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Clockwise from above: Margaret and her first husband, Charles Sweeny, on their wedding day in 1933; with the Duke of Argyll and their family in 1951; Margaret was popular and charming. of the blue-blooded beautiful people love, but things meets someone who is different, set, Claire is not so sure. “Margaret started to go who makes her laugh and who is arm was new money; her dad had worked wrong very candy. He’s very handsome and the really hard and she had the best of quickly. Ian ‘un-gettable man’. He is the one you everything. But I don’t think she ever Campbell was a want to be able to change; married doubted in her life that she deserved damaged man, twice before and she wants to succeed everything; she was a social climber suffering PTSD where two other women have failed. in a way but she wasn’t hungry for it.” from his time as She falls in love with Inveraray Castle a prisoner of war and sees it as so romantic. She was One thing was obvious, though: in the Second World War. He hopelessly romantic and sees the Margaret loved to go out, adored the was addicted to alcohol, gambling castle as a dream. But the dream company of men and they adored her. and possibly drugs and outrageously goes terribly wrong.” Many of the male friends who were sponged from his wives’ family coffers cited as her lovers were most likely – Margaret was his third spouse – to “He toyed with me as a cat plays gay. Homosexuality was illegal and for fund the running of his ancestral seat, with a mouse,” Margaret confided to Margaret, these men made wonderful Inveraray Castle, moving on when Charles Castle, “and every time he escorts on nights out on the town. they realised what he was up to. He sensed that I had come to the end was also unfaithful and though he of my tether, he would then choose to By the age of 19 she already had could be charming, his behaviour become his most agreeable self, ready four engagements under her belt, was erratic and often cruel. Margaret including to the Prince Aly Khan. was very much his latest victim. She eventually married US socialite and businessman Charles Sweeny in “Ian is a Duke and that’s deeply 1933. They had two children but the attractive to her,” notes Claire. “In relationship ran out of puff, cordially this period of time, Margaret has met so, and she divorced in 1947. every type of person in her circle. She loved entertaining; actors, politicians Four years later she fell hard for and collected people. In Ian, she the Duke of Argyll. By all accounts, including her own, she really was in The Australian Women’s Weekly 51

Society scandal to do anything to please me. He was Above right: Claire a pioneer, and Claire thinks the GETTY IMAGES. SHUTTERSTOCK. such an attractive man, I was a mere Foy and Paul Bettany resurgence of interest in her story is pawn in his hands. Even my father, as the Duke and because it does have a new focus. “I who was such a clever man, was putty Duchess of Argyll. hope that this drama allows a woman in his hands.” Left: After the scandal, who was judged, ridiculed, belittled, Margaret was manipulated and taken advantage of “They are toxic from the beginning,” ostracised by family. by the legal system, to at least have explains Claire. “Margaret is very that shown. I think that the law high-octane and his life is very much and out, and forged letters to the Duke doesn’t particularly treat women very about alcohol and his addictions. She questioning the legitimacy of his well at all and this is just one example naively went into the relationship children from his first marriage as well of how the odds were not stacked in and didn’t want to find out anything as falsely accusing him of infidelity with her favour. She was an interesting else about him, but also vice versa. her own stepmother – he did admire woman and the more stories about her strength of character. “Something interesting women, the better.” “It’s fascinating in a way as I’ve in her nature drove her on without never been in a drama where both of fear to do precisely what she wanted, For Sarah, Margaret is a woman the people are so openly flawed. They no matter the consequence,” he writes. to be admired. “She was honourable. don’t try and lessen their snobbery, Even before the nature of the their naivety or any of those things. For Sarah Phelps, who wrote The photographs were made evident, They do love each other and it is, in Very British Scandal TV series, it is this Margaret was accused of having its own way, a love story. Ten years part of Margaret’s personality that is more than 80 lovers. She could after they divorced, Ian died. I would most fascinating to today’s audience. have defended herself; some were like to think there was some sort of single friends in extra-marital romantic unfinished relationship.” “It’s a story about a woman who affairs and others, if she’d been refused to be slut-shamed, who refused honest about them, would have When it all falls apart, the vitriol on to go quietly and refused to do as she been sent to prison for being gay. both sides is brutal but especially from was told,” she says. “She set fire to the But Margaret never betrayed her the Duke, who sets out to destroy his wife expectation of her class, gender and friends. That’s honour. She was in a very public way. While biographer her sex rather than go quietly. She put spoiled, troubled, complex, Charles Castle became increasingly the private lives of the wealthy, the demanding, infuriating, beautiful, aware of Margaret’s faults – she landed and the titled all over the front stylish, silly, generous, vain, bloody- definitely lied, for instance, in court pages, not the untouchable great and minded, very funny and brave. I love good but bare, forked animals. Judge her for all of it. She’s an icon.” AWW Wheatley’s three-hour-long indictment of Margaret’s character, her sexual A Very British Scandal streams on morals, destroyed her ... but I think Amazon Prime Video on April 22. she’s heroic.” The Duchess Who Dared by Charles Castle, Swift Press, is on sale now. In light of current #MeToo battles, it is tempting to see Margaret as 52 The Australian Women’s Weekly

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True crime Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan’s Happy, healthy, mature, middle-class bodies were never found, but their women rarely go missing for more murderer was. Mark Tedeschi, the than a few days, and they are hardly author of a new book on the case, ever among the ranks of those who are never found. Dorothy Davis and unpicks the shocking details. Kerry Whelan were not hitchhikers, or associates of drug dealers, or unhappy with their lives, or suffering from mental health issues. In fact, they fell well outside any of the conventional categories of people at risk of permanently disappearing. Dorothy Davis was a 74-year-old widow who lived in a house in the quiet, upmarket, seaside suburb of Lurline Bay in south-eastern Sydney. She was financially comfortable and led a peaceful, predictable life centred around her children, grandchildren and many friends. Kerry Whelan was an active and healthy 39-year-old with an affluent, family-based lifestyle. She lived with her husband, Bernie Whelan, the CEO of the Australian arm of Crown Equipment, a large multinational company that made forklifts, and their three children on an expansive rural property at Kurrajong on the north-western outskirts of Sydney, where they ran horses and enjoyed country life. Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan came from different parts of Sydney, mixed in quite different circles and led completely different lives. They never met each other, and if they had, would have had little in common. In fact, Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan had only one thing in common – they both knew Bruce Allan Burrell. Dorothy Davis left her home on foot on Tuesday 30 May, 1995, a few days after an angry confrontation with Bruce Burrell about an outstanding loan of $100,000 that she had secretly made to assist him to buy a new house for himself and his wife, Dallas, whom Dorothy had known since Dallas’ childhood and whom she dearly loved. The loan was for an amount that Bruce was utterly unable to repay, as he had frittered it away on his general living expenses and the futile upkeep of his remote property, Hillydale, at Bungonia in the Southern Highlands of NSW. As Dorothy left her home she told a builder who was working on her house that she was going to walk to the home of a close female friend who lived in the area, and she gestured towards the ocean. This was the direction – a mere block away – of the Burrells’ townhouse. She told the builder that her female friend whom she was visiting had recently undergone chemotherapy for cancer, but that she was now recovered. Dorothy Davis’ only friend in that area who fitted that description was Bruce Burrell’s wife, Dallas. Dorothy left her home unlocked, with some meat The Australian Women’s Weekly 55

