Category: Cooking

Pork and fennel roast. I’ve cooked this pork a few times now with a piece of around 1kg roasting pork from the local butcher (which appears to be a transverse slice of pork leg). I take the skin layer with half the fat off first, cut this into slices, salt, and put on a rack over …

Pea and Ham soup This was child approved. When I weighed my ham hock it was double the recipe requirement, so I doubled all ingredients except the frozen peas (didn’t have any more). I added an extra cup of dried split yellow peas at the same time as the stock to compensate. Stock powder was …

The post-chinese-new-year half price duck turned into Gordon Ramsey Crispy Roast Duck. The chinese five spice didn’t penetrate all that well, but it crisped up fairly nicely and was succulent. The intercostal muscle was fantastic from the start anise inside. The extra bits of duck turned into rendered duck fast and I discovered that 100g per …

Our local Vietnamese butcher has great pork. Slowcooked pork and lemongrass curry Definitately worth doing. In this first time I went heavy on the pumpkin and also added a sweet potato, and it worked well with more vegetables.   I tried pork spare ribs as well, they could have been better, but perhaps this offers …

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H did some fast talking, and we agreed to make New Year cake.  I used this recipe.  I bought the wrong type of rice flour, but it still worked and was palatable.   I wonder if the different flour would change the consistency, as I had to add a lot of water to get the mix …

All Hail Smitten Kitchen.  This was a really great use of Rhubarb.  The only downside was it used 4 (!) mixing bowls.  A special occasion cake for guests, not an everyday cake.  Froze and thawed very well. ‘Big Crumb’ Coffeecake with Rhubarb Adapted from The New York Times 6/6/07 Butter for greasing pan For the rhubarb …

These are awesomely delicious and we should make them again.  They freeze well.  Makes quite a lot, would be excellent for Christmas gift biscuits. 2 1/2 cups (375g) self-raising flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 180g butter 1 cup (200g) …

A Rhubarb self saucing pudding with chopped rhubarb at the base. Nice idea, very very sweet. Warrants further investigation into a less sugary version for the future. 370g diced fresh or frozen rhubarb 125g plain flour 150g caster sugar 80ml milk 45g butter, melted 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract …