Tag: eating
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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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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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Lamb shnitzel with mint sauce (or maybe in a sandwich with tomato ketchup)
The trans-Tasman comradery and a good piece of lamb I am not sure the reason, but whatever it is, we as Australians always seem to be able to afford ourselves the time for a big old cross seas pointing of the finger and a laugh with our neighbours the Kiwis (and them to us I’m…
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Steak and the things I might like to have with it ie. Cafe de Paris butter
Steak is something that is honoured with no particular favourite sauce/dressing for me. It could be something green and herbaceous. Maybe salsa verde or a twangy chimmichurri. It might be something creamy. A porcini mushroom and bacon sauce perhaps. Or maybe a classic jus or gravy. I have been known to adorn a nice steak…
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An ode to my Ma’s savoury mince pie
This is a meat pie that would make my mother proud. I have said more than once that my mother was not the flashest of home cooks, and she is OK with that and still sends me birthday cards etc, etc, etc, but she could definitely throw together a damn fine fish fry, great meat…
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Meatballs in tomato sauce on the Weber
This was one of those times where I wanted to fire up the BBQ but I needed to do something different than the ol’ standards. Enter the meatballs. Meatballs are absolutely banging when they’re cooked in any type of BBQ, and also tasty as when cooked in the oven. The choice is yours. But these…