Posts tagged "Food & Drink"
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Hot sauce
I just bottled my latest fermented hot sauce. 30 bottles using Andy's recipe. Same as last year except last year I used red jalapenos and this year I'm using "long red" chillis. I have some habaneros…
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Adventures in sous vide and smoking
I did my second crack at sous vide pulled pork using Serious Eats' great recipe. First time was great though my smoker gave up soon after getting it going, so I finished it using a foil-wrapped packet…
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Kristen Hersh at The Vanguard
Last Friday night we got to see Kristen Hersh of Throwing Muses perform her solo work at The Vanguard in Newtown. I haven't been to this venue since the 1990s when it was "Top Gun". Hersh was incredib…
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Cook tech: Eat Your Books
I love to cook and so I have a lot of cookbooks. This brings about a problem. Much as I love leafing through cookbooks, sometimes you need to work out what to cook more quickly. And I'm often trying t…
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A month without booze
It's March which means my February booze fast is over. I tried a lot of alcohol free beer over February and there were some real gems amongst them. The real standouts were the Vandestreek Playground I…
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Booze free beer: Sobah Lemon Aspen Pilsener
Sobah use bush foods as flavourings with mixed results. The Pepperberry isn't bad: an interesting flavour in the mix for a beer. The lemon aspen, not so good. It tasted like toilet cleaner, to be hone…
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Booze free beer: Erdinger Weissbrau Alcoholfrei
When holly was pregnant we drank a bit of this so I bought a bunch more for this booze free spell. It's still good, though now that I've discovered better it's not as amazing. Styled as a wheat beer,…
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Booze free beer: Heaps Normal Quiet XPA
This is the way. A beer without booze that is no disappointment. It's delicious. Refreshing. Full of body. I'm buying a case! Only downside: it costs the same as high-end craft beer! $80 case + $10 sh…
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Booze free beer: Hawkesbury Prohibition Pale Ale
Ugh. This beer was just plain off. Undrinkable. And on such a hot night last night too!
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Booze free beer: Upflow Pale Ale
Pale Ale tends to be the most common craft beer style and so tends to be the yardstick you measure against. This was always going to be a tough one for alcohol free beer. Upflow have got damn close he…
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Booze free beer: Bakalar Non-Alcoholic Dry Hopped Lager
Not a bad attempt at a lager. Still ends up with that unique thin flavour you get with many of these brews but this one has more body than most. The hoppiness is strong and in your face, which helps.…
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Booze free beer: Upflow Stout
I think this one may be my favourite yet. You could easily drink this and not realise it's got no booze, which is probably only something you could get away with in a dark beer. Fortunately I love dar…
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Booze free beer: Sobah Pepperberry IPA & Big Drop Brewing Pine Trail Pale Ale
Catching up from last night's brews that Holly and I shared. These were both excellent. The Sobah one had a bit of an odd smell from the pepperberry but that's a feature of their brews, Australian nat…
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Booze free beer: Sobah Finger Lime Cerveza
Dry and refreshing but not much going on. I can't taste the finger lime at all. It's acceptable but nothing special.
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Booze free beer: Nort Refreshing Ale
Nice and crisp this one. A bit lacking in body but good flavour and certainly refreshing.
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Booze free beer: UpFlow Session IPA and Flint Sukareki (сухариків)
Wow this IPA is the business! Fruity hop aroma. Deep bitterness. Body and malt. This is the benchmark now! There's a few other UpFlow brews in the cupboard so I'm looking forward to those now. Also ni…
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Booze free beer: Mornington Free
This describes itself as a "Non-Alc Pale Ale". I'm not sure it hits the notes I'd expect from a pale ale. Not enough body. However it's quite refreshing, light flavoured without being incipid. Perfect…
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Booze free beer: Eggenberg Freibier
This Austrian number gets the take on lager right. Heavy, metallic bittering hops and a rich maltiness. Lager is hard to get right with alcohol but without its super tough. This one nails it. I'd drin…
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Booze free beer: Big Drop Brewing Uptown Craft Lager
Being a lager, this isn't going for the fruity delights of a pale ale or similar. To survive being alcohol free a lager has to make up for the lack of body somehow. This one tries to make do with some…
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Booze free beer: Warsteiner 0% and Budvar Nealko
Meh. Boring and bland. You're not fooling anyone here.
