Recently I managed to sneak in a little bit of time to make us something new in my kitchen. I’m not sure that I should mention that its actually supposed to have been dinner for the past 3 nights and has only just been created….such is life with a baby in the house unfortunately. I’m…
Category: dinner
BBQ Pork with Vietnamese Caramel Sauce
It’s not often you’ll hear one of us say our kitchen smells like dirty Thai. We’re not being offensive when we say that, we mean good real Thai food off the back streets of Bangkok, cooked on well seared woks and bbqs. The aromas floating into the allyways and combining with the city smells in…
The Virtues of Frozen Dinners
Way back when I first started this blog I did a little post about frozen dinners. Not of a promotional nature or commercial kind, more of a do it yourself kind. I thought it was high time I revisited this idea with an impending arrival on his way and due any day now. Being…
Fresh Summer Salads
I may be overstating the obvious for anyone in Brisbane at the moment, but this summer is HOT! 35 celsius and 90% humidity has me melting around the edges and very grateful for air-conditioning. The last thing I feel like doing is heating up the kitchen (and myself) when it takes so much effort and…
Brown Sugar Kitchen’s Buttermilk Fried Chicken
Recently I discovered a wonderful cookbook called Brown Sugar Kitchen by Tanya Holland with Jan Newberry (2014). Brown Sugar Kitchen is actually a soul food restaurant based on Oakland, California and the book is a reflection of the food experience of the chef and the generous american home style cooking served in her corner store…
Gnocchi
Homemade gnocchi is one of those foods that I thought would be difficult to make and had consequently never attempted to try. I had visions of my dumplings being a messy glue that would dissolve at cooking or turn into bullets and leave us with a horrid pasty texture in our mouths. Never one…
Saffron and Lemon Chicken
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the spice saffron. The smell evokes so many childhood memories for me that I love to cook with it just to take a trip down memory lane. When I was charged with creating this recipe as part of The Cookbook Club earlier this month I was…
Braised Fennel
There is something special about finding yourself a home where you form a good relationship with your neighbours. Most of my living experiences have consisted of perhaps knowing faces to greet as you go past, but would hardly qualify as people who I would borrow a cup of sugar from, let alone sit down to…
Braised Peas
This month we are cooking from Neil Perry’s The Food I Love and I have to be honest and admit that I’ve owned this book for years and I’m yet to properly cook from it. The Cookbook Guru has given me the perfect excuse to delve in and create some of his beautiful food that…
Sharing The Food We Love Right Now
So often I share food with you all that has been created for special occasions, for treats or as an experiment. Whilst we love all kinds of food, sometimes I feel as if I’m veering from the true spirit of my blog, which is to share food that is easy to make on a regular basis,…
Rustic Caponata
This dish is one that instantly takes me back to my childhood. We would enjoy it with semolina cheese baked gnocchi and I always remember loving the contrast of the rich vegetables with the smooth cheesy flavour of the gnocchi. Unfortunately I don’t make it very much as I find that only a little goes…
Layered Roast Vegetable and Haloumi Salad with Pinenuts
Recently I made this salad and we both fell in love with it instantly. To be honest it just kind of happened and it was a delightful accident that is well worth repeating. A request from a friend for the recipe means that I thought I would share my idea with you all. I wouldn’t…
Sharing The Food We Love 