Category: Recipe
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Canada – Maritime Provinces!
This continues on from New Hampshire & Maine! There are three “Maritime Provinces” in Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Combined with Newfoundland, the four are referred to as the “Atlantic Provinces”. The direct flight distance from Fredericton (capital of New Brunswick) to St John’s (capital of Newfoundland) is around 1,100 kilometres,…
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New York City – The Big Cheesecake!
This continues on from New York – Settling In! New York may well be called the Big Apple, but if it were to have a signature dish my guess it would be ‘cheesecake’. This blog post is about a cheesecake, a strawberry blonde one. You hear about my first encounter with it and our experience…
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Indigo Valley – Home Grown Produce!
Several years ago, Barry and Liz wound up their professional jobs in teaching and accounting-law in East Gippsland, and moved to the Indigo Valley in north-eastern Victoria. That enabled them to relocate to Liz’s family home and farm, where several siblings live nearby. We recently made the four hour trip up from Melbourne to see…
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Hoi An Banh Mi – The World’s Best Sandwich?
This post about banh mi is a continuation from Hoi An: The Food! A ‘sandwich’ that is distinctly Vietnamese Later in this post we will give our method for making a banh mi (pronounced ‘barn mee’) that is truly yummy and clearly in the Vietnamese style. It isn’t a traditional recipe, but it encapsulates…
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What’s in the Fridge? No. 8
Lamb Leg Roasted in Chutney Slow-cooked lamb recipes are everywhere, with many celebrity chefs publishing their own version. Their recipes sound exotic and magical, offering special results; and generally they do. However, you don’t need an exotic recipe to produce a wonderful result. Try this surprise method then experiment with your own versions. Don’t be…
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Anyone for Tennis – Or Pork Ribs?
This time of the year, it is generally hot in Melbourne. After all, the Australian Tennis Open is on! Today, January 26, is Australia Day and tonight the tennis will be interrupted while the fireworks happen. It is a contentious date because it celebrates white settlement in Australia. We will happily celebrate on a new day,…
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Grilled and Fried Capsicums!
Here we use the word capsicums to mean the large, squat, mild peppers that come in red, green, yellow, orange and sometimes black. Sometimes they are called bell peppers or sweet peppers. For the recipes or methods included here you could also consider the elongated banana peppers as they also tend to be mild and…
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Chicken – With Mango Vinaigrette And Coriander Butter!
This post is from an article we wrote for Club Marine magazine in 1997. The food shots date from that period too. We think this recipe has as much appeal today – 2018 – as it did when it was first created. (Use the Print button at the top of this page for a hard…
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The Simplest, Most Perfect Dessert!
Some years ago I had what, for me, was the most perfect of desserts. It was at The Willows, in its period as a fine dining restaurant in a lovely old mansion in St Kilda Road, Melbourne. It was lunch time, a warm December day and there were five of us around the table. Looking…
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Salmon Rillettes – For Entree!
We aren’t advocating setting the table just yet, but early December is not too early to start thinking about Christmas. On Christmas Day, our job is to provide the entree. We already have our contribution planned, as explained below – salmon rillettes (rillettes aux deux saumons). Before then, there is still some work to do.…