I’ve been writing a number of reviews for Google Places recently and by way of thanks for all my hard work (I’m so industrious at times) I was invited to an evening of canine marvelling at Hudson Meats. What commenced was a night two parts butchery demonstration and one part food banter in the salubrious […]
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Red Wine-Braised Short Ribs w Gremolata (Daring Cooks’ March, 2012 Challenge)
March 14, 2012 
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The March, 2012 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by Carol, a/k/a Poisonive – and she challenged us all to learn the art of Braising! Carol focused on Michael Ruhlman’s technique and shared with us some of his expertise from his book “Ruhlman’s Twenty”. This is my first Daring Kitchen challenge since November 2010 (*slap on wrist*) […]
Read more How To Prepare Aubergines For Cooking
November 20, 2010 0 Comments
This simple ‘How To’ recipe will give you sweet, succulent aubergines (that’s eggplants to all the Australians out there) every time. Until recently aubergine was a vegetable I loved to eat but I was never happy with it when I prepared it myself – it always had the tendency to have a slightly bland and […]
Read more Oven Dried Tomatoes, and How to Preserve Them
September 19, 2010 0 Comments
The September 2010 Daring Cooks’ challenge was hosted by John of eat4fun. John chose to challenge The Daring Cooks to learn about food preservation, mainly in the form of canning and freezing. He challenged everyone to make a recipe and preserve it. John’s source for food preservation information was from The National Center for Home […]
Read more How To: Perfectly Boiled Pasta Recipe
May 27, 2010 0 Comments
Subtitle: You Mean Cooking Pasta Doesn’t Have To Include Throwing It At The Wall?? Too many cooks sometimes spoils the broth, but in this case it made for a rather hilarious revelation. Pepo (Italian agritourism owner, self made chef, Sicilian food conesuir), Sego (French traveller, fellow foodie) and I were discussing our methods to check […]
Read more Home Made Tomato Sauce
May 22, 2010 1 Comment
It seems almost obligatory in Italy to make home made tomato sauce (the kind for pasta, not the kind you dollop on chips and pies) because during summer there are an utter abundance of cheap, ripe tomatoes around so anyone who’s anyone with a kitchen gets to buying a couple of boxes full and bottling […]
Read more Pasta Round Two – Lets Add Some Colour
May 22, 2010 1 Comment
Having found my feet during the first pasta making lesson, I’ve revisited (and upgraded the complexity of) the recipe, this time without Tiziana’s watchful eye. I experimented with coloured pasta, namely red (tomato) and green (spinach) and the result was rewarding, and incidentally rather delicious. Recipe: Spinach and Ricotta Coloured Ravioli Serves 6 (printable recipe) […]
Read more First Ever Pasta Making Session – A Success!
May 20, 2010 2 Comments
Since arriving at Casa Di Tizzie for our 3 week stay I’ve been salivating for the promised pasta-making lesson, and it did not disappoint. We dove straight into ravioli and chose to fill it with pumpkin simply because we’d found a massive pumpkin in the garden and it needed using. The filling in this recipe […]
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