11
Sep
Sri Lankan Chicken Curry
Cookbook Challenge Week 38 Spice Book: Sri Lankan Flavours: a journey through the island’s food and culture by Channa Dassanayaka Theme: Spice Recipe: Chicken Curry I may or may not have previously mentioned about how much I am taken with Rick Stein’s Far East Odyssey. Mainly because Rick Stein is just so damn funny. But...
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07
Sep
Yellow and Green Beans with Almonds and Shallots
After a post dribbling about how much I love vegetable side dishes in my last post, I might as well follow it up with a simple favourite of mine. I serve this as a side dish with pretty much anything. In one of our dinner parties, I paired this with simple roast beef and roast...
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04
Sep
Melbourne Food Review: Lento, South Yarra
It is a very unfortunate thing when you discover a fabulous restaurant by accident, it gave you such a great impression and got you excited with its genuine, interesting. good food and then you never to get around to blogging about it until months later. So now you fear you won’t do it justice. That...
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23
Aug
Japanese Potato Salad
So from our last shashlik encounter, as promised, the Japanese potato salad recipe. 4 medium potatoes, peeled (Buy the ones covered in dirt, they stay fresh a bit longer. Don’t be prissy, you’re going to peel them anyway. A bit of dirt won’t kill you.) 1/2 Lebanese cucumber, thinly sliced 1/2 small carrot, very thinly...
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15
Aug
Shashlik – A Russian Barbecue
I should probably get this post out before winter is over, shouldn’t I? This was a lovely winter barbecue event rather than a traditional summer one. My dearest Tania invited us over to her place for a Russian-style barbecue (either that or it’s Tania-style barbecue) of shashlik. Shashlik is basically a good-ol’ meat-on-a-stick food. Let’s...
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