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Booze free beer: Ochakovskiy kvass (Очаковский квас)
I rode to Bondi Beach yesterday for a nice leisurely swim in the hot weather. I try to do this ride once a week leaving early on Tuesday mornings but the weather in 2021 hasn't been helpful. It's a re…
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Booze free beer: Kronenbourg Blanc
Kronenbourg is a terrible beer that was available everywhere in the UK when we lived there. It's bloody awful stuff, but still better than the equally ubiquitous Fosters. Once we discovered Real Ale t…
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Booze free beer: Peroni Libera
There's a good chunk of middle-of-the-road mainstream beer brands in my selection and this tastes as expected. It's a lot like the Cooper's 0% beer. Lots of dry hops to give a crisp taste but not much…
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Dry February alcohol free beers: Vandestreek Playground Non Alcoholic IPA
Holly and I are having a break from booze for the month of February. It's a difficult month cos it's often got the hottest stretches of weather all year, so not having a cold beer at the end of an esp…
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My daughter, the reader
It's been amazing watching the youngest slowly get better at reading, then suddenly become hooked. The last week she's had her nose in books at every opportunity. It feels wrong telling her to put the…
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Passata Day 2016
In which we turn 215kg of tomatoes into delicious bottled tomato pulp Yesterday we did what has become an annual tradition, turning a bunch of tomatoes into passata, a tomato pulp with the seeds and s…
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Awesome Q
For Mother's Day I did some racks of ribs in the smoker. Mostly followed this recipe but used a commercial BBQ sauce for the final basting. They turned out amazing. Lip smacking good. No leftovers. Se…
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5:2: a diet for greedy people
I've never been a skinny guy. The fittest I've ever been, playing rugby in my mid-teens, I was still chunky bloke. Helped me avoid being bullied. As an adult, my weight has gradually crept up. Finally…
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No Marque, you can shove your environmental "concerns"
"Due to environmental concerns Marque Restaurant no longer uses bottled mineral water. In this regard we have installed a chilled, filtered, carbonated water system. To support this initiative $5 per…
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Our new local: Young Henry, The Cure's a Forest, brisket sandwich and a kid play room
The Henson opened tonight in the old "Henson Park Hotel" premises around the corner, after a short hiccup with their license. They've done a great job, stripping back some of the covers over the origi…
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Vodafone Foundation cooks for OzHarvest #charityleave
We spent the day cooking for charity. Lots of fun. I helped on chicken cacciatore and another team did amazing apple calzones. Good stuff and quite fun. My wimpy office hands scored some nice blisters…
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On the anatomy of thrift
This beautiful series of instructional web videos teaches how to butcher pigs in a relaxed and fun hipster style. These guys would undoubtedly ride fixies and use Macs. Or at least their customers wou…
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Chinese New Year MeatUp
Amazing tasting menu at Bar H in Surry Hills. The pork buns were amazing and apparently on the regular menu.
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Shakshuka
I first ate shakshuka the morning after an outdoor rave near Sydney, cooked by a bunch of Israeli psy-trance types. It was the perfect refuel after a night dancing under the stars. Tomato, onion, egg…
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The pig is on
Xmas in July's main attraction is enspittened and cooking. Yum!
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Meat overdose @ Momofuku Ssam Bar Title
via eatshowandtell.com Ever since reading about David Chang and his restaurants, I've been keen to visit. The cookbook is excellent, if a little daunting. Here's some vicarious food porn.
