I am going through a fish phase since I discovered that I can easily run to the Queen Vic during the lunch hour to be the best fish imaginable. I have been wanting to make something with fresh tuna for a while and I figured the classic nicoise salad would be ideal. I bought some [...]
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Nicoise Salad with Seared Tuna (My Way)
Posted in All Recipes, Egg, Lunch, Salad, Seafood, Vegetable, tagged tuna, potato, fresh tuna, nicoise, green bean, lemon zest, olives, cos lettuce on 18 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pad Thai (with Treasured Family Secret Recipe Sauce)
Posted in Egg, Noodle, Stir-fry, Vegetarian, tagged beansprout, fried noodles, garlic chive, Noodle, pad thai, peanut, tofu on 7 October 2009 | 7 Comments »
No. Not really. I am one of those people who can safely say that I have no family recipes as my parents never really cooked so there was nothing to pass down. But last week I had a play around with the pad thai sauce and came up with something I rather liked.
Basically, a pad [...]
Red Centre Trip: Cooking in Alice Springs
Posted in Beef, Egg, Pasta, Side Dish, Soup, Stir-fry, Travel Food, tagged Adelaide, alice springs, bacon, Beef, broccoli, carbonara, chilli, olive, omelet, onion, Pasta, snow peas, wallaby, zucchini on 21 July 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last post on my Central Australia trip. Yay! Are you guys bored of reading about it yet?
(Bush food – an Aboriginal survival presentation at Alice Springs Desert Park)
We spent the last two nights in Alice Springs before travelling back to Melbourne. We drove from Alice Springs to Adelaide (yes in one day) before a stop [...]
Joshua’s Spaghetti Carbonara (with Mushroom and Capsicum)
Posted in Egg, Pasta, tagged Egg, cream, mushroom, capsicum, onion, tarragon, carbonara on 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was lazy so I got Josh to make lunch. Since I took over most of the cooking (unemployment, y’know?), I almost forgot what it was like to just sit there and wait for food to appear!
This is how he does a carbonara for two*:
1/2 onion, diced
2 rashers of bacon, chopped
1/2 red capsicum, cut into [...]
How to Boil an Egg in the Microwave
Posted in Egg on 3 June 2009 | 6 Comments »
(soft-boiled egg with mi goreng)
I know this sounds really simple but humour me for a second. I still get people telling me ‘omg! you cannot possibly put foil and egg in the microwave!’
There are only about 3-4 things I make in the microwave (in fact I only make boiled egg in the microwave when there [...]
