Category: lamb
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The late night lamb sandwich… consumed one afternoon at Bay Kebabs
This post is for the kids who yearn for the flavour of the late night lamb sandwich (kebab).Lamb sliced from the only-god-knows-how-long-that-has-been-there giant meat stick, lettuce, tomato, onion, tabouleh, tzatziki and hot chilli sauce all wrapped in an edible, carry anywhere skin aka. the flat bread. This is thee only energy bar needed for a…
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Lamb-ancini (lamb arancini) with caper mayonnaise
Just a quick little note with a compulsory amusing anecdote about my life at the moment. Dear diary. This week I started a new job. The new kitchen has lots of fun toys for me to play with, new work mates for me to torment, a baker/pastry chef (I must have done something good in…
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Camp food (cooking with wood) part 1…
Camp oven roast lamb with cannelini beans, tomato and olives Camp food? Cooking with wood? Oh my how the images flow into my head… Cooking with wood (hehem) is something I am a fan of, in more ways then one. Hey, I’ve told you before, food excites me, yeah. If I may indulge myself (going…
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Anchovy and caper salsa… And thanks Pauly. Thanks for the cheer.
Pauly from Paul’s Caul (and various other notoriety) is a great friend and means many other things to me then just cheap “thrills” to say the least, but today I just wanna say thanks to him for the laughs he brings to my day when he sends me a new post. My day usually isn’t…
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My big fat feasting long weekend part 2
Part two There was a game of foosball. Now I don’t much follow the foosball and I don’t much like girls because girls are the devil. So I decided I would watch the foosball grand final, which is actually pronounced f-o-o-t-b-a-l-l… Apparently… And is also more correctly known as rugby league Queenie has just informed…
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My big fat feasting long weekend part 1
Yeah I know it’s been a week since I last gave you a bang up insight into the world of my kitchen, but it was new menu time at the restaurant and, as any head chef* will tell you, new menu time does not offer us much personal space, family time or blog-land time. When…
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Mussaman curry spiced lamb by Gareth the work experience kid
While I am in the mood for doing odes and paying homages, this one is for Gareth, the work experience kid we had in the kitchen last week. Gareth is also my nephew. I think he thought he may have got off quite lightly working with his ol’ Uncle Graz, but we worked that little…
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Another Effing Soup
Been a lot sick lately blah blah blah. Made a lot of soup blah blah. Can’t have too much soup blah blah blah. Here’s another blah blah blah. This is my take on a Moroccan chickpea, lentil and tomato soup called Harira. Which sounds a little bit like hurry up. Which you cannot do when…
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The gospel according to food… and other things they don’t teach you in religion
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO FOOD What? Blasphemy? Not at all, my child. Please, read on… Bloody hell. It is seriously cold today. I will have to keep typing just to ensure my fingers don’t get frostbite. It’s so cold I’m pretty sure I just saw a brass monkey coming out of a welding shop.…
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Five things to do with secondary cuts of meat… and the big joke the butchers played on the rest of the world
FIVE THINGS TO DO WITH SECONDARY CUTS OF MEAT AND THE BIG JOKE BUTCHERS PLAYED ON THE REST OF THE WORLD Secondary cuts of meat. I’m pretty sure that was a term early butchers made up to keep societies elite away from the tastiest cuts of meat. So yes, secondary cuts is a term used…