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Roasted carrots with pearl barley, chickpeas & herbed crème fraîche

January 9, 2017 by date with a plate.

I blinked and suddenly I am living in Sydney, it’s 2017 and I haven’t posted in longer than I care to admit. I owe you all an apology, I have been completely neglectful of my little hobby blog, distracted by the excitement of this beautiful big city, but I have plans to rectify my lack of action in the year ahead. Plans that start immediately with getting back into the kitchen and cooking more consistently. Moving to Sydney really threw my world […]

Categories: Roast, Salad, Vegetarian • Tags: carrot, chickpea, chili, garlic, Italian flat leaf parsley, lemon, lemon zest, pearl barley

Beef rib tacos (with all the trimmings)

February 23, 2016 by date with a plate.

When life gives you leftover beef ribs, make beef rib tacos…or at least I think that’s how the saying goes? Right? Maybe not, but that’s just what I did. Ever since my boyfriend’s custom smoker arrived at our house we have been working our way through every possible cut of appropriate meat to smoke; beef ribs, pork ribs, brisket, pork shoulder, you name it and it’s on his ‘to-smoke’ list. Smoking meat can be a little hit and miss, mostly […]

Categories: BBQ, Beef, Dinner, leftovers, mid-week, Pickling & preserving • Tags: avocado, beef, chili, coriander, garlic, jalapenos, lime, mexican, onion, oregano, radish, taco, tacos

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

My Harvey Beef (not so classic) roast beef sanga

December 9, 2015 by date with a plate.

For the past month our house has been the epicentre of all things beef. Beef for dinner, beef for lunch, even beef for breakfast. But don’t get me wrong, this is a good thing, a very good thing. I have been busy cooking and reviewing Harvey Beef’s new marinated beef range. When I was asked by the team at Harvey Beef if I was up for the challenge, my enthusiastic “yes” was delivered without hesitation, not even the slightest of […]

Categories: Beef, Bread, Roast • Tags: anchovy, basil, beef, cornichons, easy, garlic, gherkins, Italian flat leaf parsley, mustard, olive oil, red wine vinegar, salsa, salsa verde, seeded mustard

Pasta with pipis

November 9, 2015 by date with a plate.

Despite living in a really great neighbourhood, I often find myself driving questionably long distances to source great produce, especially seafood. It feels like I live in a bit of a produce black-hole. There just wasn’t anything in my local area that really floated my boat with respect to good quality seafood. So when a new local small business opened its doors, I was grateful to have access to both fresh and frozen seafood. I have never thought of seafood […]

Categories: Dinner, Italian, Lunch, Pasta, seafood • Tags: chili, garlic, Italian, Italian flat leaf parsley, lemon, onion, Pasta, pipis, seafood, tomato, white wine

Celeriac soup with crispy pancetta croutons

July 15, 2015 by date with a plate.

Knobbly and a little weird, this misunderstood root vegetable is often over-looked by the everyday grocery shopper. Generally speaking, I don’t think people know how to use this vegetable, let alone what it tastes like. Celeriac tastes like a cross between celery and parsley. It can be mashed, used in soups, thinly sliced and added to a salad or even roasted. My boyfriend asked me to make this specific soup for him – he had seen it on River Cottage […]

Categories: Bread, Dinner, mid-week, Soup, Vegetarian • Tags: celeriac, garlic, leek, onion, potato, River Cottage, soup

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

Mince your own meat: simple beef burgers

April 16, 2015 by date with a plate.

I got to thinking the other day about store/supermarket bought mince and wondering what cut was used. Then realising that really, it could be anything. So I did a little research (aka Google search – what the hell did we do before the Internet?!) and felt a little guilty when it dawned on me how easy it is to mince your own – provided you have a meat grinder (perfect excuse to go buy one now). I have a Kenwood […]

Categories: BBQ, Beef, Dinner • Tags: beef, burger, eggs, garlic, meat grinder, onion

Italian sausage and lentil soup

April 8, 2015 by date with a plate.

Sick? Tired? My Italian sausage and lentil soup is a real crowd pleaser. It’s easy to make, cheap and freezes like a boss – so I tend to make large batches and keep some (quite literally) for a rainy day. Like so many good home cooking recipes, this was born from a mixture of being sick at home and resisting a trip to the shops. The result was pleasantly surprising and it’s been on the menu ever since. While technically […]

Categories: Dinner, mid-week, One Pot Wonder, Soup • Tags: asparagus, capsicum, carrot, garlic, Italian sausages, lentils, onion, tomato

Gnocchi with braised beef sauce

August 20, 2014 by date with a plate.

Just a short post today, it has been a rough couple of weeks battling the ever complicated onslaught of flu, work, personal life and trip planning – my upcoming trip to the United States is possibly the only thing keeping me sane at the moment. Counting down the days until we jet off for a month long adventure keeps me working hard through everything that’s been thrown at me lately. Sick at home, bored out of my mind (yes, there’s […]

Categories: Beef, Dinner, Lunch, Pasta • Tags: beef, braised beef, carrot, celery, garlic, gnocchi, Jamie Oliver, onion, Pasta, pearl barley, poached eggs, potato, slow cooking, tomato

Sticky rice dumplings

July 8, 2014 by date with a plate.

Exploring Asian supermarkets is always an adventure for me, I absolutely love getting lost in the aisles of foreign products and adorable servingware. I go in for a packet of dried shiitake mushrooms and somehow leave with new plates, steaming baskets, packets of deep fried shallots, aloe vera juice and anything else that sparks my interest. My lack of self-control is apparent, and a little bit fantastic. Who doesn’t love a Sunday night dumpling feast? Exploring the pages of my […]

Categories: Asian, Chicken, Dinner • Tags: banana leaves, chili, dumpling, garlic, ginger, glutinous rice, gourmet traveller magazine, lap cheong, shiitake, shiitake mushrooms, sticky rice

Fish stew Ancona-style

June 23, 2014 by date with a plate.

We don’t eat seafood nearly as much as we should, but on Sunday afternoon we spoiled ourselves with a trip to a local fish market – scoring some awesome treasures for a Sunday night feast. Oysters, fish, prawns, pipis and scallops…..I was seriously excited to get home and get cooking! Recently I bought Antonio Carluccio’s book, The Collection, and was continuously drawn to his Fish stew Ancona-style – no matter how aimlessly I thought I was skipping through the pages, […]

Categories: One Pot Wonder, seafood, Special Occasion • Tags: Antonio Carluccio, chili, fish, Fish stew, garlic, Italian, Italian flat leaf parsley, onion, pipis, prawn, scallop, seafood, tomato

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