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Sausage ragu
When I was cooking this the other day I noticed that the sauce was smelling deliciously smoky, I was pleasantly surprised since I don’t remember buying smokey sausages. Everyone likes smokey-ness in...
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Moroccan Chicken Soup
This is my go-to chicken soup whenever I have sick people to feed. It smells amazing and can be quite spicy which is the best part in my eyes! It’s also quite filling as you add cous cous to it...
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Tomato linguine with chili
This dish is inspired by a pasta dish at Ciccio’s Pasta Bar in Brisbane. They make very good pasta. When we lived in Brisbane we used to dine in or get take away from here at least once a fortnight....
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the secret to good bread
My favourite breakfast place in the world is Cantina in Brisbane, they have great omelettes that come with a tasty tomato chutney, the best Huevos Rancheros I’ve ever had and the most amazing bread. I...
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Fancy bruschetta
I can’t believe I have forgotten about this bruschetta for so long, I think it’s been over two years since I last made it. I feel ashamed of myself. This is not your average tomato based bruschetta...
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Bring me pumpkin and chorizo
A little while ago my flatmate Noelle sent me this message: What you doing for dinner? On my way home I got really excited as I was in the middle of making gnocchi and I didn’t have anything to serve...
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surreptitiously smashed cucumbers
The Hawksmoor claims to be the best steak restaurant in London, I haven’t tried many steak restaurants in London however I have no reason to doubt this claim. They have some amazing steaks and their...
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Avocado, soy sauce and garlic
I didn’t know what avocados were until I was 7, we moved to New Zealand and we had a giant avocado tree in our back yard. I wish I had a photo of it. It was exactly how you would draw a tree – shaped...
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The house that hated soup
I decided to make soup the other night, I messaged our flatmate to tell her what’s for dinner and she says oops she forgot to tell me she doesn’t like soup very much. Oh well, Mat doesn’t like soup...
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Lamb Shanks at home
I used to love the idea of lamb shanks, if I saw it on a menu there’s a good chance I would order it. But it was always just too rich and too falling off the bone (yes there is such a thing)....
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Introduction to making dumplings
I make excellent dumplings. They are really good, so good that I look down on store-bought and most restaurant dumplings which are usually small and filled with cheap fillings. I think dumplings are...
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Dumplings Part 1: Buying dumpling wrappers
I’m so pleased by everyone’s interest to learn how to make dumplings – if you’ve missed the my intro post about making dumplings check it out here. Please let me know if you have any questions or...
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Dumplings Part 2: Preparing the filling
There are a lot of different variations for dumpling filling on the web, you can pretty much add anything vaguely Asian to your dumplings like shitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, vermicelli, spring...
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Dumplings Part 3: Wrapping the dumplings
Explaining how to wrap dumplings is not easy, I have tried to make things as clear as possible and have tested and altered these instructions based on feedback from a first-time dumpling maker. So I...
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Dumplings Part 4: Cooking and eating
There are three ways of cooking dumplings; boiling, steaming and frying. I have never tried steaming dumplings at home, the closest I’ve come is the ones you get at yum cha. Boiling dumplings allows...
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Rhubarb crumble
Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb, nothing is more delicious than rhubarb crumble. These are the prettiest rhubarb I’ve ever had the pleasure of cooking with, the ones I usually get in Australia are really...
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The Corned Beef thing
This is the quadfecta of cheap foods right here: corned beef, rice, egg and Tabasco sauce. The secret is to mix everything together with a lot of Tabasco like a bibimbap before you start. It is so...
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Indiana Jones, broccoli and goats cheese
Do you think it would be OK to call this the Indiana Jones salad? I had this in Rickmansworth just outside of central London. Some scenes from Raiders of the Lost Arc and Indiana Jones and the Last...
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Elote de Domingo
We discovered something wonderful recently. We were out at dinner at a place called Boho Mexica that serves regional Mexican food (don’t ask me what region). The food was pretty good but the grand...
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Try new foods: Bulgur wheat
We were in Ireland for the weekend recently and I had the most delicious soda bread ever. Part of my attraction to this bread is because there were these delicious crunchy bits throughout the bread,...
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