April Seasonal Eating
Fruit: Southern Hemisphere • Vegetables: Southern Hemisphere • Fruit: Northern Hemisphere • Vegetables: Northern Hemisphere
Fruit: Southern Hemisphere
Dinner: Sarah Hobbs’ Roast Chicken with Apple Stuffing • Dessert: Emma Lewis’ Sticky Toffee Apple Pudding • Something Extra: Tracy Rutherford’s Golden Syrup Apple Doughnuts | Breakfast: Sarah Hobbs’ The New Avo Toast • Salad: Maria Elia’s Avocado Salad • Light: Love and Lemon’s Avocado Vegetable Summer Rolls | Breakfast: Meg Yonson’s Chunky-Monkey Banana Bread Granola • Decedent: Nigel Slater’s Chocolate Muscovado Banana CakeChocolate Muscovado Banana Cake • Something different: Petrina Verma Sarkar’s Gulgulas (Indian Banana Fritters) |
Dessert: Somewhere over the Kitchen’s Chestnut Mousse Cake with Sour CherriesChestnut Mousse Cake with Sour Cherries • Main: Jane Hornby’s Italian Sausage and Chestnut Pasta • Starter: Wholesome Cook’s Chestnut and Mushroom Soup | Canning: Justin North’s Spiced Cumquat Chutney • Dessert: Linda Peek’s Cumquat and Almond Cake • Something different: James Grant and Alex Elliott-Howery’s Pickled Cumquats | Savoury: Custard Apples Australia’s Thai Red Curry of Chicken and custard Apple • Something cold: End of the Fork’s Custard Apple Sorbet • Something warm: Woolworths’ Baked Custard Apple CrumbleBaked Custard Apple Crumble |
To pair with cheese: Food to Love’s Feijoa Paste • Comfort: The Kiwi Country Girl’s Feijoa Crumble Slice • Something different: Amanda Laird’s Feijoa Strudel | Main: Warren Mendes’ Smoked Chicken and Fig Salad • Dessert: Katie Quinn Davies’ Sticky Fig and Pecan Pudding with Toffee Sauce • Baking: Turntable Kitchen’s Fig, Mint and Honey Galette | Starter: Food Daydreaming’s Prawn-Stuffed Avocados with Finger Limes • Seafood: Delicious’ Oyster, Finger Lime and Ginger • Dessert: Delicious Everyday’s Mojito Cheesecake Parfaits with Finger Lime Caviar |
Breakfast: Not enough Cinnamon’s Baked Grapefruit with Maple Syrup And Cinnamon • Side: No Recipe’s Grapefruit Guacamole • Dressing: La Domestique’s Winter Grapefruit Salad with Citrus-Ginger Vinaigrette | Appetiser: Zach Desart’s Spicy Grape-Ricotta Crostini • Something different: Cara’s Cravings’ Salmon with Red Grape Agrodolce • Snack: Michel Richard’s Chocolate Grapes | Drinks: Mama Latina Tips’ Guava Agua Fresca • Something different: Petrina Verma Sarkar’s Indian Guava Cheese • Dessert: Ruth Cousineau’s Guava and Cream Cheese Pastry |
Breakfast on the Go: Michelle Southan’s Kiwifruit, Lime and Coconut Muffins • Something Different: The Healthy Foodie’s Kiwi Avocado Salsa 0ver Rare Tuna Steak • Frozen Treat: Food with Feeling’s Kiwi Watermelon Fruit Popsicles | Savoury: Recipe Tin Eats’ Lemon Chicken Salad • Something different: Miranda Payn’s Gnocchi with Burnt Butter, Lemon and Basil • Dessert: Pretty Simple Sweet’s Lemon Tart | Flavour enhancer: Delicious’ Chilli Lime Salt • Side: Martha Stewart’s Chili-Lime Roasted Butternut Salad • Dinner: BBC Good Food’s Lime and Coconut Dhal |
Classic: Rainbow Nourishment’s Upside-Down Mandarin Orange Cake • Comfort: O Tama Carey’s Warm Mandarin Pudding • Something Different: Sarah Hobbs’ Dark Choc Whole Mandarin Cake | Traditional: Adam Liaw’s Honey-Poached Nashi Pears with Cinnamon Chantilly • Comfort: Ian Parmenter’s Nashi and Macadamia Crumble • Something different: Sarah Hobbs’ Nashi Chicken Waldorf Bruschetta | Savoury: Taste of Home’s Roasted Citrus and Herb Turkey • Sweet: Taste.com.au’s Little Orange Polenta Cakes • Drinks: Barbara Rolek’s Orange Mint Tea |
Light: Good Food’s Passionfruit Mousse • Decadent: Donna Hay’s Passionfruit Tart • Something different: Lisa Featherby’s Passiona Granita Jellies | Savoury: Olive’s Griddled Pear, Rocket and Prosciutto Salad • Sweet: Sally’s Baking Addiction’s Maple Vanilla Baked Pears • Classic: Season and Suppers’ Italian Pear Almond Cake | Savoury: Taste of Home’s Pecan-Coconut Crusted Tilapia • Sweet: Casey Elsass’ 3-Ingredient Maple-Pecan Fudge • Something different: Chocolate with Grace’s Chocolate Turtle Cookies |
