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Cajun Chicken Salad

October 29, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

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This worked really well, despite my initial doubts. Chicken marinated in lime juice and coriander leaves, then fried in cajun spices. Salad of radicchio leaves, red onion slices, cherry tomatoes, sliced snow peas, mandarin slices, radish slices, home-made feta, baby basil leaves. Orange juice squeezed over the top. Sea salt. Drizzled with orange-infused balsamic vinegar which is to die for. I would make it again.

Filed Under: Poultry, Salads

Christmas Dinner

December 26, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Christmas-dinner

Christmas dinner is something of a gastronomic event in our house.

thai-prawn-saladWe decided to have the entree as lunch instead of with the evening meal. BBQ prawns marinated overnight in lemon and lime juice, garlic, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, chilli, black pepper and prawn oil. Served with a salad of cos lettuce, charred baby capsicum, cherry tomatoes, sliced zucchini and avocado and a dressing of palm sugar, fish sauce, lemon juice and diced chilli.

Here’s the dinner menu, served with Bird in Hand Sparkling Pinot Noir.

Spiced Duck Breast with Cherry Sauce
This started with an Ottolenghi recipe (from his book “Ottolenghi“), with the duck marinated overnight in a spice mix of crushed fennel and cumin seeds, pepper and salt. I made a duck with red wine sauce base from a Masterchef recipe (vol 2. p144). Then giving Ottolenghi a twist I added a few star anise and about 15 cherries and cooked it down. This worked really well…. 

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Duck with Blood Orange and Star Anise

September 27, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

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Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi are my favourite chefs at the moment. Not only are Ottolenghi’s restaurants famous, the cookbooks are sensational. Here’s our second experiment with blood orange.

One my aims on this blog is to share my own inventions, but also to share one great recipe from one of the cookbooks on my shelves and encourage you to go an buy it!

Here’s the recipe on his website. It’s the kind of thing that you’d expect from Kylie Kwong, except that she uses blood plums.

The website has lots of sensational recipes here.

I served it on top of a carrot and sweet potato mash, with asparagus and Jerusalem artichokes, and a chilli as garnish. Very, very yummy.

spiced-cooked-duck

Filed Under: Middle Eastern, Poultry

Duck Prosciutto

September 27, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

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I’ve just made by first batch of duck prosciutto, thanks to a simple recipe in Feast Magazine (Issue 36, October 2014). Tastes excellent.

Duck Prosciutto
 
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Author: Feast Magazine
Recipe type: --
Cuisine: European
Ingredients
  • Two 40cm muslin squares
  • Kitchen string
  • Wire rack
  • 2 Duck breasts
  • 750 g Coarse sea salt
  • 1 tbsp Fennel seeds (crushed)
  • 1 tbsp Coriander seeds (crushed)
  • 1 tbps White sugar
  • 1 tsp Black peppercorns
  • 5 x 5 cm Orange peel strips
  • 8 Thyme sprigs
  • 8 Sage leaves
Instructions
  1. Rinse duck under cold water and dry with paper towels. Combine salt, fennel seeds, coriander seeds, sugar, black peppercorns and orange peel in a bowl. Find a container that will fit the mixture and the duck snugly. Put halt of salt mixture in container, add duck breasts, then the other half of the mixture, Make sure that all of the duck is well covered, and ad more salt if necessary. Cover and refrigerate for 48 hours.
  2. Rinse duck well under cold running water and dry with paper towel. Place half of the thyme and sage leaves on each piece of muslin. Place each piece of duck skin side down of a piece of muslin. Wrap duck in cloth and tie with kitchen string.
  3. Place duck on a wire rack in the middle of your refrigerator for at least 2 weeks. Ensure that there is good airflow around the duck and turn it every couple of days. Once opened, it will keep for up to 2 weeks.
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I now cook on Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, having moved recently from the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. The region is similar to the Mediterranean, with temperate climate, fertile hills, nearby ocean, wonderful local vegetables, fruit, wine and meat produced locally. Meanwhile our Adelaide Hills garden has cherry, peach, almond, citrus, olive, pomegranate and fig trees which are suffering neglect! Cooking has been a growing passion for me, about connecting culture, creativity, community and spirit.

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