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Spanish Eggs on Toast
// July 25th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Food
Mark and I have slipped into a routine of sleeping on on Sundays, when we eventually rise Mark watches the [boring] political analysis on The Insiders, I duck down to our local deli with Mischa and grab some ingredients for brunch. The deli and fruitshop called Feast on Fruit up the road is fantastic, they stock freshly baked artisan sourdough, free range eggs, parma ham, Spanish and Portugese choritzo sausages, a large range of cheeses and good priced fresh fruit, vegetables and large bunches of herbs. This recipe is customised from one I found on cuisine.co.nz.
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Sheepish Cracker Soup
// July 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Food, Fun Stuff
I saw this recipe on Design Sponge a while ago and bookmarked it for a day when I have the time to try it out. Last weekend, with miserable weather was perfect to be eating soup and spending time in the kitchen carefully cutting out the shapes for the sheep cracker. I guess he should be standing in a green soup, but the capsicum and tomato soup is one of my favourites, and so easy to make. I make a large batch and freeze the extra portions for later in the week or to have for lunch. Link to the template on Design Sponge is broken, so I redrew the sheep myself (PDF Here). I’d like to get the shapes made as cookie cutters, maybe I will svae the for a future project and get them made by Ponoko.
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No. 8 Hot Springs Club
// April 7th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Travel
Not an actual image. Image courtesey of weegolo.
Over the weekend I had a day off in Beijing and spent the day exploring Sanlitun, and area of the city I have not spent much time in. After a full day of walking and a spot of shopping I was exhausted, and headed off to No. 8 Hot Springs Club (No. 8 Chaoyang Park Road, near the west gate of Chaoyan Park [map].
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Spanish Prawns with Spicy Lentils
// March 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Food
This is also a new one. We are really into prawns at the moment, and are going through several kilos a week. I do feel sorry for the garbos having to cart away the shells each Tuesday. Lentils are another favourite of mine, they are very healthy and I love their nutty taste. Harissa is a North African hot chilli sauce commonly eaten in Morocco whose main ingredients are Peri Peri chili peppers, tomatoes and Paprika. It’s available from good deli’s and gourmet food shops.
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Blue Eye with Sundried Tomato Crust
// March 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Food
My first after-school job was in the seafood department at an Auckland supermarket. I remember taking large blocks of fish out of the freezer and thawing them, then placing them on ice with sprigs of plastic parsley in the display cabinet with little price tags that also stated thawed for your convinience. Then this would get packed away in fridges for the next day, and so on. One thing I really miss about Perth was having Kailis Bros fishmonger just down the road, I could be sure the fish was always fresh and there was always a large selection.
We tried this for the first time over the weekend, and it was a hit. This recipe will work with any firm white-fleshed fish. Now I need to find a good local fishmonger. The cooking method is to grill for 2 minutes under a hot grill, then bake for six minutes in a medium oven, our grill and oven are combined, so the instructions below are based on this.
Caramelised-Onion and Goats Cheese Pizza
// March 30th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Food
Pumpkin is Marks favourite food (along with kumara mango and more), so recipes that highlight the sweet flavour of pumpkin or butternut are always a hit in the Deverauxxx house. Check out the Cherry Tomato, Pancetta and Bocconcini Pizza too.
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Cherry Tomato, Pancetta and Bocconcini Pizza
// March 30th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Food
We are usually home around 7 from work and the gym, and mid-week meals need to be easy to avoid eating dinner at 10pm. I love making pizzas with home-made bases, but this is more of a weekend activity, so this version uses plain wraps for the base. Along with it’s pumpkin cousin this is so easy to make, and perfect for an easy midweek meal. We have a pair of pizza stones and start heating the oven early and get them nice and hot before placing the pizzas on them to get a crispy base. This recipe makes two pizzas, and we usually make two pumpkin at the same time, and have half of the the extra pizzas the next day for lunch.
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Planning for Foodies
// March 27th, 2010 // No Comments » // Food, Home
Since moving to Perth Mark and I have become very organised. The reason this started is due to Perth’s lack of late-night and Sunday trading, so we were forced to be very organised with our meal planning, and do a weekly shop on Thursday evening, the only night the supermarkets are open till 9, later than the usual 6pm. We have kept this up since moving back to Brisbane.
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