Keith Floyd – not at all dead
Keith Floyd – he's alive! ALIVE!! Sure we were curious as to what happened to that large boulder and were dead impressed when he offered us to pop our…
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Rack of Veal Cooked in Milk
I've just been painting the nursery (no not the one with the lamps) with this natural paint that's entirely mineral based and cuts down on the…
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…
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…
Clear Mackeral Soup, Golden Snapper with Artichoke Barigoule and Motor Reviews
My significant other-in-law Chris runs a charter fishing boat out of Darwin. He has five top fish and not only refuses to keep any fish outside of the five…
Croquembouche
Back when I was catering in the early nineties, my business partner Nic would always talk about making a croquembouche one day. "It's gonna be…
Beef Wellington, Topless Seafood Pies, Rice Pudding
Ha! The French, inventing a dish that used the favourite meal of the English, therosbif, and then naming it after a waterproof boot. Touché! as they say This…
Happy birthday to meeeeeeeee
Well yeah it was my birthday weekend. I'd tried for birthday week of celebration to get make all sorts of unreasonable demands but no such luck. I am a…
Porc a l’orange with braised fennel
Obviously I don't blog everything I've cooked for the past week but in this case, apart from poached eggs, this is everything I've cooked. A…
Tart Sandwich
Fack! A perfectly good post down the cyberhole after a frozen firefox. I think I'll go and sulk and fill in the bits later when I get a moment/cheer up.…