True crime defrosting on the draining board of Clockwise from above: Police enter Hillydale; how attached Bernie was to his the kitchen sink. She was in a good Burrell’s Lurline Bay townhouse; Burrell’s much younger wife, so it was frame of mind and had social property was remote and heavily wooded; reasonable to assume that he engagements in place over the mother-of-three Kerry. Opposite page, bottom: would be prepared to pay a following days. She clearly intended Mark and the prosecution team in 2006. large ransom for her return. returning later that day. came to him of a massive reallocation Kerry disappeared on Dorothy had no idea that she was of wealth by kidnapping one of Tuesday 6 May, 1997. She was venturing into any danger. After Bernie’s family members and last seen via a security video leaving her house on foot she demanding a significant ransom. camera exiting the carpark disappeared off the face of the earth. He mulled over various versions of of the Parkroyal Hotel in There was no subsequent contact by the idea, but eventually it morphed Parramatta and entering a her with any family members or into a plan to abduct Bernie’s wife, two-tone green, two door, friends, nor did she access any of her Kerry. He knew that Kerry did not four-wheel drive Pajero. She bank accounts or use any medical or work, so it was likely that she spent a had not told anybody about any government services. Her body has lot of time on her own at their rural meeting arranged for that day. never been found. The irresistible home at Kurrajong. Burrell also knew She and Bernie were planning inference is that she perished on that to go interstate for a brief day due to foul play. holiday together that afternoon. Twenty-four hours later a ransom Kerry Whelan’s husband, Bernie, had note demanding the equivalent of one befriended Bruce Burrell because of a million US dollars for her safe return common interest in cattle, shooting was received at their home. and rural life in general. In a step that By then, despite the warnings in the he was later to regret, in 1987 Bernie ransom note, police had already been offered Burrell a job as advertising informed of her disappearance. The manager at Crown Equipment. As an receipt of the note caused a massive employee at Crown and a friend of police investigation that quickly the CEO, Bruce was invited to the focussed on Bruce Burrell when it was Whelans’ home on several occasions. Within a short time it became apparent that Burrell’s performance at Crown Equipment was woefully inadequate. In 1990, when there was a recession-induced downturn in Crown’s business and some jobs were shed, Burrell was one of those who were retrenched, and it was Bernie Whelan who had the task of telling Bruce that he was forced to let him go. By early 1997 the money Bruce Burrell had received from Dorothy Davis two years earlier had been well and truly spent, and his financial situation had become even more precarious. Over the years since his retrenchment from Crown Equipment, Burrell had developed a bitterness and contempt for his former boss and friend, Bernie, that bordered on loathing. As his financial situation deteriorated, Burrell would often think back to the last time that he’d had a secure job at Crown Equipment and feelings of resentment would swell up inside him against his wealthy former boss and friend. It was at this time that the idea 56 The Australian Women’s Weekly

Following the widened to include both deaths. They also found a stolen Pajero of killer’s clues The disappearance of these two exactly the same kind as the one seen women two years apart and in vastly in the video taken as Kerry left the Over a three-week period, a police different circumstances resulted in Parkroyal hotel, and a Sydney street search of Bruce Burrell’s property quite different police investigations directory with the location of the turned up a stolen Pajero, like the and eventually in criminal jury trials. hotel heavily highlighted and the one Kerry was seen getting into, and address written in the margin. In May 1997, over a three-week two incriminating lists. period, a large contingent of police The police search resulted in a huge thoroughly searched Burrell’s remote media contingent camping for days realised that he had unexpectedly property, Hillydale, looking for any outside Hillydale and numerous dropped in on Kerry at Kurrajong trace of these two missing women, but Australia-wide media reports several weeks earlier, having none was found. The property and its identified Burrell as the main suspect ascertained that Bernie would be remote, heavily wooded environs were in the disappearance of Kerry Whelan. away interstate that day. littered with disused and dilapidated In an act of sheer desperation, Burrell mining shafts and ventilation holes. surreptitiously left his property, In fact, Kerry was not alone at home avoiding the large police and media that day, as her young son was sick However, police did find presence, and drove into Goulburn, and the family nanny/horse trainer, incriminating evidence at Burrell’s the nearest large town, where he Amanda, was helping out. Burrell homestead on the property, made an anonymous phone call from was intending to abduct Kerry from including two ‘dot-point’ notes – a public phone box to the receptionist her home that day, but a swift change one of which was an early, cryptic at Bernie’s workplace using a code that of plan was required to meet the plan of the kidnapping and the other only the kidnapper would have known, new circumstances. was an early, cryptic outline of the in a futile attempt to convince Bernie ransom note. to call off the search – as if he could. It was not until several days after the kidnapping that Amanda was able The intensive investigations of to identify the strange man who had these two disappearances did not visited Kerry weeks earlier, and Bruce result in the victims or their bodies Burrell became the prime suspect. being found, but it did result in a web It was at this stage that police were of evidence being unearthed that informed that Burrell had been a implicated Burrell in both matters. “person of interest” in the The police investigation of Kerry’s disappearance of Dorothy Davis two disappearance was one of the most years earlier, so the investigation was intricate and sophisticated in the history of policing in Australia. Kidnapping for ransom was almost unknown in this country. The initial investigation of Dorothy’s disappearance two years earlier was more limited, due to the paucity of evidence at the time, but once the two enquiries were linked police were able to elicit enough evidence to point conclusively at him. The evidence against Burrell in each case was circumstantial, and neither woman’s body had been found, requiring proof of death by other means, but despite this Burrell was eventually charged with both murders. After a complex series of legal manoeuvres, including a failed attempt by the Crown to have both matters heard together, The Australian Women’s Weekly 57

True crime Burrell faced jury trials in both matters on repayment. It was this tactic that Clockwise from left: The Whelan AAP. GETTY IMAGES. FAIRFAX PHOTOS. NEWSPIX. NSW POLICE. in the Supreme Court of NSW. I was Burrell tried on Dorothy Davis, but he family at the Bungonia state OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY MARK TEDESCHI. the Crown Prosecutor in each trial. underestimated her. She was not one forest; police search for Kerry and to be intimidated or dissuaded from Dorothy’s remains; criminal law Heinous narcissist getting her loan repaid. He saw her barrister Mark Tedeschi. demands for the return of the money Over the course of my career as a as unreasonable and realised that her In committing both criminal law barrister, in which I have threats to get a lawyer involved would murders, Bruce Burrell’s appeared on both the prosecution and shame him and reveal him as a fraudster sense of entitlement was so defence sides, I have been intrigued by in the eyes of his wife and her family. great that he was oblivious the minds of those offenders whose The fact that Dorothy was a much- to the extensive web of evidence that extreme narcissism made them blind loved mother, grandmother and friend he left along the way for the police to the risks they faced of detection was of no significance to him. to later find and for the prosecution and punishment, and how their focus to lead in evidence at his trials. on the desired goal rendered them Burrell’s kidnapping of Kerry The trials of Bruce Burrell in immune to the pain and suffering of Whelan was particularly heinous, as 2005-2007 for the murders of these their victims and victims’ families. he knew that he was taking away a two women were both complex and beloved wife and mother of three lengthy, requiring evidence to be Bruce Burrell had an overwhelming young children, and he must have called over many months. Burrell was belief that the universe owed him a known the anguish her disappearance convicted of both murders and was living and a deep sense of injustice and the ransom note would engender. sentenced to life imprisonment for that he was impoverished while others He never had any plan to release her, one and a rather superfluous 28 years around him lived in abundance. He had even if the ransom had been paid. She for the other. He died in custody no idea his pitiful situation was largely knew him, so he could never have in 2016, without having disclosed due to his own laziness, selfishness and allowed her to return home. His plan where he had hidden the bodies of unwillingness to work with others. was always that he would end her life his victims, despite approaches by the on the day of her abduction. He police to encourage him to do so. AWW At the same time, he could be very believed that he had a foolproof plan charming and personable if he wanted to entice her into his car at Parramatta, Missing: Presumed Dead by Mark something from someone. He had drive away, and at an opportune Tedeschi AM QC, Simon & Schuster, is an ability to initially impress and moment to convert a voluntary lift on sale from March 30. All of Mark’s connect with people, so he was easily into a forced abduction and murder. proceeds from the publication of this able to gain employment, however it book (and this article) have been and would soon become apparent that he was almost totally lacking in any will continue to be initiative, commitment, or work ethic. donated to Australian charities that assist This ability to impress and connect and support victims of led him to seek out vulnerable women crime, the families of whom he would ask for loans of deceased victims, and money. When he couldn’t repay the the relatives of those loans, his personable approach would who have gone missing. be replaced by intimidation, bullying and threatening behaviour, so that they would back away from insisting 58 The Australian Women’s Weekly



Growing up Questions to ask the teens in your life We asked Daisy Turnbull to share the questions that can act as a kind of door-opener, leading to good conversations and more meaningful connections.

