Orange Chilli Dipping Sauce

Peel from 1.5 oranges or so, loosely chopped, don’t get too excited
1 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup ginger, loosely chopped, skin on, be lazy
2 tbsp honey
1 roughly chopped chilli
1 finely diced chilli
Fish sauce

Simmer that and reduce it to a syrup which is somewhere between water and honey in viscosity. Strain the syrup [...]

Oh Kylie Kwong. I heart you so very much. Especially your snapper.

So let’s ‘pretend’ there’s an audition coming up for a cooking show on Australian TV, just hypothetically and for example. Let’s say you had to bring in a dish that used technique but didn’t need refrigeration or heating. I’m thinking something like this citrus cured salmon could be ideal. Or perhaps even cerviche (although I [...]

You have to love Matt Moran’s work. Its the law, but scallops with pan fried with sweet corn puree, cauliflower beignet (essentially deep-fried caulifower in dough) and a caper and sultana dressing? I just saw that on the Aria Brisbane lunch menu. Not sure how I feel about that.