Archive for the 'mundane' Category
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 [...]
Im Back!
After a very long hiatus I am back.
Its been a long 6 months, having to move out, find new work and working my arse off for the last 6 months but having no time for anything else really sucks. So I finally quit to the dismay of my girlfriend. Hope is not lost as I [...]
Buying organic
Knowing your recipes and cooking them can be great fun. But short of sounding like a girl, my favourite thing about cooking is finding the right ingredients. I love searching for the right produce. Great food is not totally about great recipes but great produce.
Find great produce is not hard in Sydney, in fact its [...]
kiwi fruit
I love the kiwi fruit, it is a fantastic fruit that is under used throughout cooking. It has been reduced to a mere fruit eaten with a spoon, a rare topping for ice cream and a meat tenderizer. But there are so many things that can be done with this awesome fruit.
Firstly the fruit originated [...]
3 course meal
So I have been cooking for the family every week experimenting with different ingredients.
This week on the menu
1. Pan fried Scallops w Daikon, Snow Pea sprouts and Lemon aioli
2. Pan seared Yellow Fin Tuna w Spanish onions, Scallions and White wine vinaigrette
3. Venison w Asparagus, Snow Pea Sprouts and Red Wine Chocolate Sauce
Pictures links below
http://www.guild-tbg.net/download/pictures/Scallops.jpg
http://www.guild-tbg.net/download/pictures/Tuna.jpg
http://www.guild-tbg.net/download/pictures/Venison.jpg
The [...]
fish sauce
so while at dinner a few nights back with the family, mum tells me of this chef in the US that won a cooking competition with the special use of fish sauce. while i have tried to unsuccessfully google this new story, i have wondered at the power of fish sauce.
this saturday i’m going to [...]
failure
so i failed this weekend. the panna cotta, it failed so hard it was inedible. regardless ill be trying again. its obvious that cooking deserts are a science and without exact measurements things go wrong, horribly wrong.
the reason why i say deserts are a science is that you really do need to pay attention to a [...]
things to make in the future
sitting at my work desk, i have decided to make certain goals in my cooking. realistically i suck at making deserts, so i have decided to make a list of consisting of deserts and main dishes. hopefully i will grow with trying to successfully completing the dishes i have set myself.
panna cotta
cheese cake
smoked ocean trout
salt [...]
atelier tonite
so its my early birthday dinner at atelier this evening and i am desperately hungry. lunch was unusually small as i decided this morning that i would not stuff myself like i usually do at midday.
thinking about big named restaurants and their ratings i wondered how these restaurant’s first glean and maintain there ratings. questions [...]
anchovies
anchovies, one of my favourite flavours. i used it today in a very wierd way. can you imagine that i used it in a lasagna, quite curious indeed.
lasagna is quite easily made, and tonite i made a pork/chicken lasagna. layering the oven proof dish with mashed up butternut pumkin which was conviently cooked in the [...]