The We should all be resting every day. nourish us; and spiritual rest, which In her book Sacred Rest, Dr Saundra we need to rest our souls. For some adolescent brain is a strange and that will involve prayer, for others wonderful thing. We tend to think a Dalton-Smith talks about the seven mindfulness, yoga or meditation. lot about the impact of what teens are types of rest people need. They do not and are not doing – risky behaviour, all involve sleep, although seven types As a parent, you’ll probably read not wanting to talk or hang out with of nap does sound ideal to me. The this and think, “Yeah, I know rest is their parents, and the dreaded ‘peer first type is physical rest: sleeping important.” But how did you know, pressure’ – instead of what is actually or napping when your body needs to. and how will your teen find out? Talk going on inside their noggins. A It may have been a while since you to them about it. Tell them how you good place to start might be asking told your teen to have a nap, and rest and ask them how they get the yourself: what do you want your they may have fought the concept of different types of rest they need. relationship with your kids to be like naps when they were younger, but when they are grown up? And how sometimes we do need physical rest. 2. What are your do you intend to get there? strengths? The second is mental breaks – these Teenagers are famous for are really important for teenagers I am not one to talk about the gifts of disconnecting from their parents. In (and adults), especially when they parenting, because I am very honest psychology this is called individuating are studying. Encourage them to about parenting being a constant and, much like bankruptcy, it happens break up study routines by going struggle, with some really fun bits very slowly and then all at once, as for a walk, staring at the wall (which thrown in. But if there was one ‘gift’ Ernest Hemingway wrote. Conceptually, will rest their eyes as well as their of parenting, it would be that you see it is something that you want to brain), playing a game or listening the worst of your kids – that is their happen – that is, you want your to music. Your brain needs five to gift to you. They love you and feel teenagers to become adults – but in 10 minutes to repair at least every safest with you. You are also uniquely practice, as parents, we often try to two hours. The same goes for long placed to see their strengths, and to stop it happening. car drives – rest every two hours. “Set up points During the teenage years, set up The third of connection points of connection that allow for kind of rest is that allow for a deep and authentic relationship sensory – away an authentic that will remain even when your kids from screens, relationship are adults. This does not mean you sounds, lights, that remains need an overwhelming number of pings and the conversation threads going with dopamine hit as adults.” your teen, like some supercharged of our phones WhatsApp group. Instead, think of reminding us identify what those strengths are and whatever question you ask as a path we are loved how your teen can use them. to conversations and experiences and connected. that connect your child back to you. These breaks As parents we love our teens, but do not need that doesn’t mean we always like 1. What do to be long or them. This is where strengths can you do to rest? righteous (a seven-day digital detox is be really helpful, both for you and my idea of hell), but they do need to for them. Professor Lea Waters has Self-care. Face masks (the relaxing be intentional. Deciding to read a book researched and written about the kind, not the hygienic kind). Bubble or draw rather than look at a screen is benefits of strength-based parenting, baths. Books. Doctors will tell you an important break that our brains need. where you lean on your teen’s that rest is essential for mental and strengths to fill the gaps between physical health. But in our increasingly Emotional rest is one of the most them (their weaker points, whether it busy lives, rest is not prioritised. important – it means taking a break be organisation or patience), rather Busyness has become a marker of from pleasing people. This doesn’t mean than focusing on the gaps themselves. status and success, and while ‘self- being rude to people, but actually And sometimes those gaps can be care’ is a new buzzword, getting stopping to think about what you want blinding, so it requires a conscious your nails done isn’t going to cut it. to do, how you feel and what you need. decision and practice to do this. That doesn’t mean you’ll get it, of course, but knowing it is the first step. There’s also creative rest, which could be taking a break when you feel blocked creatively; social rest, which describes time with the people who The Australian Women’s Weekly 61

Growing up To know your teen’s strengths disappointment, resist the urge to “Let your teen GETTY IMAGES. AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH SUPPLIED AND USED WITH PERMISSION. requires you to consider their whole step in and shield your teen from it. see you be person – what their natural talents and abilities are, as well as who they The most important part of dealing disappointed. are and how they act in different with disappointment is sitting with it. It’s an situations. Being argumentative Don’t try to brush it away, or distract probably means they are able to think your teen from it with something experience we critically, but as parents we tend to new and shiny, or remind them of grow through.” get caught up in the argument rather everything they have to be grateful than respecting the thought process for (not yet). The ability to sit with an your teen to be a good friend to others. behind it. uncomfortable emotion is a skill that You should be doing two things. The a lot of adults could do with. I could first is asking what they look for in a So spend time thinking about your do with it. friend and how they are there for their teen’s strengths – perhaps they’re a friends. The second is finding out who great friend, so why can’t they use It is an uncomfortable fact that they go to. Be genuinely interested, those relationship strengths to be you can’t actually get out of a painful because these people are going to be nicer to their brother? Or maybe emotion without processing it. Like in your teen’s life for a while. Ask for they’re really organised for sport, so going on a bear hunt, you have to go names, and look and laugh at photos. why can’t they organise their wardrobe through it. Remember, disappointment Be as included as your teen wants you so items can actually be found? Or is an experience we all encounter at to be and appreciate they are sharing if they are persistent about English some point – many points – but it is their new connections with you. homework, how can they use that for one we grow through as well. science? Look at the strengths they This conversation around who your have in some areas, and see if they Let your teen see you be disappointed teen hangs out with will then lead to can be transferred to other areas. sometimes. Explain that this is a some further conversations around day when you will not be going at a what makes a healthy friendship and The key benefit of strength-based million miles an hour, your usual what makes an unhealthy one. Do not parenting is that a teenager who services will not be provided tonight back away from these conversations, knows their strengths, and is reminded (dinner or homework assistance), that but rather see them as an opportunity of them, will have stronger self-worth, you need tea delivered to you, and to expand your teen’s social skills. and be more optimistic and resilient. that you will be fine in the morning. So although you get to see the worst Model a healthy relationship with We can be so focused on keeping of your kids, remember: they will only uncomfortable emotions. relationships that may not be good see the best in themselves if you do. for us, or may not be good for us 4. What makes a forever. Friendships can end or fade 3. How do you handle good friend? disappointment? Everyone wants their teen to have It’s important for children to learn friends, but it would be naive to how to handle disappointment. Being suggest that the concept of friendships disappointed about something, be it does not cause parents stress. We big or small, is an experience you want worry that our teens will choose your teen to have when they are still the ‘wrong’ friends, or won’t have at home around loving parents. ‘enough’ friends, or will have ‘too many’ friends, or will ‘only care’ about You also want your teen to be able their friends. You might have visions to recognise that the disappointment of your teen staying friends with the they may be feeling isn’t always ‘worthy’ children of the parents you met when of disappointment. This helps them they were a baby, but that’s just not gain perspective. For example, if your how these things work. So let’s look teenager’s biggest disappointment in at what you can actually do to be life was not getting the latest iPhone helpful here, because we know teens for their birthday, that’s not really an need peers (in case you are eaten experience that’s going to give them by mammoths and they only have the skills to get through life. I am people their own age left). not suggesting you create some great tragedy just so your teen can tick As a parent, you need talk to your the ‘experience disappointment’ teen directly about why we need good box. But when they are faced with friends and about whether their friends are fulfilling that need, and encourage 62 The Australian Women’s Weekly

away for a multitude of reasons, Why is my when your teenager doesn’t want and while there can be grief in any teenager to be seen with you or seems relationship ending, this is also an embarrassed embarrassed by you. Or, just opportunity to talk to your teen about by me? hypothetically, when they ask you what was healthy, or unhealthy, in not to kiss them goodbye any more that relationship. Learning to develop A friend of mine is the father of a at school drop-off when they’re healthy relationships is often about very almost-teenage girl. He told me only in Year 2. (I’m fine, I’m fine.) understanding who we are in those about the time she wanted to get a relationships. If you notice your teen hot chocolate with him before school Just because your teen is rejecting is always the friend making the effort, and ducked below the car window on you, though, doesn’t mean you reject ask them why they think that is. If you the way there, so no one from school them back. There is no ghosting in notice that they seem to be burning would see her drive past with her parenting. You have to be the bigger through friends, talk about that as well. dad. Because obviously that would person, even if they are taller than you be hideously embarrassing. (really, I’m fine). Psychologist Dr Lisa Finally, get them to actually call Damour talks about teens, especially their friends, or to see them in person. He of course had the rational (and teenage girls, doing this and how it can So much confusion happens over text. slightly rejected) reaction of asking, be particularly upsetting for fathers. During lockdown we realised how much “So, you want me to buy you a hot This is for the obvious and excellent more connected we felt after talking on chocolate, even though you’re too reason that their mothers have actually the phone (or dare I say, Zoom), instead ashamed to be seen with me?” been teenage girls. They see the of just texting back and forth. AWW I can only imagine the eye rolls that process their daughters go through ensued. It can be very upsetting from the perspective of someone who This is an edited extract has been through it and come out fine. from 50 Questions to Ask Your Teens by Daisy Dads are really important here. Turnbull, published by When dads don’t persevere with their Hardie Grant Books, teens, especially their daughters, this $24.99, out now. can lead to, er, ‘daddy issues’. And let’s not pretend that they don’t exist for sons as well. I mean, Oedipus is quite the complex. This is where being a lighthouse parent is so important – there, constant, safe. At St Catherine’s School in Sydney, we do surveys on student wellbeing, and this is what they consistently show: the first relationship to take a hit as your teenager individuates is the one with their parents. The second is with their teachers, and, finally, their friends. And then they reconcile in the opposite order – friends, teachers, parents. In other words, you get the worst of your teen for the longest. So, embrace how embarrassing you are. How unwoke, cringe-worthy and annoying you are. Know it is your constant love and support that will ensure they get through it, and that you come out the other side with a good relationship. And one day, they’ll be happy to walk down the street with you, past their peers. They might even buy you a hot chocolate. The Australian Women’s Weekly 63

