BBQ
KFC Korean Fried Chicken
The other day I had a rushed introduction to making KFC – Korean Fried Chicken wings. Thanks to COVID lockdown, a lunch meeting moved from Gami Chicken to Zoom. I was challenged to make my own fried chicken so I did. Korean fried chicken is a serious thing, apparently. I’ve never eaten it or made…
Steamed Pork Buns
I have a goal of becoming a bun gun. That’s right, a dumpling king. It’s going to take years of practice so I might as well get started. Neil Perry’s Spice Temple is my guide. It has a great array of different kinds of dumplings with recipes for dough and filling. The other night I…
Steamed Asian Scallops
Since moving to Victoria I’ve been spoilt by seafood choices, with several markets around. A big shout of the “The Big Fish” Fish Market at Carrum Downs for fantastic fresh fish, every single day. This is the first time I’ve bought “live” scallops. This simple steamed scallop recipe comes from Ken Hom’s “Hot Wok”. It’s…
Prawn and Smoked Trout Salad
We’ve been eating a lot of seafood during very hot weather over the last few weeks. Yesterday I smoked a rainbow trout with 1/3 cup each of green tea, brown sugar and jasmine rice. I use an old wok lined with a few layers of alfoil and a circular wire rack to sit in it….
Fruit
Lemon Verbena Ice Cream
After they mentioned lemon verbena on Masterchef a hundred times, I finally decided to buy a plant when we moved to Melbourne two years ago. We made ice cream and tea. Over the first winter i thought the plant had died. It can back and flourished! Lemon verbena smells and tastes amazing. Dried leaves in…
KFC Korean Fried Chicken
The other day I had a rushed introduction to making KFC – Korean Fried Chicken wings. Thanks to COVID lockdown, a lunch meeting moved from Gami Chicken to Zoom. I was challenged to make my own fried chicken so I did. Korean fried chicken is a serious thing, apparently. I’ve never eaten it or made…
Steamed Pork Buns
I have a goal of becoming a bun gun. That’s right, a dumpling king. It’s going to take years of practice so I might as well get started. Neil Perry’s Spice Temple is my guide. It has a great array of different kinds of dumplings with recipes for dough and filling. The other night I…
Sardines on Toast
Sure, it’s more fancy than sardines on toast. The dish is based on a recipe from The Sydney Broadsheet cookbook published by the Broadsheet City Guide. I have both the Sydney and Melbourne cookbooks which are. full of excellent cafe and restaurant meals – tasty, complex, and capable for home cooks. I love sardines. Healthy…
Meat
Steamed Pork Buns
I have a goal of becoming a bun gun. That’s right, a dumpling king. It’s going to take years of practice so I might as well get started. Neil Perry’s Spice Temple is my guide. It has a great array of different kinds of dumplings with recipes for dough and filling. The other night I…
Grand Final Sausage Rolls
Today should be the Australian Rules Football Grand Final – it is always the last Saturday in September. Thanks to COVID-19 and a late start to a shortened competition, the Final is going to be a month late. Nevertheless, why not still make Grand Final Sausage Rolls. Eat some today and freeze some for next…
Feta and Lamb Gozleme
Tonight I made gozleme for the first time, and it turned out really well. I hunted my cookbooks and online for recipes, and they were all varied. Some had yeast and some didn’t. Some were flour and oil. Some included yoghurt. In the end I based it on this recipe from Gourmet Traveller. I made…
Sous Vide Moroccan Lamb
I cooked a half leg of lamb for 15 hours overnight in the souse vide water bath. I use an Anova Precision Cooker stick and a Trespade Vacuum Sealer. The cooking time came from Dale Prentice’s excellent book “At Home with Souse Vide” (stunning photos by my friend Mike Emmett and his friend Bec at…