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Pork with apple and cider gravy
Last night we had Matt & Maz around for dinner, a lovely roasted piece of pork shoulder from Urban Food Market, served with roast potatoes, onions and turnips. For a sauce to accompany the pork I'd st…
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Mirragong wagyu meatup
Sensational 7 course degustation at Cotton Duck in Surry Hills. I'm stuffed. Time for bed.
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Recent reading: gambling politics, nose to tail, non-rail public transport and the Chernobyl death toll
I've been using Instapaper to push longer articles to my Kindle for later reading. The tool isn't without some significant limitations but it works well enough for me. It's great to no longer skip rea…
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Fishing, Jinja Safari and Cloud Control gig
Last night Holly and I had a grandmother looking after Louis and tickets to a gig. Date night! Lots of fun was had. First, dinner at Arisun, the latest stop on our quest for the best Korean Fried Chic…
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's deep-fried delights recipes
Forget the health police for once and tuck into Hugh's yummy churros. Hot chocolate essential... Photograph: Colin Campbell for the Guardian via guardian.co.uk Phwoar! Hugh looks at the joys of deep f…
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Busy weekend
We had a very busy weekend. Saturday Linn, Sean, Cam and I put up plasterboard in the shoffice (shed/office). Lots of hard graft all day and much much appreciation for my helpers who slogged long and…
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Serious barbecue
The Serious Eats Barbecue Style Guide Posted by James Boo, February 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM via seriouseats.com This slideshow of amazing barbecue is very inspiring. I'd love to do a road trip through the…
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Yay for babysitters
We got to have an adult night out thanks to Grandma. Dinner at Spice Temple then Holy Fuck at Sydney Festival's Becks Festival Bar. Spice Temple was fantastic. The only baseball bat in the arsenal see…
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Beers with Hanesy in Shellharbour
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Pulled pork
This weekend I made pulled pork again. It's such a great treat and uses insanely cheap meat. I pretty much followed this recipe from Kidspot, with about $15 worth of pork shoulder and a bit of a mixtu…
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Woolworths gaming unit pricing
In the ethnic food section paprika is priced per 100g. In the spice section, per 10g. Slimy.
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Sun, beer, friends
We had a wonderful afternoon down at the Concordia Club, drinking German beer, eating schnitzel and pork knuckle, hanging out in the sun. A fantastic, lazy Sunday. In the photos are Matt's pork knuckl…
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Malt whisky ginger cake recipe
via guardian.co.uk I made this over the weekend with some of the lovely Bruichladdich "Peat" multi vintage whisky that Louis received for his first birthday. It was amazingly light, with a very comple…
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Seaside afternoon
The weather started out bad so we headed to a fantastic kid-friendly pub. Afterwards we took a drive around the coast and the sun came out at Eastborne so we were able to add another leg to our NZ pla…
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Baking with hefeweizen yeast
Wheat beers such as hefeweizen, weissbier and wit are all light beers made from a mix of malted barley and wheat. In southern Germany the typical hefeweizen is fermented with a non-flocculating yeast,…
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Malt Shovel Brewery tour
Matt and I just did a tour followed by beer and food matching. First taste is the new Noir Stout with a hint if licorice. Delicious!
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Fat Man in a White Hat
I discovered Bill Buford having watching Fat Man in a White Hat, a seemingly-truncated BBC4 series broadcast earlier this year. It featured a passionate and highly-articulate American guy who'd thrown…
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Uncle Arch's Cookbook
One for the breakfast menu: Banana Rolls Cut bananas and peel, wrap each in a piece of bacon and dip in eggs and crumbs Cook in a quick oven for 10 minutes. From a sister housewife in NZ. via unclearc…
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To Enhance Flavor, Just Add Water
Just to see what spirits themselves are like with no alcohol burn at all, I diluted a number of them with plain water by three to one, to cut their alcohol levels to the equivalent of a low-alcohol wi…
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Babi Guling: Balinese suckling pig
We finally made it beyond the immediate surrounds of the hotel and out to Ubud where we visited the legendary Ibu Oka for Babi Guling, roast suckling pig. it was... sensational!