Family matters An escape to the countryside sparked a new idea declared, there must be an old chap for the McDermott family’s own home. leaning on a shovel in the garden, ready for a chat. WORDS by PAT MCDER MOT T · ILLUSTR ATION by EU N-YOU NG LIM “Look at the sign above the door,” Afew years ago, on a on the way past. I declared. “Could there be a better EUN-YOUNG LIM/THE ILLUSTRATION ROOM. driving trip through “Very ‘un-British’,” I sniffed. “But name?” England, I caught sight of a ‘picture perfect’ you’d get that from any load of The cottage was called ‘Much cottage. “Stop here, stop 10-year-olds.” Muttering’ and after a bit of a wander here!” I shouted. The we found the owner in the potting shed. MOTH (Man Of The House) dutifully “The driver stuck his tongue out slammed on the brakes and pulled over. too,” said the MOTH. “Which would be the best pub in Grimley on Severn?” asked the MOTH, Our Budget rental car squealed to a “Ignore them all,” I said loftily. “Just which gave me time to peek politely halt on the edge of a deep ditch with look at this gorgeous cottage!” into a cottage window or two. I saw a chorus of blaring horns from behind a charming floral sofa, a sleepy cat us on the winding country lane. We were “We’ve seen 168 ‘gorgeous’ cottages and, in a corner, enough computer a few kilometres short of the charming so far,” he muttered. “One hundred equipment to launch a satellite. wee village of Grimley on the Severn, and sixty-nine if you count this one!” where we planned to spend the night. “There’s more pubs than people It’s true. Quaint cottages were in Grimley,” the old chap was telling The MOTH waved apologetically, everywhere. An ancient but not well- the MOTH, “but I wouldn’t go past and repeatedly, as a cranky cavalcade known British law requires every the Drunken Duck unless, of course, of lorries, school buses, cars and cottage to have a charming garden, it was to pop into the The Butcher’s caravans grumbled by. Children a quirky name and enough mice Arms, which is right next to the on the bus stuck out their tongues scrabbling around in the thatched roof Bull’s Head. to keep the average Aussie tourist awake all night. And, unless it’s “You’ll get a nice greeting at the raining cats and dogs or war has been Bull’s Head, but mind you don’t sit next to a bloke called Gordon.” “How will I know Gordon?” asked the MOTH. “He’ll be wearing a kilt and wanting a drink.” With that we said our goodbyes and headed cheerfully to Grimley. “Could there be a better name for a cottage?” I sighed. “We should have called our house ‘Much Muttering’! I mutter, you mutter. The neighbours mutter.” “The neighbours muttered because our kids kicked footballs into their rose bushes and made their dog bark,” the MOTH reminded me. “Not to mention three decades of parties and police cars in the driveway. Remember waking up with flashing lights on the bedroom ceiling and somebody knocking on the front door? “Anyway, you mutter more than me,” he muttered. “You mutter walking out the door so I can’t mutter back!” We sat quietly for a while after that. Neither of us wanted to spoil a nice drive with more muttering. What would you think, dear readers, if, instead of ‘Family Matters’, we called this column ‘Family Mutters’? It could work. AWW 64 The Australian Women’s Weekly

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UNSPLASH Good life The Weekly’s April guide to fashion, food, beauty, homes and good health “I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.” The Australian Women’s Weekly 67

Fashion 68 The Australian Women’s Weekly FASHION ASSISTANT: SARAH STERN. HAIR BY BRAD MULLINS. MAKE-UP BY AIMIE FIEBIG, MODEL: ROBYN LAWLEY (BELLA MANAGEMENT).

Christopher Esber knit dress, $890, from The Undone. Opposite page: Matin waistcoat, $550. Esse Studios silk trousers, $400, from The Undone. Oroton earrings, $80, and bracelet, $250, worn throughout.

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Fashion Friends with Frank knit top, $249, and skirt, $289. Mia Fratino knit cardigan, $399. Meadowlark pendant necklace, $709. Opposite page: Andie Swim ‘The Jetties’ one-piece, $150. The Curated coat, $590. The Australian Women’s Weekly 71

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Arnsdorf dress, $450, from The Undone. Target slides, $30. Opposite page: Lee Mathews shirt, $499. SLVRLAKE jeans, $460, from The Undone.

Friends with Frank T-shirt, $119, and trousers, $389. Mia Fratino knit jumper, $369. Opposite page: Oroton suit jacket, $599, and trousers, $429. St. Agni blouse, $699. All prices are approximate.

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Beauty Arch Perhaps the most rivals sought-after arches WORDS by BROOKE LE POER TRENCH of all time, Audrey Hepburn’s dark, To say brows have evolved over the past few decades is an understatement. From dreamy brows were bold to barely-there and then downright a focal point. bushy, it’s been quite a journey. For now, it seems full, fluffy brows are here to stay. For anyone who has Problem 1 experienced the wonders of a Not quite thick enough professional brow grooming, it’s quite The good news is that it’s easy enough to bulk up something to see brows. Once you have filled any spots, brush a tinted how strategic plucking and a little brow gel in the opposite direction of the hair’s growth, shading can transform your face. There’s something so polished from the tail to the inner corner of brows. To finish, about strong, defined brows. The sweep the wand through your brows in the direction good news is that it’s easy enough of hair growth. This is a handy make-up artist hack: by to rehab them at home, if you know coating the hair on all sides, you instantly make them where you’re going. Here, we tackle appear fuller. A favourite formula is Hourglass Arch some curly questions about how to handle gaps, dated shapes and Brow Volumizing Fiber Gel, $47, which coats each barely-there hairs, and ensure hair in teeny-tiny fibres that lengthen and thicken. the make-up you add has an impact. 76 The Australian Women’s Weekly

Problem 2 Problem 3 #browgoals Great shape, You can’t find Stars who are as well- but patchy your shape known for their arches Put down your tweezers and pick The basic rule of thumb is that your arch as their accolades. up some make-up. If you like your should line up with the outer edge of your shape, but the hairs look a little pupil. How high, long and thick you go sparse in spots, make-up artists depends on your face shape, which is why recommend a pomade (like Billion Dollar Brows Brown Powder, $29, a professional shaping can help get you shown above) or a super-fine brow back on track. If your brows lack arch, pencil for those who want to sketch in the missing strands. Opt for a firm then carefully remove one hair at a yet creamy texture to ensure that time beneath the highest point of your the colour sticks to skin with ease. When choosing a shade, look for one brow, just beyond the iris. And leave darker than your brow hairs for length alone – eyebrows that fall short are less flattering. a natural-looking finish. Brooke Shields Those fluffy, all-natural arches have left many women ruing the day they met tweezers. Problem 4 Bald spots If you’re growing out more than just sparse-looking brows and have gaps to fill, use a putty-like pomade. With an angled brush, paint on the brow shape you ultimately want to achieve, covering the patches and baby hairs with the pomade, which will both tame hairs and add dimension. The catch is that you must always stay within your natural brow line. To finish, blend with a brow brush. We love Too Faced Pomade In A Pencil, $38, a long-lasting, waterproof formula that has a soft texture and easy-to-build intensity to beef up bald spots. GETTY IMAGES. ALL PRICES ARE APPROXIMATE. Problem 5 Problem 6 Natalie Portman Wherefore art Too darn bushy Answering the question about thou, brows? whether brows can ever be too long This problem is a little like when Beyond pomades, pencils and supermodels complain they don’t and lean with a resounding no. shadow, there are more like their elbows – it’s a great one to permanent options. The have. Removing bulk doesn’t mean Jennifer Connelly removing hairs and pruning them. quickest is tinting, which bulks For a full brow with a modern shape, it’s Proof that not all brows need baby-fine hairs and creates a more more likely you need a trim. According to arches, the thespian’s thick, straight defined shape. For those with blonde brow expert Kristie Streicher (check out or light brows, this treatment can find @kristiestreicher for inspo), fill your brows brows only add to her gravitas. with a pencil as if you’re heading out, which arches you never knew you had. creates a guide and prevents over-trimming. The Australian Women’s Weekly 77 Micro-blading, a semi-permanent Then use a strong clear brow gel (like Ere tattoo treatment, is also popular. Perez Argan Brow Hero, $43) to brush hair It uses a tool made up of micro-needles upwards toward the hairline and out towards that inject ink into the top layer of skin, the temple. Let them dry and then only trim making hair-like strokes. There is the ends sticking beyond your desired shape. healing time and aftercare, but the Go one at a time, to avoid overdoing it. treatment can last years.

