GLUTEN & DAIRY FREE COOKIE MIXES by Just Bake Cairns
Strawberry Gum and Cacao
Lemon Myrtle and Wattleseed
Aniseed Myrtle and Orange
You will need 1 pack of cookie mix, 1 egg, 1 tspn vanilla essence and half cup of oil (coconut, olive or macadamia).
Combine egg, vanilla and oil in a large mixing bowl, mixing until creamy. Add cookie mix and combine well. Roll into balls and place onto a lined baking tray. Gentle press down with fork.
Bake at 160C (fan forced) or 180C for approx 20 – 25 minutes. Cool. Enjoy!
Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana) is a small deciduous tree found growing wild extensively through out the subtropical woodlands of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It bears abundant crop of small plum-like fruits.
The fruit has a very high content of vitamin C, in fact holds the World Record. It’s full of antioxidants, folic acid and iron.
The greatest use of kakadu plum fruits is for gourmet jams, sauces, juices, ice-cream, cosmetics, flavours and pharmaceuticals.
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The Australian Sunrise Lime is a hybrid of the finger lime and a calamondin (cross between a mandarin and cumquat) created by the CSIRO.
They can be eaten whole like a cumquat or turned into jam, marmalade or preserved in alcohol. Absolutely delicious.
Like many native fruits, the Sunrise Lime is being freeze dried which enables it to be available year round.
Taste Australia Bush Food Shop have created Sunrise Seasoning which combines Sunrise Lime powder with Cumin, Coriander, Fennel, Southern Ocean Sea Salt, Mountain Pepper, Onion, Ginger, Mint and Ajwain. The result is salty with a hint of sweetness perfect when sprinkled to enhance the taste and flavour.
Hint: it goes particularly well with avocado or fresh vine ripened tomato.
A stark leafless tree during the dry season, brilliant green during the wet season, it is held in high regard by the Aborigines of the Kimberley Region who call it Larrkardiy.
There are 3000-odd boab trees that are dotted around the Kimberley region with one at Derby listed as 1500 years old. The trees have been providing shelter, food and medicine for our First Nations people for thousands of years.
Boab nut season runs from March to October and is a valuable source of medicinal ingredients. The high vitamin C and calcium content of young leaves and especially the seed-pod pith, makes it a valued commodity. The bark is also used to treat fever, as it contains properties similar to quinine.
Inside the hard case of a boab nut, there is a creamy-white fruit in which the seeds are nestled. This dry powdery fruit pulp, with its tangy citrus flavour, has six times more vitamin C than oranges, and twice as much calcium as milk. It is also rich in other vitamins (A, B1, B2, B6, and PP), minerals (phosphorus, iron, sodium, zinc, magnesium and potassium), dietary fibre (soluble and insoluble) and amino acids*.
Boab Powder, high in vitamins, iron, zinc, protein, potassium, calcium and dietary fibre, is 100% Western Australian boab.
Take two teaspoons of Boab Powder:
SPRINKLE… onto fruit, cereal, yoghurt & pancakes
BAKE… into bread, brownies, cakes & cookies
STIR… into porridge, desserts, soups, hot water & lemon
SHAKE… into water, fruit juice, coconut water & salad dressings
BLEND… into sauces, milkshakes, smoothies & ice creams
I first started experimenting with ingredients native to Australia in 1997 but it wasn’t until around 10 years later after a chance meeting with Mike and Gayle Quarmby , creators of Outback Pride, at the Adelaide Showgrounds that I recognised an opportunity to promote and market our unique foods. “All we need to do now is to get people to eat this stuff” Gayle told me. It was a lightbulb moment.
MY BUSH FOOD KITCHEN
Taste Australia Bush Food Shop started by stocking the products that Outback Pride had developed thus far. They included jams, sauces, cordials and seasoning mixes. It evolved into the largest range of dried ingredients I could source and with it came much experimentation in the kitchen. Today we have over 40 different ingredients plus a wide range of value added products.
As Co-Vid19 altered our lifestyles I decided to take advantage and document my culinary creations. It was tricky to remember to write them down because I incorporate native ingredients without thinking about it.