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Bacon & egg pie with chilli jam
At the little cafe on Unwins Bridge Road around the corner from Sydenham Station. Louis had mashed banana, prunes and yoghurt. I had the amazing bacon and egg pie, fresh from the oven. Wow! Cafe sound…
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Just spent up big on Mexican & Indian food
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Breakfast at Martini's
Louis and I have done swimming, now brekkie at my fave Newtown cafe. I've been coming here for, I think, at least 13 years.
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Food: Have you...
Just discovered a really interesting food blog, STUDIOKITCHEN, written by chef Shola Olunloyo. It's got lots of cool technical experiments, and good ideas. Most interesting post I've found so far is t…
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Smokey lamb
On the weekend I finally got around to trying out the new smoker box I bought for the barbecue. It's just a small stainless steel box designed to hold some wet wood chips, with a couple of holes to al…
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Pea Pretz!
One of the good things about working in the CBD is the Asian food. At the bottom of World Square, where I work, is an Asian supermarket. I'm enjoying finding all the weird and wacky snacks. Today's di…
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Great food, I won't be back
Le Pain Quotidien, corner of Fitzroy and Bourke Streets, Surry Hills Holly, Rachel and I popped into this restaurant a week or so ago before heading up to the football stadium for a dismal Sydney FC m…
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Comfort food: ramen
I've had an upset stomach the last few days, even had yesterday off work. Not very pleasant, and I missed the Melbourne Cup festivities. To help recover, I've been eating quite bland food, without spi…
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Bibimbap!
My work moved into the city today, after a year or so in Forest Lodge. The really big advantage is that I can get bibimbap for lunch from my favourite little Korean joint which is just across the road…
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Dining with food bloggers
I really enjoy Grab Your Fork but gee, going out for dinner with her must be a bit annoying. Those gorgeous photos of the food don't take themselves! In this post she records a Yum Cha with a bunch of…
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Kidneys in sherry and cream
I've got some mates coming around tonight for offal, beer, wine, whisky and poker. A boys' night, with SWMBO banished for the evening. I've just bought some lamb kidneys, sherry and cream, and plan to…
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Oscillate Wildly review
As mentioned yesterday, Holly and I managed to get a booking at Oscillate Wildly for last night, our ten year anniversary. I'd attempted to book back in May, but they were already booked out. Fortunat…
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Oscillate Wildly for dinner
Just got a call to offer me a table at Oscillate Wildly tonight. I'd attempted to book months ago for tonight and it was already booked out. Yay! I've wanted to eat at this place for ages. Review some…
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Good beer, bad chicken
A few weeks ago I got an email from the Malt Shovel Brewery about a beer and food tasting at their brew pub on King Street Wharf. Best thing, of course, was the price: free. I signed myself and Holly…
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Mmmmm KFC
Helen Yee reviews Dashi Korean Cafe and Restaurant and its Korean Fried Chicken. Yummy! Definitely have to check this one out. Our favourite Korean in London, Bi Won on Coptic Street just off New Oxfo…
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Rotisserie chicken, by necessity
Last night we had a few mates around for dinner to celebrate the bathroom being done, and thank our hosts who put us up while our house was without a toilet. I planned to do a roast chicken with all t…
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Barons Lemon Myrtle Witbier
Pretty much every time I see a new wheat beer I haven't tried, I buy it and give it a go. Barons is a pretty new little brewery in Sydney but I've been very impressed with their pale ale and ESB, both…
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Simon and Holly: greengrocers to the stars
We're in this little fruit and veg co-op with a bunch of mates. Our turn to head out early in the morning to Flemington came up, and here's all the veg divided up. It's a great time for produce, with…
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Un-big-worded milk
Shopping late on Friday night, the only light milk available was this organic brand. Now organic milk is the only organic product that's been shown to have health benefits. The animal husbandry advant…
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Puy Lentils
I've been hunting for decent lentils since returning to Australia. In London I used to buy the lovely Puy Lentils (lentilles vertes du Puy) which are amazing green lentils. The key is that, unlike oth…
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$5 steak!
