Monthly Archives: November, 2008
Thanksgiving down under
Appetizer:
garlic toast, homemade guacamole
Main:
Roast Chicken with lemon, thyme and rosemary
Crushed kipfler potatoes
Sides:
Creamed spinach
glazed baby carrots with maple syrup and butter
sweet potato & pumpkin casserole with marshmallows
Dessert:
Banana pecan tarte tatin
Dinner for two four five. I wonder if I can pull this off if I leave the office at 5pm?
Edit: (in the spirit of your new president) YES WE CAN!
Roast chicken [...]
Uccello & Pool Club (Ivy)
I’ve been visiting Uccello for various lunches on weekdays – buzzing as the new corporate lunch destination in the city. It is very refreshing to find the place on a Sunday much more pleasant and relaxed, and without the company of clients, I can actually reveal my secret: my love for food porn. Other dishes [...]
Iron Chef Dinner… coming soon!
You are invited to…
An evening of culinary delight
featuring
Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai, Iron Chef Kenichi Chen, Galileo’s Executive Chef, Masahiko
Yomada & special guest Chef Haru Inukai
When: Tuesday 2nd, Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th of December, 2008
Time: 18:30 Dinner Commences
Where: Galileo Restaurant and Globe Bar
The Observatory Hotel
89 – 113 [...]
The perfect baked potato
I’ve finally worked out the secret for the fluffiest, softest baked potato. I only used regular washed potatoes as well!
The temperature/time combination is: 190°C for 1.5 hours.
Using a fork, prick potatoes (deeply) with holes around 1 inch apart.
The inside should be creamy and fluffy, like mash, while the outside is crispy.
Would be amazing with truffle [...]
I feel like… Chicken tonight?
I was online shopping for groceries last week for soup ingredients and I decided to order a whole chicken – a part of it for a chicken soup and roast the legs on a separate night. There are plenty of informative (albeit lame) videos on youtube, and I learnt how to butterfly a chicken by watching [...]
Potato and Leek Soup with prosciutto
What a better way to post hearty soup recipes, when most of you are approaching winter, and I’m stuck at home with four of my wisdom teeth extracted yesterday. The nurse at the day surgery gave me a guideline for a “soft diet” which I have to maintain for at least 7 days. It includes [...]
Sunday Morning
My updates have been nothing short of hopeless – and I apologize! Everything has been hectic, and on top of that, during a company server migration, I lost a large chunk of my emails. It didn’t happen to anyone else, it only corrupted during my account! Epic fail.
Nothing lifts my spirits up more than cooking [...]
Syd mag hall of fame dinner
Sorry for the late updates…
the(sydney)magazine
Food Hall of Fame Dinner
Tonight’s menu incorporates seafood from Christie’s Seafoods, vegetables from Fratelli Fresh and cheese from Jannei Goat Dairy.
Canapes
Freshly shucked oysters with shallot vinegar
Pistachio and goat’s cheese pesto tartlet
G.H. Mumm Cordon Rouge NV champagne, France
Menu
Duo of Hiramasa kingfish and ocean trout
with Victorian white asparagus and wasabi emulsion
2007 Bloodwood [...]