Category: salad
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Steak with onion jam and washed rind cheese
Steak with onion jam and washed rind cheese Are you at home eating your dinner on the couch and watching a movie? No? Well I am… learn a little something from that. Rib eye steak with onion jam and washed rind cheese is easy, yet a little bit classy, much like the up town girl…
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Tofu pad thai for meat free week days…
Sinking into the depths of a meatless existence. My old life seems further and further away. Sometimes I dream about a summer’s day. Everyone is in the backyard, I can hear the laughter of friends and family, the barbeque is smoking away and we jokingly do “I hate rabbits”* as the smoke blows in our…
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No Meat Monday… eggplant and silverbeet curry
No meat Monday… eggplant and silverbeet curry So it has finally happened. A full winter of eating as much rich, hearty food as I could possibly lay my hands on has taken its toll. That last pork belly I consumed in a style not totally dissimilar to that of Obelix in the stories of the…
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Happy birthday to me
Today is my birthday. Last night I got enough beer into my belly to give me one hell of a head ache. I quite literally feel like I did get older last night. The boys were up at 5:30am (yeah, there’s a 5:30am now) hiding my presents which in turn meant that I was up…
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The Sunday roast… the final instalment
The Sunday roast… or not… So you still can’t do a decent Sunday roast? You just don’t have enough time… your kids are so hungry they’re starting to eat each other… and you’ve already lost three. Lucky your white trash genes decreed that you shalt have eleven children. Even if you do have to sacrifice…
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My mum’s tomato, cucumber and onion salad
My mum is really neat My mum is fantastic I love my mum She carried me in her belly for ages That’s a pretty good effort Happy Mothers Day ma xo I think you’d agree excellent poetry is another feather in my cap… I really should stop putting all of those stupid looking feathers…
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Tuna tartare with potato crisps aka. new skool fish’n’chips
This is what 6am looks like. How do I know what 6am looks like, you may ask. Well, apart from it being the time of day I normally start work, on this given day of our lord, Monday sometime in 2013, it was the time that we (myself, Jennee and our friends Matt and Soryah)…
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my late night lamb sandwich
After my disappointment at a recent experience at the local kebab joint I decided I owed it to myself and you, the people, to right this wrong and make my own far superior lamb kebab. At this point in time I am pleased to announce that my mission was an outstanding success.…
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Falafel at Orgasmic Food, Byron Bay
The falafel Due to the recent experience I had with a lamb kebab, the one that left me feeling about as satisfied as the wife of a serial premature ejaculator, I had a yearning deep down inside me that needed to be satisfied. It wasn’t the sort of feeling that could be extinguished with a…
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This is a story about getting dressed
Getting dressed is something that a lot of people learn how to do in the early years of their life. A bit like doing their wees and poos on the toilet, and not eating steamy dog turds from the back lawn… or was that just my kids. The most basic of life skills, yet one…