Now this makes being back in Sydney quite worthwhile. Last night we went for dinner at The Lansdowne and I ordered a $5 steak. Could you imagine what a £5 steak would be like? Well the $5 steak was de…
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Fajita
Last night I made fajita for dinner. Apparently it's supposed to be the diaphragm muscle of a cow, but we had some rump steak in the freezer that needed using, which I cut into strips. I marinated the…
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This is just nuts
My colleague just pulled out one of these health food bar things called Just Nuts. I was skeptical as it looked like more than that. When I turned over the package, the first item on the ingredients l…
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Bulk egg poaching: success
Yesterday I asked about this bulk poaching method in McGee. No responses so I had to go with it anyway. Turns out I was cooking Eggs Benedict for eleven people. The bulk method worked beautifully, as…
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McGee's bulk egg poaching method
I'm cooking breakfast for our little food co-op tomorrow. Once a fortnight, we send someone out to Flemington to buy fruit and veg for the 11 households. This means we get a staggering quantity of stu…
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Brewing again
Now that the weather has cooled down to reasonable levels, I put a brew on yesterday. Nothing spectacular, a Cooper's Mexican Cerveza kit with a kilo of Cooper's "Brew Enhancer 1". I'm planning to put…
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The Beer Box
Last night I finished my woodworking course at Sydney Community College (old Leichardt High School). My project was to make a box that will keep my beer fermenter cool, as our house gets to very high…
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Homebrew shop in Newtown
I've just paid a visit to my homebrew shop in Newtown and I'm quite impressed. They're very nice guys and very knowledgable. Served me a lovely example of their brews too. Just about to put a wheat be…
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Cooking books are not for bedtime
I read some of In Search of Perfection as described yesterday before going to sleep last night. Not a good idea. I woke up craving fish and chips. Not really breakfast food now, is it?
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In Search of Perfection
I've been working my way through Heston Blumenthal's book In Search of Perfection, which accompanies the TV show of the same name. Blumenthal is something of a food obsessive, to put it lightly. His t…
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They're a weird mob
These Australians are a bit weird. Just got back from the supermarket and nearly all the sausages are beef sausages. That's just wrong! Especially when they say things like "traditional" on the packag…
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1999 Peter Lehmann Grenache
Back in 1999, we were drinking the fantastic 1998 Peter Lehmann Grenache. It was in our price range ($12 at the time) and very tasty. We kept going back to the bottle shop and buying more until they r…
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Summer Lamb Couscous Salad
This is a quick and easy summer salad that I've been making for years. It's tasty, healthy and dead easy to make. I find it's particularly suited to those long, hot summer evenings when you don't want…
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Crown Seal Longnecks
Coopers have gone back to using crown seal caps for their longneck bottles. This is a real boon for homebrewers, who for some years haven't been able to buy anything but imported beer that can be refi…
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Quick and easy fish
Holly has recently discovered she likes smoked mackerel. I've been eating it for years because it has many advantages: cheap, not endangered, tasty and being an oily fish it's got lots of the good stu…
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Slow cooked chicken
Yesterday we had Scott and Katie around for late lunch. I cooked up some chicken I had in the freezer. This was an old bird I'd bought for coq au vin, organic but old so it had used those muscles. Chu…
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Moblog
Not sure if the steam comes out but here's Hanesy at lunch. Having a ball but could use some snow.
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Moblog
I went out this morning but came back in before lunch. Too sore from all my stacks on icy runs yesterday. Snow has improved things overnight and there's more starting now. Gonna go hard tomorrow on th…
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Store cupboard sausage and cider casserole
There is one consolation to the weather getting cold: I get to make more delicious but ridicuously easy casseroles thrown together with whatever I have lying around. Last night was one such night. Mos…
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River Cafe
Holly took me out to the River Cafe for dinner tonight. Absolutely brilliant feed. I had squid with chilli and rocket, Holly had prosciutto with charantais melon for entrees. Mine was perfect, not so…
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Katsu!
