I got this idea from Jamie Oliver’s book Jamie At Home. It was a decent breakfast. Nothing beats bacon fat in the morning.
2 eggs per person
4 fat asparagus per person
3 slices of mild pancetta per person
To soft boil eggs (I was fiddling with the asparagus and overcooked the eggs so the picture isn’t really of [...]
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Posted in All Recipes, Egg, Lunch, Salad, Seafood, Vegetable, tagged cos lettuce, fresh tuna, green bean, lemon zest, nicoise, olives, potato, tuna on 18 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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