CLICK HERE FOR the first edition of MY Bush Food Kitchen- a free downloadable PDF
A low-lying shrub with broad, velvety leaves, now known as the Grewia savannicola is about to find its way to the Aussie table. The fruit generally has two seeds that are fused together side by side, covered in soft hairs, that hang down on a short stalk.
The bush, found across northern Australia and first discovered by Europeans near the Endeavour River in far north Queensland, has long been used by Indigenous people to treat dysentery and diarrhoea.
Drop a handful of fruit in 500ml water, boil for 10 minutes, strain and drink. A delicious brew.
We’ve blended the sweet citrusy eucalypt flavour of White Kunzea with Mountain Pepper from Tasmania’s rainforests and Sea Salt from the pristine waters off the island’s east coast
Particularly nice as a rub on boneless roast lamb or sprinkled over sweet ripe tomatoes and smashed avocado on toast.
White Kunzea is a lovely sweet (almost honey like) fragrant tiny leaf with hints of eucalypt and citrus, makes a great tea, and many uses as an infusion
Ingredients: Sea Salt, Mountain Pepper and White Kunzea
Like many lands, Australia is a multi-cultural society enjoying food from varying cultures but until recent times our very own naturally occurring foods have been overlooked. Although much of this continent looks barren and infertile, there is an abundance of food and this collection of seasonings aims to bring attention to some of the ingredients endemic to our Pacific Ocean home.
Bush Tomato Seasoning is perfect for pizzas, pasta, salsa, sauces, seafood, vegetables and casseroles. It can be used in many dishes where a dash of spicy tomato is required. It has the right amount of bush tomato to balance the bitterness of bush tomato. Ingredients: Australian Tomato, Sea Salt, Bush Tomato, Aniseed Myrtle, Mountain Pepper, Paprika and Garlic
Desert Fire Seasoning adds a bit of bite to any dish. Ingredients: Saltbush, Chilli, Sea Salt, Mountain Pepper, Lemon Aspen, Garlic and Ginger.
Desert Flakes Seasoning to be used as seasoning, in sauces and casseroles or as a sprinkle over bread, meat, vegetables or pasta dishes. Ingredients: Saltbush, Sea Salt, Bush Tomato, Wattleseed, Lemon Myrtle, Mountain Pepper, and garlic.
Swagmans Salt is used in breads, salsas, salad, tomato based dishes. Ingredients: Sea Salt, Native Basil, Sea Parsley, Native Thyme , Saltbush & Mountain Pepper.
Tropical Pepperberry Sea Salt Use it as a rub or to add a kick to any dish. Particularly nice sprinkled over sweet ripe tomatoes and smashed avocado. Ingredients: Sea salt, Mountain pepper and Lemon Aspen
Used both as an ornamental as well as a bush tucker plant the cool climate Mountain Pepper produce both a leaf and a berry. The leaf provides a mild pepper taste but the berry has an unexpected zing. Just when you think they are sweet their kick begins. To some it could be quite hot.
Pepperberries are more versatile than conventional peppercorn, able to be used in sweet and savoury dishes. The leaves, stems and berries have an aromatic peppery taste producing approx. 3 times the anti-oxidants of blueberries.
Pepperberry not only adds depth to a casserole or slow cooker, it imparts a beautiful rich burgundy colour to the dish.
Slow cooked Pepperberry Wagyu (perfect for Winter)
Ingredients
2 small red onions
1 carrot
1 stick of celery
1 red capsicum
2 cloves of garlic (crushed)
420gm cubed Wagyu Chuck Beef
1 Tablespoon Pepperberry – coarse ground of whole
2 Tablespoons Tomato Paste
1 cup of water
1 teaspoon Bush Tomato
Dice the vegetables and place in the slow cooker, add garlic, beef, Pepperberry, Tomato paste and water. Mix well to combine.
Slow cook for 7 hours.
10 minutes before serving add bush tomato seasoning and salt to taste. Serve with pasta, steamed beans and wild rocket salad.
