Chocolate Sludge (a chocolate self-saucing pudding) and prawn and fennel risotto
This week’s obsession is clearly going to be this. ***** This weekend was absolutely sensational. Highlights include: – torrential rain for most of the weekend – brekkie at the Fox yesterday with the...
View ArticleMushy pea fishcakes
It’s absolutely Baltic in Sydney tonight. I should know, I’ve just spent a little over an hour standing on a footy field in a bracing wind. It hasn’t done anything to dislodge the sprogget. I had...
View ArticleCaremlised lime snapper
Now Chef is working in Pyrmont he can go here on the way home from work. So last week I asked him to pick up some white fish fillets on the way home. He selected a whole snapper and they gutted and...
View ArticleOde to Nigella 15 – prawn and mango red curry
So my friend Bec dropped in the other day and brought with her a UK Good Housekeeping magazine with Nigella on the cover (Oct07). She doesn’t know I blog or that I was in the midst of my ode to...
View ArticleOde to Nigella 30 – Salmon with ginger, soy and rice vinegar
Well, here we are. My thirty day nod to Nigella has come to an end. Granted it was a stupid idea in light of Project Boombalardy, but my goodness it’s been fun. I’ve come to realise that yes, the woman...
View ArticleFish with broccolini, olives and tomatoes
So the other week we had some friends over for dinner. Initially I was given the impression it was just the adults coming so I started planning a fancy-pants three course evening of taste sensations....
View ArticleOysters with soy, cucumber, chives and lime dressing
One of the other dishes on offer at our dinner for the Ds were freshly shucked oysters. Chef came home with a bag of FIVE dozen unopened oysters and a shucking knife. I had seen this recipe in the...
View ArticleWhole baked snapper with a lemon butter sauce
Ok, so this was dinner tonight to celebrate my Mum’s birthday and can I just say, despite Jasper’s meltdown and Grover copying whatever Jasper was doing, it was a sensation. What made it? Apart from...
View ArticleChicken and prawn stir fry
You know the chicken and cashew you get from your local chinese? In that thick comforting sauce of non-description? This is as close to it as I’ve been able to make. It is based on Adam Liaw’s recipe...
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