For those who suffer from an The alternative For floral fans, N°1 De GETTY IMAGES. ALL PRICES ARE APPROXIMATE. itchy, uncomfortable scalp, Chanel L’Eau Rouge regular TLC works wonders. The latest super serum based Revitalising Fragrance The Ordinary Natural around the plant-based retinol Mist, $185, is a skincare Moisturizing Factors + HA alternative, Cosmedix Bakuchiol base enriched with for Scalp, $22, is a milky, Complete, $97, helps brighten the camellia water and red leave-in emulsion that look of skin and visibly improves camellia extract, plus hydrates the area. Simply floral notes such as massage in a few drops uneven skin tone with no into a dry scalp at bedtime. sensitivity issues. Uniquely, the jasmine, orange Aveda Pramasana Protective gorgeously lightweight formula blossom and rose. Scalp Concentrate, $72, also includes ingredients like cleanses and exfoliates Peep SHOW away build-up, and helps squalane, jojoba seed and balance sebum levels too. moringa oil to condition the Eye openers skin and lock in moisture. Sunny For a simple three-step plan to thoughts brighten tired eyes, first, hydrate the under-eye with a formula like With summer in our (1) Dermalogica Awaken Peptide Eye rear view, that’s no reason Gel, $105, which we keep in the fridge. A dab of (2) Trinny London’s to ease up on the sun shimmering Eyetallics, $38, on lids protection. Ultra Violette is an effective way to instantly Dream Screen SPF50+, open eyes, while a few swipes of $62, is a featherweight (3) Milk Makeup Rise Mascara, $49, lengthens and thickens base that behaves lashes to the wake-up call. like a sunscreen, feels like a tinted moisturiser and gives skin a lovely sheen. 78 The Australian Women’s Weekly

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Health Get stronger in 12 MINUTES Want to get in shape for 2022? Fitness trainer and author Annie Deadman shares her progressive, daily workout. ‘A nnie…’camethe Air Force, who decided that short rate. Which means we can’t eat as much email from my editor. ‘We’d like you bursts of progressive exercise was just as we used to without it appearing in to decide a workout for our readers the job to keep pilots in shape – no lumps around our hips, thighs and – something to motivate them, matter where in the world they were. abdomen. You can snigger all you like, something where they’ll see results … It should be short, manageable and … ’ Prince Philip was an avid ‘Imagine! chaps – but the same happens I didn’t read the rest. I excitedly rolled fan, apparently! A short around men’s bellies. up my sleeves and got stuck in. workout you Imagine! A short workout can do So, lovely friends, I’ve Then came another email. ‘It’s to be you can do anywhere which, taken the idea, given it some based on the Royal Canadian Air Force rather than taking over your Deadman love and – ta da! 5BX workout.’ I did a little search and life, will improve and – devised a ‘Fit in 12’ plan. it seems that this series of five basic probably elongate it. There are 12 exercises in 12 exercises (hence 5BX) was devised in the early 1960s for the Royal Canadian Strength-training is more anywhere.’ minutes, covering mobility, important than ever as we strength and flexibility, so approach midlife. Muscle loss happens you’ll find the first one quite easy. Do when we age, and with that comes a them at least five days out of seven, decline in strength, joint stability, maybe even every day if the fancy flexibility, libido and our metabolic takes you. Good luck! HOW IT Annie’s moves WORKS The following instructions for each exercise describe one rep. There are six levels (A-F, see table overleaf). Perform the reps given in the ‘Fit in 12’ table (over the page). Start with level A and do the number of reps stipulated for each exercise, taking no longer AB CRUNCHES than 45 seconds to do each one. Have a BEST FOR ABDOMINALS 15-second rest between each exercise. Aim to Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat on the floor. perform all 12 exercises in level A in 12 Hands cupped behind your minutes. Once you’ve achieved this, the head, elbows forwards. Exhale, pull navel downwards and next day move up to the next level bring your shoulder blades (eg B), still taking only a max of 45 off the floor, crunching your ribs towards hips. Inhale seconds to do each exercise. and return to the floor. 80 The Australian Women’s Weekly

TOP TIP V CRUNCHES Some of the exercises have an BEST FOR THE CORE easier (or harder) alternative. Lie on your back, legs and A suggested way of tackling it arms in a wide V shape. would be to start with Level A Exhale as you bring one arm (and torso!) off floor to meet on Monday. Repeat level A opposite leg. Return to the until Friday, unless it’s way too floor (one rep) before repeating on other side. easy, in which case move on to level B. SQUATS PRONE LAT PULL-DOWNS BEST FOR BEST FOR BACK AND CORE Lie face down, arms out, palms flat. Inhale, LOWER BODY MUSCLES then as you exhale, lift torso off the ground Standing feet slightly a few inches and drive elbows to hips in a wider than shoulder ‘W’ shape. Squeeze glutes. width, lower hips down (as if sitting), keeping back straight. Squeeze glutes on the way up. FUTURE PUBLISHING LTD. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW BURTON. CRAB TOE INCHWORMS TOUCHES BEST FOR MOBILITY AND STRETCHING BEST FOR SHOULDERS Stand tall, then walk hands out into a plank AND CORE position. Lift hips to walk hands back to Sit on floor with arms standing. Try to keep legs straight throughout behind you, legs bent. for a delicious hamstring stretch. Lift hips a few inches off the floor, then lift The Australian Women’s Weekly 81 one leg in the air, reaching towards the foot with opposite arm (one rep). Alternate.

PUSH-UPS BEST FOR CHEST, TRICEPS AND SHOULDERS Start on your knees if you have to. Place hands under shoulders so elbows face diagonally behind you. Inhale as you aim chest to the floor and push it away again. JOGGING ON REVERSE LUNGES THE SPOT BEST FOR GLUTES AND HAMSTRINGS BEST FOR HEART Take a big step backwards with one AND LUNGS leg, bending both knees. Return back Run on the spot and leg to start position (one rep). Now bring knees up in do second rep with other leg. front as high as you feel able (rather than PLANK GLUTE BRIDGES heels behind). Land softly. One knee up BEST FOR CORE BEST FOR GLUTES AND HAMSTRINGS is one rep (you will Lie on back, knees bent. Dig heels in need a good bra AND SHOULDERS and lift hips off floor, squeezing glutes for this one!). Start with knees hard at the top for a split second. Return on floor for the to the floor. That’s one rep. 82 The Australian Women’s Weekly prescribed time, making sure hips Annie Deadman’s The 21 Day Blast Plan are not stuck up in (HQ, HarperCollins) is available as an the air. Progress to e-book from amazon.com.au. moving your knees For more info, visit theblastplan.com off the floor when you’re ready! MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS BEST FOR ABS AND UPPER BODY STRENGTH Start in a plank, knees off floor, arms straight. Drive knee to chest; return (one rep), swapping legs. As you progress you will speed up.

