Just prior to our holiday at the end of last year, my ever so industrious taller half constructed a smoker. It’s called an Ugly Drum Smoker, somewhat inaptly in my opinion as I don’t personally find it that ugly. In any case as the name suggests it is made with a 44 gallon drum complete…
Month: January 2010
Celebrity Sasha’s Beef Pho
I love it when my bf makes Pho. So healthy and delicious. This one involves bean sprouts, thai basil leaves, shallots, chilli, rice noodles, thin beef strips and awesome broth. Ăn ngon nhé!
Moroccan inspired fish, mussels and quinoa
I was itching to make something packed with goodness AND flavour. I’ve featured a dish similar to this in my blog before but decided to up the anti on it and include MORE goodness and flavour. Ingredients for serving two 3/4 spanish onion sliced into rings 1/4 spanish onion finely diced and crispy fried 1…
Teatro Culinario
During our travels we ate dinner at the fantastic Casa Crespo on Oaxaca Mexico. Described as culinary theatre the degustation (only available through reservation) is kicked off by a demonstration of cooking a seafood broth in individual bowls with hot rocks, a traditional method of cooking to the indigenous of this area. We chose to…
Healthy salmon goes a wee bit naughty
We were reading about smoked salmon with maple syrup while we were away which we’re very keen on trying out in our home made drum smoker. In the mean time Sasha made steamed salmon with a salad that’s probably looking familiar by now and all drizzled with maple syrup. Sash’s take on nectarine salad 2…
Mexican: Chicken tacos
This was my first attempt at making something as authentically Mexican as I could which is a little tricky as sourcing the correct ingredients is impossible. The are only about 3000 Mexicans living in Australia which solves my long pondered problem as to why Mexican food in Australia is so crap. The key to really…
Celebrity fish curry
I’ve had a bit of a rethink in terms of the way I approach this blog. I’m finding that I often don’t really have time to update it as regularly as I like and pinning my bf down for his recipes can be a tricky process but it seems such a waste to leave them…
Our first home cooked Aussie meal
Now this is nothing fancy. Taking into consideration the 24 hours in transit via four aeroplanes it’s a minor miracle we managed to cook anything at all. I was dreaming about roo steak on the flight home so I followed dreams and hey presto, a simple dinner of nectarine, pine nut, lettuce and halloumi salad…
Quail, stuffed tomatoes and curried loose ends
Phew. 2010 hey. My how time flies. Sadly at the end of last year prior to my overseas adventures I was unable to upload all of the great meals we cooked. Now that time has passed the exact ingredients for various things have fallen into the recesses of my memory. Some of these things looked…
Thyme infused roasted spatchcock with lentil vege stew
Our thyme is full of gorgeous fresh spring shoots and flowers at the moment making it a gorgeous fragrant addition to a dish. Spatchcock 2 young fresh spatchcock 50g butter 1 handful of thyme Lift the skin on the breast of the bird and pop the butter under each breast with half the thyme. Push…
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