Tag: food
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Paul’s Caul… Salt and pepper squid
Salt & pepper squid There is always a huge disparity between dishes us chefs think of being our best and the dishes that the people (you) like the most. This for years has driven me up the effing wall but as I get older I say give the people what they want, unless what they…
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Food truly is the best shit ever part 2… the seafood feast
And now, the eagerly awaited (for at least two hours) gripping sequel to my last post*. The heart wrenching story of a man with a passion for food, a love for good friends and family, a hankering for a nice glass off something with an alcohol content and a strange magnetism toward midget circus…
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Appreciation of food… and a damn fine falafel
Appreciation of food is not just relevant to the food you eat. It is relevant to the whole package… The surroundings. The company. The wait staff. Whether you have a stinky little carnie sitting at the next table. And of course the check… All of it. The culmination of these factors is called “dining”. And…
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Smoked chicken, fennel and potato stew type thing
I had this meal in the pot in 5 minutes, which left me with plenty of time to go out to the verandah and sit back in my old rocking chair, smoke my corncob pipe and pay some more attention to my collection of dirty magazines from the early eighties. This is a great recipe…
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Paul’s Caul… The three F’s
The Three F’s… I’m an emotional beast, not that I let these emotions govern my interactions with others, but non-the less things move me. I’m not going to lie to you all I have found my self sitting on the couch watching the voice with a tear rolling down my face (don’t judge me!) or…
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Roasted beef shin… and another story from Dr Chris
“Les the windmill expert” by Doctor Chris There was this guy, Les. He was a windmill expert & he lived in Western QLD. I met him in the 1960’s. By expert, I mean this guy could dismantle a windmill with a 21-foot wheel sitting… on top of a forty-foot tower… on his own. Then he…
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Baked Lime Tart
I am a man of comfortablity. I have routines and I like to keep them up. I like people to call if they are coming to visit (mosttly because I don’t often wear pants… or knickers). I like the kitchen to be how I left it when I get in to work the next day.…
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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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A LOT OF GOOD PORK AND A HORN ON AN OLD FALCON
By DoktrChris Many years ago in another life I lived on a cattle station in Western QLD. One day, the guy who worked for me turned up for work & remarked that he had seen a wild pig in the paddock. “Mate” I said. “You must be dreaming. There are no pigs in this country.”…
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Atlantic Slamon and Dill Pate for Sammy… and the great lemon abduction
With a title like that I’m pretty sure you’re going to be expecting a cracker of a story. Prepare to be disappointed… Last night Sammy made herself a salmon, lemon and dill risotto for dinner. “Nice work Sammy”, I said to her. But she still had salmon and a heap of dill left after the…
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