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Crab linguini with garlic and lemon breadcrumbs

May 7, 2010

I found freshly picked crab at this little place in Port Douglas – so perfect I wasn’t sure whether I should make a souffle or just a simple pasta. The votes were in for the latter, plus it’s much less fussy when you’re not cooking in your own kitchen. I used breadcrumbs to give it [...]

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On the inlet

May 5, 2010

Don’t you love it when you can peel prawns on your own, dip them in salt, squeeze them with lemon and eat them all by yourself? Such a satisfying lunch today on the inlet in Port Douglas. Sat by the water with a bottle of beer and a bowl full of ice and prawns. A [...]

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Market day

April 10, 2010

Orange Grove markets in Rozelle deserves a wander for its prolific display of organic produce. This week the market had a new stall, which sells fish including salmon proscuitto. Organic is the main theme through the markets, and I found the food stalls more interesting than the bags and knick-knacks, but each to their own. [...]

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Portobellos at the market

April 10, 2010

The Mushroom Depot was selling wood eared mushooms, namenko (above), large portobellos, shitake, oyster, Swiss brown, large wild pine, and your plain old little button mushrooms this morning at the organic Orange Grove markets in Sydney’s Rozelle. Peter Hood (below), sells this perfect assortment of funghi as they come into season. Worth trecking over to [...]

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Alphabet soup

April 5, 2010

A very simple recipe, using homemade chicken stock (recipe coming), and clean fresh tasting vegetables. You could add cooked basmati or brown rice to the soup, but I’ve used a gluten free pasta shaped like letters! Made this for friends the other day and we all ended up trying to spell out our names by [...]

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Cherry clafouti

April 2, 2010

I picked up this recipe for cherry clafouti, a kind of kirsch-soaked cherry fluffy pancake, in New York in January, and made it on this gorgeous sunny Easter friday! It’s actually perfect for summer, and if you can get fresh cherries, all the better! If not, you can get jars or even cans of cherries [...]

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King Caesar

April 1, 2010

This is my take on a Caesar salad, a classic Italian salad, but with no bacon or pancetta, and no bread. It’s barely a Caesar really, but with the reggiano, coddled egg, anchovies and lemony dressing, it’s every bit as good and is a little lighter. A yolk should be bright yellow if it’s organic [...]

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Universal and The Thrifty Kitchen

March 24, 2010

Christine Manfield of Universal fame last night created an incredible menu in her restaurant pulled from and inspired by my book The Thrifty Kitchen. Meatloaf at Universal? Yes! Check out the menu below.. Thank you Chris, what an incredible evening. Absolutely humbling. The meatloaf with green beans was nothing like they dreamed up in the [...]

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Pictures of you

March 16, 2010

I’m just going to come right out with a bit of a push and point towards a fabulous food and photography blog by Kristin Hove, a lovely friend. Her food is always interesting – she uses pomegranates and buttermilk and such things that we too often forget about – but it’s her photography that has [...]

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Kitchen company

February 12, 2009

I love a kitchen table. This is the place where we can build up our quality of life, eating home-made food in our own homes, around a kitchen setting – where conversation can’t help but happen and where the various day’s activities are pulled apart, laughed about, and where plans are made for the next [...]

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