Posts tagged “food”
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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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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
[video width="500" height="300" mp4="https://media.contractorpermie.com/blog/764053/VIDEO0051.mp4"][/video] Download VIDEO0051.3gp 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…