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Mushrooms and Breakfast!
Part of exploration with breakfast I could not ignore the fact that mushrooms where my favourite ingredient to a successful breakfast. All the places I had encountered did mushrooms in some way or other and I really wanted to experiment.
Getting decent mushrooms is hard. Anyone that knows anything about mushrooms knows that compared to our European [...]
Breakfast
Buttered Spinach on toast
Spinach is considered a rich source of iron and calcium. It taste great by itself and easily infused with flavours. You will need the following to produce something of your own
Read More..>>Cooking the Perfect Steak
Now cooking a slab of meat is not hard, what is hard about it is cooking it perfectly. To me cooking a steak is like cooking a piece meat can be the most difficult thing any cook/chef can do. It is about balance, perfecting the right amount of heat and right about of time on [...]
Read More..>>Cooking with eggs
The most amazing thing about eggs is that they are so versatile. There are so many things you can do with them and add them too. Yet you can have them on there own since there are so many ways to cook them.There are a so many combinations of recipes and ingredients you can but [...]
Read More..>>More Soup
It is ok to use canned crab meat, many people have an aversion to using crab meat that comes from a can. Regardless this is a variation from a chicken soup. Hopefully you have an already created stock from chicken bones. You should also use already cooked chicken meat either brought from your local takeaway [...]
Read More..>>Soups for winter series
Winter is really a time for soups and while I have many soup recipes I really enjoy making this easy to master vegetables soup. It’s a wonderfully rich soup with plenty of easy to source ingredients and its vegetarian friendly.
Vegetable soup
4L cups Water
2L cups Vegetables stock
3 cups chopped celery with leaves
2 finely chopped onions
2 finely [...]
3 course recipe
1. Pan fried Scallops w Daikon, Snow Pea sprouts and Lemon aioli
5-6 Scallops per person
100g Snow pea sprouts
1 large daikon radish
4 eggs
1 cup cold press olive oil
Zest of 1 lime
Juice of 2 limes
Salt/Pepper
White wine vinegar
Salt and pepper your scallops, make sure you coat the scallops and also dress them in olive oil. Leave aside for [...]
Read More..>>sauces
so i was doing bit of research on sauces and its quite amazing the lengths that chef’s have in the past and in the present gone to make sauces. its amazing the level of detail and process that go into making some sauces. while some sauces are as easy as making gravy from the residue [...]
Read More..>>barramundi in a pepper sauce w fennel, rocket
barramundi white flesh is delicate, mild-flavoured, and relatively boneless. its my favourite fish to cook with as it can be flavoured easily, is quite hardy and practically boneless.
you can buy fillets or the full fish and fillet yourself, each fish will give you enough for 4 if you get a large fish. any decent fish monger should [...]
making your own pasta!
making your own pasta can be both rewarding and a pain the arse.
for this exercise (and it is exercise, be prepared to do some work) you will need;
flour
eggs
salt
water
pasta roller (about 20-40aud)
This is actually quite time consuming if you want to get it right. there are number of things you can do with pasta but that [...]
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