Breakfast: Monica Pinto’s Spiced Persimmon Jam • Baking: Natasha’s Kitchen’s Persimmon Bread • Savoury: Preppy Kitchen’s Persimmon Salad | Savoury: Sweet and Savoury Pursuit’s Pistachio Crusted Salmon • Sweet: Christine Manfield’s Cardamom Pistachio Cookies • Something different: Shelly Westerhausen’s Leek and Potato Galette with Pistachio Crust | Drinks: Natalie Oliva’s Pomegranate White Tea Fizz • Dessert: Family Style Food’s Pomegranate Panna Cotta • Dressing: Simply Recipes’ Homemade Pomegranate Molasses |
To pair with cheese: Elise Bauer’s Membrillo (Quince Paste) •Traditional: David Lebovitz’s Rosy Poached Quince • Something different: Valli Little’s Quincemisu | Drinks: Diana Andrews’ Rambutan Mojito • Dinner: Jake Cohen’s Summer Rambutan Curry • Dessert: Delicious’ Mango and Rambutan Crumbles with Cardamom Ice Cream | Savoury: Olia Hercules’ Pan-Fried Mackerel Sandwich with Rhubarb Coleslaw • Sweet: The Seaside Baker’s Quick Rhubarb Cake • Treat: Maggie Beer’s Rhubarb Crumble |
Dinner: NZ Woman’s Weekly’s Sesame Pork with Tamarillo and Ginger Chutney • Dessert: Jess Sly’s Poached Tamarillos in Honey and Vanilla Syrup • Something Different: Delicious’ Baked Ricotta with Poached Tamarillos | Savoury: Mary Cadogan’s Grilled Aubergines with Spicy Chickpeas and Walnut Sauce • Sweet: Taste of Home’s Walnut Toffee Tart • Slice: Anneka Manning’s Classic Walnut Brownies |
Vegetables: Southern Hemisphere
Fruit: Northern Hemisphere
Dinner: Sarah Hobbs’ Roast Chicken with Apple Stuffing • Dessert: Emma Lewis’ Sticky Toffee Apple Pudding • Something Extra: Tracy Rutherford’s Golden Syrup Apple Doughnuts | Breakfast: Sarah Hobbs’ The New Avo Toast • Salad: Maria Elia’s Avocado Salad • Light: Love and Lemon’s Avocado Vegetable Summer Rolls | Breakfast: Meg Yonson’s Chunky-Monkey Banana Bread Granola • Decedent: Nigel Slater’s Chocolate Muscovado Banana CakeChocolate Muscovado Banana Cake • Something different: Petrina Verma Sarkar’s Gulgulas (Indian Banana Fritters) |
Savoury: Alice Storey and Emma Knowles’ Roast Duck with Cherries and Roast Kipfler Potatoes Classic: Hristina Minic’s Sour Cherry Strudel Dessert: Kerri Worner’s Cherry Custard Tart | Canning: Justin North’s Spiced Cumquat Chutney • Dessert: Linda Peek’s Cumquat and Almond Cake • Something different: James Grant and Alex Elliott-Howery’s Pickled Cumquats | Breakfast: Not enough Cinnamon’s Baked Grapefruit with Maple Syrup And Cinnamon Side: No Recipe’s Grapefruit Guacamole Dressing: La Domestique’s Winter Grapefruit Salad with Citrus-Ginger Vinaigrette |
Drinks: Mama Latina Tips’ Guava Agua Fresca • Something different: Petrina Verma Sarkar’s Indian Guava Cheese • Dessert: Ruth Cousineau’s Guava and Cream Cheese Pastry | Breakfast on the Go: Michelle Southan’s Kiwifruit, Lime and Coconut Muffins • Something Different: The Healthy Foodie’s Kiwi Avocado Salsa 0ver Rare Tuna Steak • Frozen Treat: Food with Feeling’s Kiwi Watermelon Fruit Popsicles | Savoury: Recipe Tin Eats’ Lemon Chicken Salad • Something different: Miranda Payn’s Gnocchi with Burnt Butter, Lemon and Basil • Dessert: Pretty Simple Sweet’s Lemon Tart |
Flavour enhancer: Delicious’ Chilli Lime Salt • Side: Martha Stewart’s Chili-Lime Roasted Butternut Salad • Dinner: BBC Good Food’s Lime and Coconut Dhal | Classic: Rainbow Nourishment’s Upside-Down Mandarin Orange Cake • Comfort: O Tama Carey’s Warm Mandarin Pudding • Something Different: Sarah Hobbs’ Dark Choc Whole Mandarin Cake | Savoury: Taste of Home’s Roasted Citrus and Herb Turkey • Sweet: Taste.com.au’s Little Orange Polenta Cakes • Drinks: Barbara Rolek’s Orange Mint Tea |
Savoury: Olive’s Griddled Pear, Rocket and Prosciutto Salad • Sweet: Sally’s Baking Addiction’s Maple Vanilla Baked Pears • Classic: Season and Suppers’ Italian Pear Almond Cake | Retro: Peter’s Food Adventures’ Pineapple Fried Rice Easy entertaining: Lena Abraham’s Hawaiian Chicken Skewers Cocktail: Colleen Graham’s Bahama Mama | Veggie salad: Alex Lau’s Pomelo Salad with Chile, Lime, Peanuts, and Coconut Seafood salad: Neil Perry's Asian Prawn and Pomelo Salad Drinks: Kelly Crambula’s Pomelo and Basil Cocktail |
Savoury: Olia Hercules’ Pan-Fried Mackerel Sandwich with Rhubarb Coleslaw • Sweet: The Seaside Baker’s Quick Rhubarb Cake • Treat: Maggie Beer’s Rhubarb Crumble | Dessert: Gourmet Travellers’ No-Bake Strawberry Crème Fraîche Cheesecake Something for summer: David Lebovitz’s Roasted Strawberry-Miso Ice Cream |
Vegetables: Northern Hemisphere