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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

Crab, fennel and chilli linguine

January 5, 2015 by date with a plate.

Crabbing is a common pastime is Australia during the hot Summer months, and thank goodness because on Saturday Ollie and his friends returned to the house with eight glorious blue swimmer crabs for dinner. They graciously allowed me to select the menu and I opted for a classic, no fuss pasta dish of crab, fennel and chilli. I did consider making fresh pasta for this dish (and probably should have), but when its 39°C outside you really lose the ability […]

Categories: Dinner, Pasta, seafood • Tags: chili, crab, fennel, lemon, Pasta

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

Gnocchi with pancetta, tomato & basil sauce

June 16, 2014 by date with a plate.

Lazily wandering through our local grocer yesterday, the boy asked me if I could make gnocchi for dinner – considering he bought me a potato ricer months ago and I haven’t used it yet, I figured it was a decent request. Two potatoes, a small block of pancetta and a handful of basil later we were pretty much set for dinner. Gnocchi is deceptively easy to make and requires few ingredients – perfect. I think the key to a good […]

Categories: Dinner, Lunch, Pasta • Tags: basil, gnocchi, Italian, onion, pancetta, Pasta, potato, potato gnocchi, potato ricer, tomato

Cheat’s Pumpkin, Ricotta and Sage Ravioli

May 31, 2013 by date with a plate.

Yes, I can make my own pasta. Yes, the results are so much more rewarding than packet pasta. No, I don’t have time tonight… So let’s be honest, I don’t want to labour over dinner after a long day at work, I want convenience where I can get it and I don’t want to sacrifice on quality. So for my cheat’s version of ravioli I use fresh store bought lasagne sheets – not frozen, not dried….fresh. Sourced from a local […]

Categories: Dinner, Pasta • Tags: brown butter sauce, Pasta, pumpkin, ravioli, ricotta, sage, vegetarian

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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