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Dining Downunder Australian Cooking Show Celebrity Chefs Vic Cherikoff Benjamin Christie -
Wattleseed Pear Tart with Wattleseed Custard
Wattleseed tart

4 pears, peeled and halved lengthways
juicy lemon, sliced into 6
50g sugar
1 heaped tbsp ground Wattleseed”>Wattleseed
500g puff pastry
5 egg yolks
80g chocolate (40 per cent to 75 per cent cocoa butter), melted
30g roasted, skinless hazelnuts, roughly chopped
250ml cream
2 tbsp butter, melted

Author: Masterchef Peter Gordon Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Friday October 16, 2009 Modern, 45 mins plus,
Contemporary, Vegetarian, Dessert

Peter Gordon is a hard-working chef originally from New Zealand (where he now runs Dine in the Auckland Sky City tower), who trained in Australia. He also runs a successful restaurant in London (The Providore) and provides input into in-flight menus on-board Air New Zealand’s First and Business Class meals.

Peter accents the chocolate and hazelnut characteristics of Wattleseed in his dessert and having only a small amount of chocolate in the pear hollow means that it won’t over-whelm the Wattleseed. Clever.

Method
Preheat oven to 220C. Remove seeds from pears using a melon baller or teaspoon and place pears in a pot with the Wattleseed, sliced lemon and sugar. Cover with just enough water to immerse the pears. Cover with circle of baking parchment and bring to a boil. Turn to a rapid simmer until the pears are cooked (20 minutes). To test them poke a skewer into one – it should go through easily then leave to cool.

While the pears are cooking, roll the pastry into a rectangle wide and long enough for eight pear halves and some space around them. Beat one egg yolk and brush on the pastry, then place in the fridge until the pears are ready.

Once cool, take pears out of the syrup, draining any syrup from them, then lay them cut-side up on a tray. Mix the melted chocolate with the hazelnuts and fill pear cavities with the chocolate mixture. Place in the fridge for 20 minutes.

Strain the syrup then reduce it to 150ml. Add the cream and bring to a simmer. Whisk the
remaining egg yolks then pour on the hot cream, whisking continuously, then return to the pan and cook out to a custard.
The lemon in the syrup will thicken the cream quite quickly and it may look like it’s going to split but it won’t. Once it’s cooked, pass through a sieve into a clean bowl and sit a cartouche on top to prevent a skin forming.

Take the pears and the pastry from the fridge and sit the pears evenly over the pastry, four-by-two, cut-side facing down. Cut around the pears leaving a 1.5cm border. Fold the borders in towards the pears to form a ridge then place on a baking tray lined with parchment.

Brush the pears and the pastry with the melted butter then bake in the top half of the oven until the pastry is golden (20-25
minutes).

To serve: Place a warm tart on your plates and spoon the Wattleseed custard around it.


Update from Down Under

Lots of food has gone through the kitchen since the last blog on this site and we’ll be more regularly adding information on Australian food and cooking as it happens Down Under.

For an update or to keep in touch with developments in the worlds of authentic Australian food, subscribe to the RSS feeds at Vic’s site, Benjamin’s site or the Kakadu Juice website.

In brief, Australian wild food is now more available in the USA with the Vic Cherikoff Down Under range of sauces and splashes in Whole Foods Markets nationally as well as in Andronico’s, Lunardi’s, Wegman’s and Atkin’s chain supermarkets.

We also ship orders from our on-line store and product goes all over the world. The only limitations we have are Paperbark into the USA (although we can ship Paperbark smoke oil) and any orders into Italy (the customs officials are so corrupt we won’t send parcels there after having lost previous shipments for no apparent reason). Luckily, we have supplied chefs and cooks from Alaska to Kazakhstan.

While you’re browsing through our store, please checkout our Xmas hampers which we offer year-round as gifts for any occasion. Some companies even offer them as rewards for achieving sales targets, safety goals or other performance markers.

Anyway. Authentic Australian food is thriving. More people are getting creative with the wild flavors of Australia and chefs are putting their own spin on Australian cuisine. We hope that this site is a good introduction to Australian food if you are visiting for the first time and that you explore our other sites above.


Australia Day 2007

Each year on 26th January, Australian’s come together to celebrate Australia.

We celebrate what’s great about Australia and being Australian. It is a day to reflect of what we have achieved and what we can be proud of, and to re-commit to making Australia an even better place for the future. This is the biggest day of celebration in the country and is observed as a public holiday in all states and territories.

With formal ceremonies, dinners, flag raising events, citizenship ceremonies, community awards – the celebrations are not only observed within Australia, but all around the world.

What are you doing this Australia Day?

Are you looking for new ideas on how you can celebrate Australia Day with your friends and family? We have many unique Australian recipes for you to try for your Australia Day celebrations that we know you will love, whether you are planning a BBQ, breakfast, lunch or sit down dinner.

We also have three Native Australian Hampers available from our online store, that have been designed to make it easy to explore the majority of our uniquely Australian flavours.

See more recipe ideas from Vic Cherikoff and Benjamin Christie.

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