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Quick & easy Thai beef salad

December 14, 2017 by date with a plate.

I am back. Finally. Sorry – I got really distracted. It’s been a long time coming but I am slowly stepping back into blog-land. Now I need to figure out how to stay consistent…any tips? I have been thinking a lot lately about healthy meals – and that healthy doesn’t have to mean boring, bland or difficult. In fact, it’s my new mission to make it quite the opposite. And while I apprentice that there’s lots of others already doing […]

Categories: Asian, BBQ, Beef, Dinner, Lunch, mid-week, Salad • Tags: beansprouts, beef, capsicum, coriander, cucumber, dinner, easy, lime, Mint, onion, tomato

Baked eggs with chickpeas, tomato and basil

January 18, 2016 by date with a plate.

The great thing about eggs is they don’t need to be confined to breakfast. Dinner, snack time or lunch, eggs are one versatile and affordable ingredient and it’s probably why I utilise them in my cooking so often. Although I made this meal for breakfast, it can just as easily be eaten for lunch or dinner. It’s quick, easy, cheap and most importantly; tasty and filling. It’s also very adaptable, for example, feel free to add some grilled chorizo/bacon or […]

Categories: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, One Pot Wonder, Vegetarian • Tags: basil, Breakfast, chickpea, chili, dinner, eggs, garlic, onion, oregano, tomato

Perfect roast potatoes

May 25, 2015 by date with a plate.

Generally speaking, roasting vegetables is easy and you don’t really need a recipe to do it. Heat oven, roast vegetables, remove vegetables from oven before they burn. But what about potatoes? Well, in my opinion, they need a little bit of extra love to ensure they become the star vegetable of your next roast. Generally speaking, potatoes are often the subject of unfair criticism. People believe they are ‘bad’ carbs and directly result in weight gain. Or rather, people are […]

Categories: Roast, Vegetarian • Tags: dinner, garlic, potato, sage

Braised beef cheeks with cauliflower puree & salsa verde

April 29, 2014 by date with a plate.

We have a ritual every Monday night, we get together with two of our favourite people, eat good food, drink wine and indulge in an hour of blissful silence where we become lost in the world of Game of Thrones. It all started over a love affair for the show and the fact that we didn’t have Foxtel, thus needing to find friends who did….that being said, I actually look forward to Mondays over most other days now (Friday, Saturday […]

Categories: Beef, Dinner, Lamb, One Pot Wonder • Tags: baking, basil, bay leaves, beef, beef cheeks, butter, carrot, cauliflower, celery, cream, dinner, garlic, Italian flat leaf parsley, onion, puree, red wine, salsa, salsa verde, slow cooking

Pork & Prawn Wonton Soup (my humble attempt)

April 11, 2013 by date with a plate.

One of my favourite cuisines would have to be Asian, I love the simplicity in much of the recipes as much as the variety of the flavours from country to country. Having journeyed to such destinations as Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand I have had a relatively decent exposure to the different cuisines and styles of cooking. Travelling through Vietnam I fell in love with Pho. Travelling through Indonesia I hunted for the perfect Soto Ayam. Travelling […]

Categories: Asian, Dinner, Pork, seafood, Soup • Tags: chili, dinner, flavour, pork, prawn, seafood, soup, wonton

I love mussels more than muscles

April 2, 2013 by date with a plate.

An unsuccessful fishing expedition on Sunday afternoon left me slightly disappointed, hungry and with a bad hankering for some seafood. So I figured that if you can’t catch it, buy it. I subsequently visited the local fish store and left with 2kgs of fresh mussels (thankfully they come already cleaned and de-bearded – convenience at its best). Although my friends were hoping to have a fish or two at the end of their lines earlier in the day – I […]

Categories: Dinner, seafood • Tags: basil, chili, dinner, flavour, Italian, mussels, Peter Evans, seafood, tomato

Bolognese – how have I done this wrong for so long?

February 26, 2013 by date with a plate.

Inspired by a recent Google adventure in search of a new recipe for the family favourite spaghetti Bolognese I stumbled (and became extremely enthused) across a traditional recipe for Bolognese Ragu. All the recipes I began sifting through went against my comforting childhood favourite….and then it hit me…I have never had a traditional Bolognese Ragu despite having been to Italy twice?! Here’s the recipe, I strongly suggest giving it a shot. The first thing you will notice is that it […]

Categories: Dinner • Tags: Bolognese Ragu, dinner, food, Italian, Pasta

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