A discussion on london.food about katsu gave me the idea of making a katsu curry tomorrow night when Scott and Katie come around for dinner. These are the ingredients I bought from the Japanese and Ko…
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I made sushi!
Well it's not going to win any awards, but my first attempt at sushi worked alright. Certainly tasted good. The wasabi I bought turns out to be insanely hot. Nose tinglingly.
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Sushi!
After sushi for dinner last night at the excellent Yoshi Sushi, I realised how much I miss good sushi. It's rare and expensive in this town. Yoshi is probably the best price/quality balance I've found…
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Sushi!
After sushi for dinner last night at the excellent Yoshi Sushi, I realised how much I miss good sushi. It's rare and expensive in this town. Yoshi is probably the best price/quality balance I've found…
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Regrowth Blonde
Just brewed a quick-and-dirty beer for my birthday party keg. Cooper's Canadian Blonde kit, 350g wheat malt, 350g dark malt (what I had already opened in the fridge), 300g glucose, Brupaks Flavapak be…
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Amazing chocolate cake
On the weekend I made this amazing chocolate cake from Nigella Lawson's site for Fiona's birthday. Fantastic cake, really rich and yummy. Went down well. I did the orange-flavoured option and it worke…
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Becoming an omnivore
For most of my life, I have despised tomatoes. Tomato soup, ketchup, pasta sauce and the like are all fine. Just raw tomatoes, I've always hated. For the last year or so, I've been trying to work myse…
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Funky Porcini
The fantastic cheese stall at North End Road market had a fantastic thing on offer this weekend. Giant 250g tubs of dried porcini mushrooms for £5. Incredible. So last night I cooked a mushroom casser…
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Vietnamese Mint
With the weather warming up, Holly has been getting her herb seedlings going. Last year we had a fantastic crop of chives, basil and oregano. Considering the small space available (one window sill) we…
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Union Coffee Roasters
I normally buy Cafe Direct 's fair trade coffee but there was a special offer last week on Union Coffee Roasters ' coffee. This morning I opened the first packet and it's absolutely sensational. Reall…
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Marx and kimchee
Yesterday we went on a Marx walking tour of Soho with Scott and the Trots associated with his flatmate Hannah. An excellent tour which he'll be repeating on Mayday apparently. Lots of interesting hist…
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Cider and Dark Lager
Just bottled the cider I made on the cider making weekend last year. It's delicious, though perhaps a little too much tanin. I bottled 20 bottles straight, which will be flat scrumpy-style. The remain…
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Nut brown ale
Just brewed up a Munton's Nut Brown Ale kit. Added 200g pale malt, 900g dark malt and boiled a handful of the cheap, crappy Fuggles hops for a while. Should be good. Following a successful brew, I cra…
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Juniper?
Anyone know where to get juniper berries? We're off to Scotland this weekend with a bunch of friends. We'll be cooking up eight pounds of venison and the recipe calls for juniper berries...
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New edition of McGee's On Food and Cooking
A new edition of Harold McGee's amazing book On Food and Cooking has been released. The original book is an amazingly detailed and interesting look at how food and cooking works from a scientific poin…
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Another Belgian Wit
I brewed up another Belgian Wit kit on Monday night, this time a Brewferm Tarwebier. I didn't add any orange peel or coriander this time, just to see, and used only glucose. We'll see how it goes. I t…
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Wheat beer and IPA
Just bottled my exceptionally bitter IPA. Brewed from a Coopers IPA kit and it's certainly damn bitter. Should be nice when it's ready. Also just cracked into my Belgian Wit which I thought was going…
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Cider making weekend
Over the weekend, Scott and I went cider making in the Forest of Dean. Was a great weekend away in beautiful countryside and we learnt the pleasures of making traditional cider. We also got to bring b…
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Suck-in-your-cheeks bitter!
