Before I forget
venison pate with sourdough baguette and olives mashed potato and hazelnut pesto with black pig prosciutto, asparagus and broad beans duck, forest mushroom…
dinners
Macadamia Crusted Lamb Rack with other things
Clean-up of pantry (2006 was a busy year for shopping apparently) yielded a bag of macadamia nuts and hence. Crust is equal parts macadamia nuts and…
Tenth Anniversary Dinner
Can you knock off work, get to the shops, attend to jobs like bathing child, and bang out a very respectable 10th anniversary dinner? Yes you can. Get…
Steamed Buns and Peking Duck
Just because I think that a month or so is long enough for a picture of a box of broadbeans. Here are some steamed buns I made for a dinner party a month or…
Ducklava
Birthday necessitated dinner party as part of week long 'festival of birthday'. Ducklava Don't know where this idea came from. I guess if you…
Another Sunday Roast
Mag's been put to bed so that means…Sunday roast. A few helpful things: Lamb You can make a nice lamb stuffing with (roughly) a cup of fresh…
Lazy Sunday Late Lunch
Duck Liver and Pork Terrine A terrine is a nice enough way to get back into cooking and it gave me a good reason to give my 70's moulinex a bit of a…
New Year’s Eve Dinner 2006
Following on the heels of last year's New Year's Eve Dinner party for 11 we thought we'd try again with 16 and a n extra course in there. Sue…
Chilli Pumpkin Ragout and Cherry Clafoutis
I don't like pumpkin. The leverage required to slice through one says missing fingers and the name, because of joke I was once told, says hillbilly…
A Dinner for guests from Singapore
Mr Chubby d'Hubby of Singapore was in town for a wedding a little while ago and I insisted, *insisted* that he come over to my place for dinner in the…