Tag: food love
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Ultimate Coq au Vin Recipe for Winter Comfort
Cock au vin, or chicken in wine, is another one of those dishes that I really look forward to when the weather chills down some, and even more so if we have an excess of roosters that we need to deal with*. You can cook it in a camp oven on the way to wolf…
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Smoky Beery Beef Cheeks: A Simple Guide
Have a read of this recipe, read it again and then tell yourself maybe this could as simple as it seems. Like, mountain folk cousins mating type simple. SMOKY BEERY BEEF CHEEKS 4 beef cheeks, approx 400 – 450 g each, trimmed of silver skin and excess fat1 onion, sliced1 can of whatever beer it…
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Crying Tiger Beef: A Spicy Escape
This is classic “stuck under a cyclone with no power and only howling rain and wind as your soundtrack” eating. Just classic. Sure, the ambiance could be better, but the steak made for a damn tasty escape for a few minutes. I would suggest that you should use as much chilli as you feel comfortable…
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Christmas spit roasted goose with bacon, cranberry and herb stuffing
So there it was. Christmas. It came as quickly as a teenage boy, and then left feeling just as ashamed. There will be no more fighting through crowds of people, the air will clear of the musty smell of anxiety and defeat, the glow of the fluorescent lights powered by a million trapped Christmas fairies…
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Charred cabbage salad with yoghurt dressing
You should not poo-poo the idea of a salad being great. You should definitely not poo-poo the idea of a great cabbage salad. You should really definitely not poo-poo the idea of charring said cabbage for that great salad. Lessgo. CHARRED CABBAGE SALAD WITH YOGHURT DRESSING (for the barbecue table) ½ green cabbage, cut into…
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Nasi goreng with smoked pork belly
Classic Indonesian fried rice – Nasi meaning “rice” and goreng meaning “fried”. Legit linguistics. lessons for y’all right there. I have mentioned before that I have a penchant for all things ricey, but when you head into rice world armed with a fried egg, some smoked pork belly, crispy-airy prawn crackers and a garlicky ginger…
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Smoked pork belly pad kra pao
Pad kra pao is a really good Thai stir fry usually consisting of minced meat, long beans and holy basil. We’ve subbed in smoked pork belly for another level of deliciousness and thai basil because holy basil is MIA. As with all stir frying make sure you have your mis en place ready. Everything chopped…
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Smoked lamb shoulder with Middle Eastern sorta garnish
I like lamb. I like lamb a lot. I like lamb enough to write a poem about it. Mary had a little lamb shoulder which she would cook for hours,It cooked until it fell from the bone and its aroma was better than flowers. There’s a brief foray into the world of poetry from me.…
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Spicy fish on toast
This is a pretty good little entrée. It is actually a really good little entrée. It’s kinda flash but also very easy to make so I guess it fits your MO perfectly. You could certainly put this fish on mini toasts for a lovely canape too. SPICY FISH ON TOAST (for 4 as an entrée)…
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Kung pao crack chicken
This is my version of kung pao chicken – a Sichuan dish that I have never tasted. Armed with my lack of knowledge and a fervor only seen previously in Russian ballet circles, I have set forth to make this dish my own. I’ve looked at a few recipes and then played around with a…
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