Put the Coopers IPA in the bucket yesterday. I boiled up a huge couple of handfuls of Fuggles hops for half an hour to try and get a bit more bite in. Fuggles is, supposedly, an aroma hop and I got th…
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Coopers IPA
Just doing my water treatment (boil it all, nothing more) and yeast starter for my next brew, a Coopers India Pale Ale which I'll brew up tomorrow. Will make according to directions with 1kg glucose f…
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Xmas beer in the bucket
After quite a long break over the Summer, I've finally started brewing again. On Monday night I put a Woodeforde's Wherry all malt kit on. I'm gonna keg this one and have it for xmas day at Rachel's p…
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Dark wheat beer
This week the Great British Beer Festival has been on at Olympia, which is very close to our house. I think my favourite has been the dark German wheat beer I had last night. Delicious! Might see if I…
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Canadian blonde bottled
I bottled the Canadian Blonde last night. Should be a nice, light beer with loads of hop aroma. I bottled with 100g glucose priming and a handful of Fuggles hops boiled in for a few minutes. Tasted pr…
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Wow that was quick!
I brewed a Coopers Canadian Blonde kit on Sunday night with 500g glucose and 500g pale malt. This morning the yeast foam was all gone and I was worried something was wrong, so I chucked in another dry…
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Asian food madness
Yesterday Holly, Kev, Marg and I went out to Oriental City in Colindale. This is a huge asian (or, as they say here "oriental") food complex with a massive multicultural supermarket, food court and sh…
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Wit bottled, Canadian blonde on the way
I bottled the Belgian Wit yesterday. It's tasting great already, and can only get better. I must have messed up my measurements of the original and final gravity, as they make no sense. Either that or…
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Belgian wit in the bucket
Over the weekend I made up a Hoegaarden-style belgian wit ale, in the style of Graeme's fabulous recipe, the results of which tried while we were in Oz. Muntons Connoisseur wheat beer kit 1kg light ma…
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Brewing again
I finally got all my brewing kit over to our new pad (thanks Jamie!) so I can start brewing again. Last night I got the first batch underway. A Cooper's Brewmaster Pilsener kit. Nothing fancy in the m…
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Bread!
I've long harboured an interest in breadmaking. I eat a lot of the stuff and really appreciate the good stuff. When an old flatmate had a bread maker, I was very very happy. I'd always vaguely conside…
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Hojicha
Many years ago, my mate Martin introduced me to a Japanese tea style called Hojicha. It's made by roasting the leaves and twigs of the tea plant. The roasting gives it a distinctly nutty flavour, and…
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Sustainable fish consumption?
Recently I've noticed a few guides to the fish you can sustainably eat coming out. There was one for the East coast of Australia recently, though I can't remember the link. This one covers the West co…
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Yummy strawberry tart!
I made a delicious strawberry tart on Saturday, pictured here. The recipe I used was this one with the refinement of turning the strawberries the other way and glazing them with a mixture of hot lemon…
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Norkfolk Nog is amazing
I made a premium kit called Woodeforde's Norfolk Nog back at the start of November and stuck it in a pressure barrel with 100g extra dark malt. It's the beer I've been setting aside for Xmas Day. I ju…
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Strawberry Tart Full Recipe
What is it about recipes that the moment I link to them, they disappear off the web? Well fortunately Google kept hold of this one, so I bring you the recipe, with my variations included. Strawberry T…
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Chocolate self-saucing pudding
This chocolate pudding makes it's own sauce and is delicious with cream or ice cream. The preparation time is about five minutes and the results are awesome. Perfect for a chilly evening when you coul…
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Skippy is good for you, good for the planet.
I love kangaroo meat. It's just fabulous. It tastes great in Thai curries, works amazingly as a steak with beetroot and would probably work in every other situation where you use beef. Kangaroo has ot…