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Offering a hand Ways to help a friend in need WORDS by BROOKE LE POER TRENCH Watching a loved one struggle is tough. Here, experts reveal the best way to reach out and show your support. Given that one in five Consider yourself Q: What are New Zealanders will some signs face mental health The adage that you must help yourself your friend issues during their before you can help others rings true might need lives, it’s safe to assume in this situation, says psychologist professional that most of us have or David Godden, clinical director of The will know someone who needs our Bay Retreats. “It’s normal to have a help? support at some point. And yet while range of feelings yourself when being a good friend comes quite around a loved one’s depression, grief A: “Look out for increased or naturally, helping someone who is or mental health challenge,” he says. high levels of alcohol or drug use, suffering from low mood, anxiety or “You might be feeling helpless, angry, missing appointments or work and depression isn’t always intuitive. Nor worried, frustrated or sad, and being family commitments, or isolating is it easy. “We can sometimes feel aware of your own feelings is themselves and not responding to discomfort around our family and a good first step towards ensuring friends’ emotional experiences, they don’t get in the way of helping efforts to reach out to them.” especially if we think it is our job to a person who is suffering.” – David Godden, clinical director of fix what they’re going through or if we’re concerned about saying the Cross the line The Bay Retreats wrong thing,” says clinical psychologist Dr Jodie Lowinger, When people are depressed or anxious, our own discomfort stems from a fear author of The Mind Strength Method. they withdraw, so a conversation about of vulnerability. Another issue is that One of the most powerful things you their mental health can feel like you’re people can feel inadequate. “If you are can do, she says, is allow that person overstepping. “The most important the person there in that moment with to feel your kindness and connection. thing is that you should not avoid the your friend or family member, then Here’s how to do it … uncomfortable conversation,” says you are the best – and sometimes the David, noting that a lot of the time only – person who can offer support.” 84 The Australian Women’s Weekly

Tread lightly For Dr Lowinger, it comes down to “Time for tea has never been so trusting your gut. “If your intuition says good. Reducing inflammation Being worried about someone is one you are concerned about your friend’s thing; knowing how to approach them wellbeing, then listen to it.” is always on the forefront of is another. “One of the easiest ways is my mind when it comes to to think about something they enjoyed Look within recovery, so you can imagine in the past that they have not done my excitement when Dilmah for a while, and remark on this,” says So, you’ve had a conversation and launched their new Arana David. For instance, with someone who they’ve asked for your advice. While Digestive tea, loaded with enjoys swimming, you might say “I was sharing your ideas is good, David points Coriander & Red Rooibos at the beach yesterday and the water out that this is also a chance for them together making a potent was freezing. Have you noticed that to connect with their own (possibly antioxidant, cell rejuvenation when you swim?” If they say they forgotten) strength and wisdom. “Ask & immune boosting cup of haven’t been for weeks, you could them what they think of the situation follow it up with, “That’s not like you. or, if roles were reversed, what their wellness. Have you been feeling okay?” advice would be. This can help a person connect with their own ability to be the Arana is a naturally holistic Avoid instructions leader of their own recovery while also and delicious new range feeling supported.” inspired by Ayurveda, the We’re hardwired to jump into solutions mode when we discover a problem. Speak, don’t do science of life and an ancient However, telling someone what to do holistic system that emphasises can intensify the emotional experience Helping loved ones is part of who or make them shut down. Instead, we are as human beings, says David, the harmony of mind, body acknowledge your friend’s emotions but it can also be counterproductive. and spirit.” without judgement. “Statements such “Doing small tasks like laundry or as ‘I’m here with you’ help them feel picking up groceries is always helpful. @freinasands heard and connected,” says Dr Lowinger. However, identify when you are – Runner, Mother, Boss Babe enabling the behaviour. For instance, if Listen up someone is consuming alcohol or drugs & Tea Drinker at increasing levels or is always late for Before you approach someone, it’s work, stepping in and taking the SLEEP COMFORT DETOX DIGESTIVE worth considering whether you have responsibility of daily life away from GETTY IMAGES. what it takes to listen. “Learning them can exacerbate the problem.” This #Dilmah #AranaHerbalTea how to sit with your own and others’ is especially common with parents. “It’s vulnerability takes time, as does the not always what the person needs,” says ability to listen,” says David. “First and David. “Gauge whether your loved one foremost be present, not distracted. Put can help themselves and if they have down the phone, face the person and chosen not to, or if they can’t.” give them your full attention. Ask them if they want you to respond Paint a picture or to just listen.” An effective way to keep the conversation going is: When it comes to helping a partner “Can you tell me more?” who’s shutting you out, sharing how their behaviour is affecting you may Be a boomerang resonate, because they’re less likely to take it as criticism. “One of the most It’s quite possible that when you share common situations I face in my role is your concerns, your friend politely being contacted by someone whose declines help. Or perhaps not partner is drinking too much, which can so politely (this is pretty much be a sign they need help and support, guaranteed if you label them as but who shut the conversation down,” depressed or sad, says David). Do you says David. If this sounds familiar, say respect their wishes? “Gentle checking something like: “When I see you in is helpful,” says Dr Lowinger, who drinking it makes me feel so upset, suggests saying something like, “I’m because I want to help you but I know here whenever you’re ready.” This can this is something you have to do for be a juggling act between respecting a yourself.” It just might let you get close person’s wishes and engaging in actions enough to help. AWW that may help them turn things around.

Maggie Beer PHOTOCHEF: CAITLYN MCGRATH. This month Maggie celebrates the change of season with simple dishes showcasing figs, pomegranate, grapes and walnuts. PHOTOGRAPHY by CON POULOS · STYLING by MICHELE CRANSTON 86 The Australian Women’s Weekly

PG 92 Baked eggplant with crunchy breadcrumbs, anchovies & pecorino

PG 92 “There’s just enough cream in Chicken thighs the sauce to make with verjuice it truly luscious grape sauce and a tad old-fashioned, which I love.” 88 The Australian Women’s Weekly

Maggie Beer Pan-fried goat’s cheese with walnuts, pomegranate & mint SERVES 4 PREP & COOK TIME 30 MINUTES (+ STANDING TIME) 8 preserved vine leaves roasted, skinned and 1 tablespoon verjuice chopped 500g goat’s cheese ½ fresh pomegranate, ¼ cup (60ml) extra virgin arils removed olive oil 2 tablespoons fresh 1⁄3 cup (35g) walnuts, mint leaves, torn 1 Place vine leaves in a bowl of water and leave for a half an hour to rinse salt. Discard water, dry and then drizzle with verjuice. 2 Divide the goat’s cheese into 8 portions. If vine leaves are large cut in half, wrap the goat’s cheese in the vine leaves, trim any excess leaf. 3 Preheat a barbecue or griddle pan over medium heat. Brush the goat’s cheese parcels with one tablespoon of the olive oil on both sides and cook (folded side down) for 2 minutes. Turn and grill for 2-3 minutes or until you have nice char marks on the vine leaves. 4 Arrange on a shared platter and drizzle with the remaining olive oil; serve topped with walnuts, pomegranate arils and mint. Not suitable to freeze. The Australian Women’s Weekly 89

Maggie Beer Baked stuffed figs with feta & walnuts SERVES 4 PREP & COOK TIME 10 MINUTES ¾ cup (90g) walnut 1 Preheat the oven to 240°C (220°C fan-forced). Place halves walnuts on a tray and toast for 5 minutes. Remove from 8 figs oven and rub with tea towel while still warm to remove 100g feta some of the skin. Allow to cool, roughly chop and set aside. 2 teaspoons lemon 2 Cut a cross into the top of the figs to open and place into thyme a medium baking paper-lined dish. Fill figs with feta and 2 tablespoons vino cotto, top with walnuts, thyme and drizzle with vino cotto. Bake plus extra to serve for 5-6 minutes or until figs are warmed through. 2 tablespoons honey, 3 Serve drizzled with vino cotto and honey. to serve Not suitable to freeze. Maggie’s Vino cotto is made from grape must – meaning “young wine” – which is the name given to freshly pressed grape juice containing the skins and stems of the grapes. It has a unique sweet and sour flavour and can be used in dressings, relishes and deglazing. 90 The Australian Women’s Weekly

