Cookbook: What’s Cookin’ Shellharbour

WHAT’S COOKIN’ SHELLHARBOUR? Generations of family secrets have been revealed in a new Shellharbour City Council cookbook featuring over one hundred of the area’s favourite recipes. The new book, What’s Cookin’ Shellharbour?,  features a diverse range of tried and true family favourite recipes allowing interested community members to learn a whole new series of easy…

New Products: Leggo’s Tuscanan Meatballs

I was reading through the Woolworths brochure and spied these Italian Style Meatballs with free sample of Leggo’s Tuscan Meatballs simmer sauce. I used to buy my meatballs from a butchers in Shellharbour Square but I decided to give these a try. Very nice! The meatballs were fairly lean and the flavours in the simmer sauce were…

A to Z of Vegetables – A – Artichoke

[ A globe artichoke. Photograph by Vanessa Pike-Russell]It’s a very fiddly vegetable but the thin layer of tender flesh on each leaf is a delicacy. I prefer the artichoke hearts marinated in oil when you’re in a rush. They are great as part of a Mediterranean salad, on pizza or added to a mezze platter. [Photograph…