Australians favorite recipe
Posted by JohnF | Posted in Cooking | Posted on 08-03-2010
Tags: banana bread, gingerbread men, shepherds pie, zucchini slice
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IT’S 5pm and busy Australian mums and dads are searching online for inspiration on what to cook for dinner.
What are they looking up? How to roast a chicken, do a beef stir-fry or marinade pork cutlets?
No, they’re searching for zucchini slice.
Strange though it may seem, the dish is No. 1 on the recipe site taste.com.au, with almost 40,000 copies downloaded in the website’s three-year history.
Following zucchini slice, the nation’s next favourite recipes are banana bread, gingerbread men and classic shepherd’s pie.
Other recipes that make it into the Taste top 10 are equally old-fashioned favourites cupcakes, scones and Anzac biscuits.
Taste.com.au editor Syrie Wongkaew said the online popularity of items such as scones and Anzac biscuits reflected the continued enthusiasm among home cooks for food “like your grandma or mum used to make”.
“While Australians are willing to embrace new food trends, people tend to be a bit nostalgic and they want homemade food that tastes good and reminds them of their childhoods,” Ms Wongkaew said.
Another factor in the popularity of these recipes could be that most of them are missing from trendy or glossy cookbooks.
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