Syrupy marmalade & almond cake with apricot compote SERVES 10 PREP & COOK TIME 1½ HOURS 1 medium blood orange or navel 1 Place the whole blood orange into a small the heat and set aside to cool for 10 minutes. orange pot and cover with water. Bring to the boil, 6 APRICOT COMPOTE Place the honey, 1 cup (220g) caster sugar then gently simmer for 30 minutes or until verjuice, water and rosemary in a medium 300g unsalted butter, softened the blood orange is soft. Remove the blood saucepan and bring up to a simmer. Add the 6 free range eggs orange from the water and allow to cool for dried apricots and cook gently on low heat 1⁄3 cup (110g) Seville orange 10 minutes. Cut into 8 segments, remove and for 2-3 minutes until plump and softened. marmalade discard seeds and puree in blender. Set aside. Remove the apricots from the pan, then 2½ cups (300g) almond meal 2 Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). reduce the liquid until it is a syrup 150g polenta Grease a 23cm round springform cake pan, consistency (approximately ¼ cup). Remove 1 teaspoon baking powder line the base and side with baking paper. from the heat and add the apricots back into 1⁄4 cup (20g) flaked almonds, toasted 3 Place the sugar and butter into the bowl the syrup and set aside to cool. 400g crème fraÎche or of a stand mixer, beat until light and fluffy. 7 Pour half the syrup over the rested cake mascarpone, to serve Reduce the speed to medium and slowly add and allow it to soak through. APRICOT COMPOTE the eggs, one at a time. Add the marmalade 8 Serve the cake topped with almonds and ½ cup (175g) honey and blood orange puree, mix to combine. Add the apricot compote and accompany with 200ml verjuice the almond meal, polenta and baking powder crème fraîche or mascarpone. 200ml water and beat until well combined. Cake suitable to freeze. 2 sprigs rosemary 4 Spread the cake mixture into prepared pan 400g dried Australian apricots and bake for 50 minutes. Remove from oven Maggie’s BLOOD ORANGE SYRUP and cool on wire rack. 200ml blood orange juice 5 BLOOD ORANGE SYRUP While the cake is Use navel oranges if blood oranges are not available. (or navel orange) baking, place the blood orange juice, verjuice You can test this cake by inserting a skewer into the 200ml verjuice and sugar into a small pan. Bring to boil over middle of the cake, if it comes out clean it is cooked. 200g caster sugar high heat then reduce by half. Remove from If the skewer is wet it will require further cooking. The Australian Women’s Weekly 91

Maggie Beer “We love to eat outside with Chicken thighs with everything on the table and verjuice grape sauce everyone involved. Sharing your table is what it’s all about.” SERVES 4 PREP & COOK TIME 45 MINUTES (+ RESTING TIME) Baked eggplant with crunchy breadcrumbs, anchovies & pecorino 4 large chicken thighs (800g), skin on and bone in SERVES 4 PREP & COOK TIME 40 MINUTES 2 tablespoons unsalted butter ¼ cup (60ml) extra virgin olive oil 2 medium (600g) eggplants 1 cup (75g) coarse sourdough 2 golden shallots, roughly chopped ½ cup (125ml) extra virgin breadcrumbs 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped olive oil 1⁄3 cup pecorino, finely grated 1⁄4 cup (60ml) verjuice 4 (20g) anchovies 2 tablespoons each mint and 1⁄4 cup (60ml) chicken stock 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped parsley, coarsely chopped 1⁄3 cup (80ml) thickened cream 1 tablespoon lemon thyme leaves 1 Preheat oven to 240°C (220°C fan-forced). 140g green grapes, halved PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY BY JULIE ADAMS. 2 Cut the eggplants in half lengthways, then carefully scoop the baby beetroot leaves (optional) flesh out. Place eggplant skins and eggplant flesh on a tray lined with baking paper, drizzle with ¼ cup of the olive oil, season and 1 Preheat oven to 220°C (200°C fan-forced). bake for 15 minutes until the skins are crispy and the flesh is tender. 2 Season the skin of the chicken thighs with 3 Heat the remaining olive oil in a medium frying pan over a low sea salt. heat, add anchovy fillets and garlic. Cook gently for a minute 3 Place a large nonstick, oven-proof frypan over until the anchovy breaks down and the garlic is soft. Add the medium heat and melt butter. Add 1 tablespoon breadcrumbs and cook for 2 minutes or until lightly toasted. of oil to stop the butter from burning. Cook the Remove from heat and combine with cooked eggplant flesh and chicken thighs skin-side down for 5 minutes or 1 tablespoon mint. until golden brown. Turn over and cook for 4 Spoon mixture into eggplant skins. Top with pecorino and a drizzle another minute. Flip thighs back skin-side up of olive oil then place back in oven for 10 minutes until golden. and place the pan in the oven for 25 minutes. 5 Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 5 minutes then add 4 Meanwhile, place a medium frypan over the remaining mint and the parsley and serve. medium heat. Add the remaining oil and Not suitable to freeze. shallots and fry gently until they begin to soften; add the garlic and cook for another minute, then deglaze with verjuice and cook for a further 2 minutes. 5 Add the stock, cream and thyme. Increase the heat and bring to the boil; reduce to a sauce consistency. Add the grapes at the last moment and season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. 6 Remove chicken from the oven and allow to rest for 10 minutes. To serve, place the chicken thighs onto a serving platter. Pour any of the resting juices into the verjuice sauce, then pour over the thighs and finish with baby beetroot leaves. Not suitable to freeze. Maggie’s This dish also goes beautifully served with soft polenta. 92 The Australian Women’s Weekly



Great bakes Modern bakes When the mood strikes, head to the kitchen to brush up on your baking skills with our delicious on-trend recipes for savoury pies and pastries. PHOTOGRAPHY by JA MES MOFFAT T · STYLING by OLIVIA BLACK MORE PG 99 Beef carbonade pie with rye flaky pastry PHOTOCHEF REBECCA LYALL.

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Red onion tarte tatin SERVES 4 PREP + COOK TIME 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES 2 tablespoons extra virgin 1 Preheat oven to 200°C (180°C to join the sheets together. Carefully olive oil fan-forced). lay puff pastry over onions in pan; 6 small (600g ) red onions, 2 Heat oil in a 26cm straight-sided, trim excess pastry and tuck edges halved crossways heavy-based ovenproof frying pan over in around onions. 4 small fresh thyme sprigs medium heat. Add onion, cut-side up, 4 Bake tart for 30 minutes or until 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar and thyme; cook for 5 minutes. Add pastry is puffed, browned and cooked 1 tablespoon honey vinegar and honey; cook for 2 minutes. through. Cool for 10 minutes. 2 cloves garlic, sliced thinly Turn onion carefully; top evenly with 5 Carefully invert tart onto a large 2 sheets (330g) frozen puff garlic, then season with salt and black plate or chopping board. Top with pastry, thawed pepper. Bake for 15 minutes. goat’s cheese and figs. Serve tart 80g soft goat’s cheese 3 Stack puff pastry sheets on top of immediately. 2 medium (120g) figs, halved one another on a clean work surface; Suitable to freeze without goat’s or quartered roll a rolling pin lightly over the stack cheese or figs. 96 The Australian Women’s Weekly

Great bakes Chicken, chorizo & harissa empanadas MAKES 25 PREP + COOK TIME 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES (+ STANDING + COOLING) 2 cups (300g) masa harina 1 Combine masa harina and salt in a large Cut out 9cm rounds. Spoon 1 tablespoon 1 teaspoon table salt bowl; add 1⅓ cups (330ml) cold water, of chicken mixture on one side of a round. ¼ cup (60ml) extra virgin olive oil mix to a soft dough. Wrap dough in plastic Moisten edge with a little water; press 2 medium (300g) brown onions, wrap; stand for 30 minutes. together gently to seal. Place empanadas chopped finely 2 Meanwhile, heat oil in a large saucepan on a baking paper-lined oven tray; cover 400g chicken thigh fillets, trimmed, over a medium heat. Cook onion, stirring, with baking paper and a damp tea towel. chopped finely for 5 minutes or until soft. Add chicken Repeat with remaining pastry half and 140g chorizo sausage, skinned, and chorizo; cook, stirring, over medium filling. Crimp rounded edge with a fork. crumbled finely heat for 5 minutes or until just cooked 4 Deep-fry empanadas, in hot oil over 2 cloves garlic, crushed through. Add garlic and harissa to taste; medium heat, in batches, for 2 minutes 1 tablespoon harissa, approximately cook, stirring, for a further 1 minute or each side or until golden. Remove with ¼ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf until fragrant. Stir in parsley. Cool. a slotted spoon; drain on paper towel. parsley 3 Knead dough lightly until smooth; 5 Serve empanadas hot, sprinkled with salt. vegetable or olive oil, for deep-frying divide in half. Roll half the dough between Baked and unbaked empanadas suitable sea salt flakes, to serve sheets of baking paper until 2mm thick. to freeze. the Test Kitchen Masa harina is a flour made from ground corn, treated with lye. It’s available from delis and gourmet food stores, but you can substitute with cornmeal. Harissa is a hot chilli paste – add gradually to suit your heat level. The Australian Women’s Weekly 97

