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Beer
March 12, 2012 Specifically: Melbourne (mostly) craft beer. I’ve just spend a week living it up in Melbourne, and was absolutely blown away by the amount of local craft brew available – to the point where a pub that only had Little Creatures or Fat Yak on tap felt boring and pedestrian. {Tags: , } {More...}

Not my thai chilli basil chicken… but wow it’s great!

Thai
November 23, 2011 So it’s another shameful “pimp my newest link” posts, but I don’t care. I just added this link. Here’s the story…. {More...}

Indian takeaway? No way!

Indian
IMG_3814 October 17, 2011 An indian dinner menu – packed full of flavour, utilising heaps of fresh produce. {Tags: , } {More...}

Mixed vegetable curry

Indian
IMG_3802 Curries tend to be mostly meat… with the odd bit of onion, and sometimes some tomato involved. This is the “side-dish” curry I cook when I feel the need to balance out the meaty curry with some plant matter. This is one of those fantastic “fridge-velcro” recipes. It really, and i mean REALLY, doesn’t matter {Tags: , , } {More...}

Lamb Saag… or Palak…. or Spinach Curry!

Indian
IMG_3798 October 16, 2011 So I dunno what to call this – both terms, Saag and Palak, seem to mean “an indian dish involving spinach”, depending on what indian restaurant you’re in. I believe one is a more northern version, and the other southern – but I have no idea which is what, or any more details, so i’m {Tags: , , , } {More...}

One rice cooker recipe to rule them all

Technique
… and in the darkness bind them! This is my simple “how to cook rice in a rice cooker without bothering to measure anything ever again” technique. {Tags: } {More...}

Chinese Barbeque Pork in 2 easy (sort of) steps

Chinese
October 3, 2011 I absolutely LOVE the flavour or chinese BBQ pork… the dried out twice cooked texture? Not-s0-much. In fact, B pretty much bans it from our menu because of this. So I’ve been working on a recipe to get nice juicy tender pork coupled with that beautiful sweet and slightly spicy pink outer layer for a {More...}

Moroccan Spices – explained?

Moroccan
June 9, 2011 So I added a new link… and it’s so good, I wanted to post about it for some extra exposure! So the new link - Moroccan Spices Explained – is a great explanation of the “rules” of moroccan spices. {Tags: } {More...}

Preserved Lemons – Round 1

Moroccan
Jar right before the carnage started - the jar was filled with scaldingly hot boiling water June 7, 2011 Our backyard lemon tree is all ripe and ready for picking – so its time for: Preserved Lemons Round 1. Ding ding ding {Tags: , } {More...}

Asian Cooking Basics: The 4 S’s

Chinese, Thai
Asian cooking is all about balance. This is some stuff I wrote a while back for an audience of 1. It needs polish. But here it is pre-polish…. {Tags: } {More...}