Lockdown Tryouts – The Oven!

Robin BoyleFish & Seafood, General Interest, Lunch, Main course, Recipe, Vegetables

Covid-19 lockdown has given everyone plenty of opportunities to experiment with their cooking, to go back to old favourites and to try out some of those newspaper cut-out recipes. Not everything we have tried has worked but we are generally very pleased rather than disappointed. In this post we include some savoury successes from the oven. Cazuela – An Argentinean …

Burnt Vegetables! Part 2

Robin BoyleLatin America, Launceston, Restaurant-Cafe, Vegetables

Continued from: Burnt Vegetables! Part 1 It takes practice to burn vegetables … and expertise! It sounds silly doesn’t it?  That: “It’s OK to burn food“. Or that your spouse could be happy when you say with pride: “Darling, I’ve managed to burn dinner!” But as renowned Argentinean chef, Francis Mallmann, explains in his book, Seven Fires, “the right amount …