Great bakes Chicken & tarragon pies with polenta crust MAKES 8 PREP + COOK TIME 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES (+ REFRIGERATION, COOLING, FREEZING + STANDING) 1 tablespoon extra virgin 1 POLENTA PASTRY Process flour, polenta Roll out one portion on a floured work surface olive oil and butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. until 17cm round, large enough to line a pan 500g chicken thigh fillets, Lightly beat eggs and ¼ cup (60ml) iced water in hole and with generous overhang. Ease pastry cut into 3cm pieces a small bowl with a fork; reserve 1 tablespoon into hole; press into base and side. Repeat with 1 small (200g) leek, white for brushing. Add remaining egg mixture to remaining portions. Trim pastry, leaving 1cm part only, chopped coarsely flour mixture, process until pastry begins to above pan edge. Cover; refrigerate for 30 minutes. 1 small (250g) orange sweet come together. Turn onto a work surface; Roll remaining pastry with any scraps; use an potato, chopped coarsely knead lightly until smooth. Divide dough 8cm cutter to cut out eight rounds. Place rounds ¼ cup (60ml) white wine into two-thirds and one-third; press into on a baking paper-lined oven tray; freeze for ¼ cup (60ml) chicken stock flat rounds. Wrap separately in plastic wrap; 15 minutes or until required. 200g crème fraîche refrigerate for 1 hour. 4 Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced); 1 tablespoon plain flour 2 Meanwhile, heat half the oil in a large place two trays in oven while heating. 2 teaspoons finely chopped frying pan over medium heat; cook chicken, 5 Spoon chicken mixture into pastry cases. fresh tarragon in batches, until browned. Remove from pan. Working quickly, cut a cross in the centre of one 2 teaspoons polenta Heat remaining oil in same pan; cook leek and pastry round; place over filling. Lightly brush 1½ teaspoons sea sweet potato, stirring, for 3 minutes. Add wine with reserved egg mixture. Fold overhanging salt flakes and stock; cook, stirring occasionally, for pastry inwards to seal pie; brush lightly with POLENTA PASTRY 10 minutes, or until most of the liquid has egg mixture. Repeat with remaining rounds and 2 cups (300g) plain flour evaporated and sweet potato is tender. pies. Sprinkle pies with polenta and salt flakes. ½ cup (80g) polenta Remove from heat; stir in chicken, combined 6 Place muffin pans on hot oven trays. Bake 200g cold unsalted butter, crème fraîche and flour, then tarragon. for 18 minutes or until pastry is golden, swapping chopped Season to taste. Cool. trays halfway through. Leave pies in pans for 2 eggs 3 Lightly grease eight holes of two 6-hole 5 minutes before serving. Use a palette knife (¾-cup/180ml) Texas muffin pans. Divide to remove pies from pans. larger quantity of pastry into eight portions. Baked and unbaked pies suitable to freeze. 98 The Australian Women’s Weekly

Beef carbonade pie with rye flaky pastry Cheesy brunch bread pudding with slow-roasted tomatoes SERVES 4 PREP + COOK TIME 3 HOURS 45 MINUTES (+ REFRIGERATION) SERVES 6 PREP + COOK TIME 1 HOUR 40 MINUTES 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon wholegrain mustard 1kg gravy beef, trimmed, cut into 1 tablespoon brown sugar 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 3cm pieces 2 fresh bay leaves 3 medium (450g) onions, sliced thinly 30g butter 6 fresh thyme sprigs, plus 2 3 cloves garlic, crushed 12 shallots (300g), peeled, sliced teaspoons thyme leaves extra 1 tablespoon coarsely chopped rosemary leaves, plus 1 2 medium (240g) carrots, chopped 1 teaspoon sea salt flakes tablespoon leaves extra 1 clove garlic, crushed RYE PASTRY 2 teaspoons fennel seeds ¼ cup (40g) plain flour 225g butter 300g stale crusty sourdough bread, sliced thickly 1½ cups (375ml) Guinness beer 1 cup (160g) wholemeal rye flour 60g salted butter, softened 2 cups (500ml) beef stock 1 cup (160g) pastry flour 4 eggs, beaten lightly 1¼ cups (310ml) milk 1 Heat half the oil in a large ovenproof casserole dish. Brown meat, ⅔ cup (180ml) buttermilk in two batches, for 5 minutes or until golden. Transfer to a bowl. ⅓ cup (25g) finely grated parmesan, 2 Heat butter in same ovenproof dish over medium heat; cook plus 2 tablespoons extra shallots and carrot for 5 minutes or until golden. Add garlic and ⅓ cup coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley leaves flour; cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Gradually stir in beer until 2 tablespoons chopped chives smooth. Stir in stock, mustard, sugar, bay leaves and thyme sprigs. ¾ cup (180g) firm fresh ricotta Return beef and any juices to the dish; bring to the boil. Reduce heat 150g Taleggio cheese, sliced to low; simmer, covered, for 1½ hours or until beef is tender. SLOW-ROASTED TOMATOES Uncover; simmer rapidly for a further 30 minutes or until sauce is 6 medium (450g) Roma tomatoes, halved reduced. Remove from heat; discard bay leaves and thyme. Cool. 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 3 RYE PASTRY Cut butter into 2cm pieces; freeze 10 minutes until 1 tablespoon rosemary leaves firm. Process flours and one-third of the butter until small crumbs 2 teaspoons fennel seeds form. Add remaining butter and ⅓ cup (80ml) iced water. Pulse four times to combine coarsely, leaving visible chunks of butter. Turn the 1 Preheat oven to 140°C (120°C fan-forced). lumpy dough out onto a floured work surface; shape into a rectangle. 2 SLOW-ROASTED TOMATOES Place tomatoes Roll dough between two sheets of baking paper to a 15cm x 30cm on a large oven tray lined with baking paper; rectangle. Fold into thirds and re-roll into a 20cm x 30cm rectangle. drizzle with oil, sprinkle with rosemary and Roll up like a Swiss roll, cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for fennel seeds, then season. Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes. or until edges are beginning to darken and 4 Preheat oven to 220°C (200°C fan-forced). Place a large oven tray tomatoes have shrunk slightly. in oven to preheat. 3 Meanwhile, heat oil in a medium frying pan 5 Lightly grease a 23cm, 5cm deep metal pie tin. Roll out two-thirds over medium heat. Cook onion, stirring, for of the pastry until large enough to line base and sides of pie tin. Fill 8 minutes or until softened. Add garlic, chopped with the cooled filling. Sprinkle remaining pastry with thyme leaves rosemary and fennel seeds; cook for a further and roll out until large enough to cover the top of the pie. Trim 5 minutes or until very tender. pastry edges, press with a fork to seal. Sprinkle the top of the pie 4 Spread bread with butter; halve slices if large. with sea salt and make three slits in middle of pastry lid with a small Place bread slices upright in a buttered 1.75-litre knife to allow steam to escape. (7-cup), 19cm x 29cm (top measurement) oval 6 Place pie on preheated tray; bake for 45 minutes or until golden, ovenproof dish. covering the edge of the pie with foil if it starts to get too brown. 5 Whisk egg, milk, buttermilk, parmesan, Stand pie for 10 minutes before serving. parsley and chives in a large bowl. Season. Pour Baked and unbaked pie suitable to freeze. egg mixture over bread. Place spoonfuls of onion mixture and ricotta between and on top the Test Kitchen of bread slices. Top with Taleggio, then sprinkle with extra parmesan and extra rosemary. Stand The filling and the pastry can be made 2 days ahead or for 20 minutes. frozen separately for up to 2 months. Bake on the day 6 Remove roasted tomatoes from oven; increase of serving. Serve with a green salad or brussels sprouts the temperature to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). tossed in extra virgin olive oil and roasted at the same 7 Bake bread pudding for 30 minutes or until time that the pie is cooking. egg mixture has set and top is golden and crusty. 8 Serve pudding topped with the roasted tomatoes. Not suitable to freeze. The Australian Women’s Weekly 99

Decadent desserts Made The holiday weekend is a with love great time to gather friends and family together and indulge in sweet treats including plenty of chocolate. PG 103 Golden swirl meringues with chocolate drizzle PHOTOGR APHY by JOHN PAUL URIZAR · STYLING by A MBER DE FLORIO 100 The Australian Women’s Weekly