Fried rice is one of my favourite quick meals, that take no time to put together but hits the right spot when hunger calls. I made this fried rice for breakfast using brown basmati rice left over from dinner the previous night. My recipe makes about two small portions. 150 grams cooked brown rice. 1 [...]
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Toasted Focaccia with Avocado & Tomato
Do you sometimes stare into your fridge when hungry, look at all the food inside whilst dreaming up all the great meals possible. Then the grim prospect of spending a long time prepping the food, stops you right there. You might then activate plan b, which is foraging around for quick junk loaded with sugar, [...]
Sweet Corn & Thyme Risotto
The picture above looks like some extreme risotto porn, I got carried away & zoomed in a bit too close… Anyway it looks great, doesn’t it? The risotto you are looking at is sweet, creamy & also quite sinful. I enriched with mascarpone & butter. It is pseudo vegetarian since I used dairy products, I [...]
Fish & Chips My Way
Last weekend I was at the Sarit Centre to check out the Egyptian & Middle east expo, the expo was heavily promoted on TV & curiosity on my part led me to check it out. What a waste of time it was, the stuff on sale was lots of kitschy junk in my opinion. I [...]
Polenta, Sausages & Basil Tomato Sauce
Picked up a packet of polenta at the supermarket recently, I had eaten polenta a few times before at Italian restaurants but I had no idea how it’s made. I figured it is just the Italian version of Ugali made from yellow corn/maize, so I fired up google to seek sage advice from the interwebs. [...]
Chicken ballotine, potato puree & carrot jus
08 Apr 2009 at 23:31
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French Lessons by Justin North, La Technique by Jacques Pepin, Random Recipe
Sometime last year I had lunch at Caveau a great little restaurant in Wollongong. Head chef at Caveau is Peter Sheppard, a protege of Liam Tomlin. Anyway, the lunch special on that day was a chicken ballontine with potato puree, mushrooms, buttered spinach & cepe(porcini) sauce. The chicken was cooked perfectly, I am still trying [...]
Roast Pork Belly with Puy Lentils
I think Anthony Bourdain once said pork belly is the poor man’s foie gras, he was right on the money. Pork belly is sandwich of lean meat & pork fat, it so sinful & tasty. I fell in love with roast pork belly in Thailand 4 years ago. When every other sunday, I would go [...]
Making quick beer bread
Some say bacon makes everything taste, well in this millennia I say “beer makes everything taste good”. Quote me! I had oxtail braised in beer, now here is beer bread. This quick beer bread features Sierra Amber from my favorite micro-brewery, Sierra. Love the look of this bread, all lumpy & bumpy like the moon’s [...]
Simplicity: Steak & Chips
Quick lunch, steak & chips….. the pan sauce with the steak was amazing. Real easy, when steak was almost done(cooked it medium rare). I added about 20 grams of butter to pan, basted steak for a few seconds. Set aside steak to rest, deglazed the great fond(caramelised meaty bits) on the pan with brown chicken [...]
Sierra porter beer braised oxtail with coriander gremolata
This is the best meal I’ve had this year by far, the star of this dish was the sierra porter beer in which I braised the oxtail. Sierra porter is a really amazing beer from Sierra Nairobi’s only micro-brewery. They brew three great beers, Sierra Blonde, Sierra Amber & Sierra Porter. The amber & the [...]
