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Sneaking in a Turnip
I can’t remember the last time I cooked with a turnip and am prepared to go out on a limb and suggest that it may have been in the last century. Which is a little strange as when I was … Continue reading
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Tagged ripailles, soupe de legumes, stephane reynaud, vegetable soup
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Recipes from Australia’s Masterchef
I wasn’t going to buy Adam Liaw’s cookbook, Two Asian Kitchens, but when I saw it in a shop for $10, well I changed my mind. I’m not sure what others think of Masterchef but for me Series 2 was the … Continue reading
Pacifica Blue Plates
Quite a cold day yesterday in Melbourne, even during the middle of the day when a few of us went down to Federation Square to welcome Cadel back. Its been an interesting week at work, to say the least, so I … Continue reading
More Pasta
More Great Italian Pasta is one of Diane Seed’s cookbooks. Probably a little less accessible than The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces and to be honest I can’t remember ever using it before. But I have a bit of a thing … Continue reading
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Tagged cream and ham, diane seed, more great italian pasta, rigatoni, rigatoni with fennel
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Turquoise
Greg and Lucy Malouf produce some beautiful cookbooks and I think Turquoise is the nicest of them, at least from the ones I’ve had a look at. This book is part cookbook, part travel book, and having spent a week in … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken in pistachio, greg malouf, shepherds salad, sumac and sesame seed, turkey, turquoise
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Masterchef Vol 1
Last night being the last day of Masterchef and all that, I thought I’d pull out the book from the first series, given to me for Xmas two years ago. The other parameter in play was that I had a … Continue reading
Sausage Day
I have a few books on charcuterie and while the weather is still cool I need to tick them off. Today I made two of my favourite types of sausages from two books. I made fresh chorizo from Cured by Lindy Wildsmith and weisswurst … Continue reading
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Tagged charcuterie, chorizo, curing, homemade chorizo, homemade sausages, homemade weisswurst, weisswurst
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Retro Food
Whenever I see the old hardcover Women’s Weekly cookbooks, I think of food from my youth. I know the Women’s Weekly Original Cookbook was the first cook book I ever bought and I’m pretty sure the Women’s Weekly New Cookbook … Continue reading
Fresh
Took me a while to find something to cook the other night. I flicked through a few books, realised I’ve still got quite a bit of work to do, and settled on Fresh. Fresh - The Seasonal Produce Cookbook is a … Continue reading
Artichokes
Maree brought home some baby artichokes on the weekend as a sort of “ingredient test” for me. They sat on the bench for a day in a wooden bowl and looked quite cute – should have taken a pic. Luckily … Continue reading
