Tag: cooking
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Prawn & sausage jambalaya

Jambalaya. A Cajun classic. Allegedly first made by European immigrants in New Orleans and deeply rooted in the Spanish paella. It’s a tasty-assed mash up of some kind of meat, smoked sausage, a few vegetables and rice in a pot, where they are left to make love and produce offspring of immensely really good flavour.…
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Special sauce

This is my recipe for special sauce. We use it at our restaurant, the Stockpot Kitchen, and lots of people ask me for the recipe. Here is the recipe. My debt to you is paid in full. SPK SPECIAL SAUCE This is enough for a round of burgers and then some to put in the…
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Herby sorta thai ‘slaw

This is a story about the search for new sides to go with my BBQ. “Some kinda ‘slaw has got to be a good start”, I thought to myself (because if I thought to someone else that would make me some kind of other-world super computer human and that, I am not). This started with…
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Cherry tomato salsa / sauce for a steak date

Steak with cherry tomato salsa / sauce. This little cherry tomato number is great for when you need to get away from the gravy for a night, or maybe even try to impress a date who you have lured, err, coaxed, err, invited to your lair, err, den, err, house. Whatever. I’m pretty sure you…
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Paul’s Caul – Hash in all of its glory.
Now I’m sure you are either thinking where the hell have I been for the last two years, or more likely who the hell am I? Regardless of which group you fall into I don’t feel I have to answer to any of you so just relax, you don’t own this blog! We don’t work…
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Really, really easy pit beans.
I don’t even know what to say about these beans except they are so damn easy – not boozed up prom queen easy but really darn close. Cook these as a side at your next BBQ or do not be afraid to put a fried egg on top of a bowl of this and call…
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Troppo fried chicken burger
In Australia when we add pineapple to a dish we are automatically granted permission to rename name the dish with tropical as the prefix. For example; a pork chop that has a pineapple ring added to it may now be a tropical pork chop, a pineapple sorbet is now tropical sorbet and fast food joints…