• Print Recipe Sweet chilli crayfish and fresh nectarine salads Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 20 mins Ingredients 4 West Coast crayfish tails, cooked and peeled, shells kept aside for garnish 80ml sweet chilli sauce 2 fresh nectarines 250ml fresh salad leaves 15ml black sesame seeds, toasted Instructions 1 Roughly chop the peeled crayfish tails and combine

    The word gravadlax comes from “grav” meaning grave and “lax”, which is salmon. The fish was originally salted, fermented and buried in sand. Today, of course, it tastes and looks much better than it did during the Middle Ages. The freshest salmon must be used for gravadlax and I prefer to use Loch Duart salmon from Scotland. Although not from Scandinavia, it is probably some of the best farmed salmon on the market. I have used one whole side of salmon but you can use a smaller piece and adjust your recipe accordingly. The cure mixture will depend on your…

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    Print Recipe White hot chocolate Serves: 3 Instructions 1 Melt 180ml (¾ cup) white chocolate chips in a saucepan with 875ml (3½ cups) full-cream milk. Whisk together. When warm and melted, remove from heat and add 120ml vanilla vodka. Pour into glasses and top with marshmallows or grated chocolate.
    Print Recipe Mocha affogato By Food and Home Entertaining – Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 10 mins Ingredients 500ml (2 cups) chocolate ice cream 4 shots espresso 200ml whipped cream Instructions 1 Scoop the ice cream into serving glasses. 2 Pour over the hot espresso. 3 Top with whipped cream and serve