Swordfish to Field Mushrooms

Steve Manfredi has this page on the Sydney Morning Hearld website, there are some mouth watering recipes
Steve Manfredi: Hazelnuts

Roast hazelnuts for a few minutes and the intense flavour is released.

Steve Manfredi: Swordfish

The fish that is most simpatico with cheese is swordfish.

Steve Manfredi: Dates

From ancient Roman to modern Arabic, the date is truly versatile.

Steve Manfredi: Field mushrooms

Autumn brings a profusion of mushroom species into our markets. While the wild foraged pine mushrooms - the slippery jack and saffron milk cap - bring the humus and resin-scented woods to our tables, there is an increase in the cultivated species.
The ordinary cultivated mushroom (Agaricus bisporus), most often seen as small buttons and larger open caps, seems to react to the season by growing to full maturity. At this time of year, field and cultivated mushrooms are larger, meatier and tastier.

Short Crust Pastry

Ingredients
½ lb flour; salt
6ozs margarine/butter mixed with water
Method
Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl. Rub the shortening into it until it is like breadcrumbs. Pour th water into a well in the centre and stir the flour from the sides of the bowl with a knife. Keep mixing and adding more water, if necessary until the pastry is smooth but not moist enough to stick to the sides of the bowl. Turn on to a floured board and roll in required shape. An egg may be added to make a richer pastry.

Munthari Berry Upside Down Cake

Ingredients
250 g butter; 250 g caster sugar
4 eggs; teaspoon of vanilla essence
pinch of salt; 4 cups of self raising flour
1 cup of milk;½ cups of munthari berries quandongs
2 bananas; ironwood and maple syrup
glaced orange; glaced rye berries
2 tablespoons of lime juice
Method
Warm oven to 180 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time slowly and blend well (if you add your eggs too fast, you’ll get a clotted effect). Sift in the flour. Add pinch of salt and fold in. Add the vanilla and mix in. Crush 1 cup of the munthari berries and fold them through and transfer mixture to a lightly greased pan. Bake in pre heated oven for about 50 minutes.
TOPPING
Chop up glaced orange, quandongs, remaining munthari berries and the glaced rye berries and put in a saucepan. Mix ironwood and maple syrup through the chopped fruit. Squeeze in lime to take away a bit of sweetness. Everybody loves lime. Put on the heat It just needs to be warmed through...'cause we have a nice warm cake. Turn the munthari upside down cake out of tin and just lay some bananas over the top. Spoon the topping mix onto the bananas on the cake. The idea is just to...let those juices run through that butter cake - the sponge - which will soak it all up. The iron and maple wood syrup...will stick all of those yummy berries together. You can see the colours of the orange.