Dear Sydney summer, you suck. You've been blisteringly hot or rainy and cold all season, with barely enough decent beach days to count on two hands since you began. And lately? Well it seems you think we all enjoy the frizzy hair and sweaty faces that accompany 80%+ humidity. Well guess what, we don't. Yes, yes, I sound all first world problems and all but seriously, what's the point of living here -- with the over-priced fomo food fads and heart breakingly expensive real-estate … [Read more...]
Summer Mango Salsa
For so long I took photos only for myself. And then I got better at taking photos and started shooting for other people. And somewhere along the line I kind of stopped shooting for myself. Then last weekend RJ requested fish tacos with mango salsa for dinner and there was something so very perfect about the pile of fresh, brightly coloured produce we brought home from the shop that it simply had to be photographed. Of course not just made and shot but chopped and dropped and spread … [Read more...]
Lemon Tahini Sauce
A quick one before the Australia Day long weekend kicks into gear -- the Lemon Tahini Sauce I promised you back on that Mushroom Falafel recipe. My love of tahini is regularly flaunted here and I'll put it on pretty much anything, but it also makes the perfect creamy dressing without a drop of dairy or a single nut in sight. If you're not a tahini fan you may have just not found one you like -- so it's worth trying a few brands as they can vary quite a bit from smooth to bitter and … [Read more...]
Turkey Ragu
He always orders the house-made pappardelle, I always order the seafood pasta. We share the cabbage and walnut salad and spoon-battle over the last skerricks of dessert. The ragu on the pappardelle changes each time, and while variations of beef and lamb are on regular rotation, turkey has only appeared once at our regular date night haunt... The tacchino was ordered with a touch of hesitation, lunchmeat and overcooked Christmas roll far too vivid in his memory, but with one bite all bets … [Read more...]
Romesco – Spanish Roasted Red Pepper & Nut Sauce
It only took one bite and I was smitten. Simple as that. I have no recollection of ever consuming romesco sauce before that evening but there it was, a base for a head of roasted cauliflower and its parmesan veil. The cauliflower itself was stunning -- tender, fragrant and just charred around the edges -- and will inevitably make it here one day but the sauce... oh the sauce. We scraped every last drop from the plate even after the cauliflower was gone but still I couldn't stop … [Read more...]
Beet Greens & Cashew Pesto
Keeping up with my reasonably skewed approach to pretty much everything these days, a few weeks back I bought a bunch of beetroot a with the sole purpose of lopping off the greens for pesto. Once the greens were sorted I proceeded to fish through a jar of mixed nuts for the cashews, eating a pecan and brazil and walnut and macadamia or four as I went. Don't worry, the beets were used a night or two later for dinner, but right now were talking about pesto. Actually this would be pretty … [Read more...]
Green Herb Pesto & In My Kitchen: April 2014
If you haven't noticed I'm rather prolific over on Instagram... ahem, and therefore each time I pull together a list for In My Kitchen I simply scroll back through photos shared since the last post to work out what's been going on. There is a bit of a method to the madness, even if the resulting collections appear as slightly randomly grouped items all in one place. That said my life is slightly random when put all in one place, so it fits. Anyway, it's once again time to link up with Celia … [Read more...]
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