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Pork tamales with prickly pear + tequila salsa

1 February 2012 Mexican
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The idea of food wrapped in parcels is just too hard to resist. Seafood cocooned in banana leaves, cabbage rolls, dolmades and anything that is steamed, baked, fried or boiled is always a joy when it involves peeling back the layers to reveal a tasty core of ingredients. This traditional Mexican dish is made up of cooked meat [...]

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Spiced quail breasts with bhindi gobi masala + zhoug

26 January 2012 Indian
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So here’s where it all began. I was walking through the supermarket and spotted some cauliflower and thought I’d whip up a tasty treat for myself while the other half was mingling with the celebs in LA for the Gday USA launch. Nice for some. After grabbing the cauliflower I came across a tray of quail [...]

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Bhindi masala – spiced okra

25 January 2012 Indian
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So we’ve gone from Indian to Middle Eastern for my “dinner for one” and now it’s back to India with this simple dish I reckon most people would like. If I can make assumptions, that is. Every time I duck over to the Fiji Market to top up the spices in my pantry I spot [...]

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Zhoug

24 January 2012 Middle Eastern
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Here’s something I’ve had in my repertoire for many years now and on the occasion pull it out and give it another burl. Zhoug is a sauce you’ll find at street stalls in the Middle East, the stalls that sell kebabs and felafels. My original recipe calls for the rind of preserved lemon but seeing [...]

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Gobi masala – spiced cauliflower

23 January 2012 Indian
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When my partner recently ducked over to LA for a few days for work I thought, you beauty, I can buy a cauliflower and whip it up for dinner. Yes it’s the small things that get me excited, people. Things like cauliflower, cadbury creme eggs and the crust on sourdough bread. Maybe even a bottle [...]

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Shoofly pie with pecans + white cherries

18 January 2012 American
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It’s pretty ironic that a fly should land on my arm whilst rolling out the pastry for this pie, quickly buzzing away when I said words a little more harsh than shoo.  I mean, really, who says shoo in this day and age other than your nanna or some stressed-out Amish woman freaking out because flies keep landing on [...]

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Frangelico bread puddings + blackcurrants

11 January 2012 Dessert
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The good old bread pudding started it’s life sometime in the early 17th century as a means of using up stale bits of bread, first steamed with either meat or fruit and then baked. As more luxurious ingredients such as sugar, eggs, milk and butter became available the bread and butter pudding was born. These days [...]

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Smotani govedina – rolled beef

4 January 2012 Croatian
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This is a dish that clutches to my vague memory of being a youngster obediently sitting with mum, dad and siblings chowing on simple Croatian stodge after a hard day at school. A recent phone conversation with my mother, it’s often about food, somehow dwelled on this particular dish that I only remembered having after I made [...]

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