted in australian chefs, Barossa Wine, cooking classes, delicious recipes, dessert recipes, food and drink, food and wine, gourmet cooking classes, Seasonal Kitchen, sugar confections, wine country cooking

This Saturday marks one of the big days on our Barossa calendar, the Annual Tanunda show, held mid-vintage every year, a celebration of this valley that I am proud to call home, and one of the highlights is the hotly contended Rote Grutze championship. For the uninitiated Rote Grutze is a dish originally from Northern … Continue reading Rote Grutze, Groats, Grits or Gruel

Delicious Nightshades

by chefmarkmc, posted in australian chefs, Barossa Wine, chuntneys, cooking classes, delicious recipes, food and drink, food and wine, gourmet cooking classes, home preserving, indian cuisine, preserving, Seasonal Kitchen, Spicy recipes, wine country cooking

When summer brings a glut of ripe sweet tomatoes summer this quick and simple recipe for a delicious and authentic Bengali Tomato Chutney is the one to reach for, you wont be disappointed !

A Plague of Zucchini’s

by chefmarkmc, posted in australian chefs, cooking classes, delicious recipes, food and drink, food and wine, gourmet cooking classes, home preserving, Seasonal Kitchen, wine country cooking

Its hard to keep up with the fruit even a few Zucchini bushes this time of year, but what to do with the surplus? Here's a suggestion for something versatile for use throughout the year.

Why on earth would you want to eat a green fig?

by chefmarkmc, posted in australian chefs, cooking classes, delicious recipes, figs, food and drink, food and wine, home preserving, preserving, Seasonal Kitchen, sugar confections, wine country cooking

Throughout history, creative cooks have performed a kind of alchemy making the seemingly inedible into the delicious. Unripe, baby green figs are one such food, yet these sugary, rose scented confections are a delightful alternative for your cheeses boards when sweet ripe fresh figs are out of season.

Some Like it Hot!

by chefmarkmc, posted in australian chefs, chilli recipes, cooking classes, delicious recipes, food and wine, Seasonal Kitchen, Spicy recipes, wine country cooking

What makes a good recipe? for me its one that stands the test of time, and with a new spicy cooking class on the way it seems a good time to blog about one of my favourite recipes for chilli jam based on a one from the legendary Australia Chef Christine Manfield.