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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

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

Corn fritters with avocado salsa and chipotle sauce

March 10, 2014 by date with a plate.

It’s been too long in between breakfast posts, but I feel that my corn fritters will more than make up for my radio silence on morning meals. My friend Kristen and I are suckers for a good corn fritter, its one of those items on a breakfast menu that we always seems to gravitate toward. We all have our favourites, and corn fritters is ours. Give me the option to add a poached egg and I am sold. The key […]

Categories: Breakfast • Tags: avocado, chili, chipotle, coriander, corn, green chilli, lime, poached eggs, salsa, sour cream, tomato

Pork belly with sticky caramel dressing

February 17, 2014 by date with a plate.

Sunday night dinners with friends is a great way to wind down the weekend, ending it in style, with good food and great company. Always happy to put on a meal for friends, we invited two of our nearest and dearest over for my first attempt at cooking pork belly. I’ll save you any of the lead-up – the climax was a combination of pure salty delicious crunch-worthy crackling complimented by the most tender and moist meat imaginable. So yeah […]

Categories: Asian, Dinner, Pork, Roast • Tags: chili, coriander, lime, Mint, pork belly, star anise, syrup

Snapper ceviche with mango and green chilli

February 10, 2014 by date with a plate.

Hot balmy Sundays call for cool, zesty ceviche in my opinion, and that’s exactly what I put together for lunch yesterday when the inspiration hit me after browsing through the January Gourmet Traveller magazine. There’s something so utterly refreshing about ceviche, especially when paired with an ice cold beer. It also doubles as a wicked hangover cure – I put it down to the lime and chilli, they worked wonders on the boy yesterday. Ceviche, for those who haven’t yet […]

Categories: Ceviche, Lunch, seafood, Snack • Tags: chili, coconut, coconut cream, coriander, fish, gourmet traveller magazine, green chilli, lime, Mango, Pink snapper, seafood

Vietnamese rice paper rolls (prawn & avocado)

January 3, 2014 by date with a plate.

Vietnam, its people and its food are hard not to love. I spent 3 weeks there and found the worst part of my trip was leaving to come home. Vietnam is a land full of treasures, if you’ve yet to experience it – put in on your bucket list for 2014. I promise you, its worth exploring. Fresh, healthy, fast and delicious are just some of the words I would use to describe the country’s food. One of my favourite […]

Categories: Asian, Condiment, Dinner, Lunch, seafood, Snack • Tags: avocado, chili, chives, coconut, coriander, lime, Mint, prawns, rice noodles, rice paper, Vietnam, Vietnamese

Radish & celery vermicelli noodle salad

November 22, 2013 by date with a plate.

Ever the optimist, I decided to muscle up some inspiration for last night’s dinner and make what I could from what was in the fridge already. Screw going to the supermarket at 8pm at night – I was hungry, desperate and tired (not to mention lazy). That’s when the creative juices kicked in. Pork chops, some fresh veggies and dried vermicelli noodles I knew were in the pantry. This combination allowed me to rustle up something appropriate to feed two […]

Categories: Asian, Dinner, Salad • Tags: chili, coriander, cucumber, easy, lime, noodle, radish, red onion, spanish onion, spring onion, vermicelli noodles

Pepper Sauce, the Trini way

June 3, 2013 by date with a plate.

There’s something to be said for those who can handle the Habanero chilli. As someone who has never been able to enjoy chilli much beyond a Jalapeno, it is with great admiration that I watch my very dear friend Roger (Trinidadian born and bred) devour his family’s favourite condiment, Pepper Sauce. Out of love for Roger and my boyfriend Ollie, I planted a Habanero bush in my vegetable garden in the hope of producing enough of the fiery chillies to […]

Categories: Condiment • Tags: chili, easy, flavour, Habanero, hotsauce, lime, Mango, Pepper Sauce, Sauce

Corn, made sexy

March 21, 2013 by date with a plate.

I bet you thought it wasn’t possible to make the humble cob of corn sexy – but I have a recipe that does just that! It all starts with the simple fact that I’m an absolute sucker for any food that’s listed as being on “special” (a trait passed down from my dearest Dad), and so it was that after a recent Saturday morning trip to my local Farmers Market I picked up corn cobs for $1 each (on special […]

Categories: BBQ, Dinner, Salad • Tags: avocado, charred, corn, flavour, lime, salad

date with a plate.

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