Garlic and red wine marinated kangaroo loin, red capsicum, red onion, garlic. Seared, medium rare. Rocket. Shaved parmesan. Takes about 5 minutes to prepare. The bomb.

I’ve decided rice ruins risotto.
Heat the hottest pan/skillet you have. Sear a thin(ish) veal fillet on all sides and set aside. Throw some more oil in the pan and chuck in three, quartered roma tomatoes, some large, long reciprocal chunks of mushroom and cane them until they cry and bleed. Keep it hot, add the [...]

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

The flavours and ideas are a mix of Greek and Spanish. You’ve got to dice the lamb yourself, it’s much juicier that way. Roll the bits in salt, rosemary and mint. Dice the eggplant, roll that in salt and rosemary, cook them seperately in olive oil, deglaze with fresh lime juice. Cook the beans, keep [...]

Cheap cuts or chops if you’ve got time to slice, buy it diced if you haven’t. Roll in flour, braise with garlic, onion and rosemary. Simmer on low heat for an hour with tomatoes and tomato paste. Blind bake the pastry base, add the (strained) filling (freeze the meat  juice for stock). Put the top [...]

Eggs benny, poached with Balsamic. Rocket, bacon, white toast. The right amount of cracked pepper. Sorted, yeah?

I found some links to these photos via Tumblr and then stumbled onto the Flickr Gallery. OMG are they kewt! Visit.

No garlic. That’s the rule. Silly I suppose when I have a kitchen full of it, but at least this dude won’t be bothering me. Garlic had become my crutch. I had to learn to walk without it.
Ingredients

Half a dozen or so of the shittest, cheapest lamb chops you can find, ripped in half
Handful of [...]

I was working on these over the weekend… Just for fun…

Caramelised pear and prosciutto salad with rocket, gorgonzola and candied pistachios.
Seared kangaroo loin with a sesame and ginger crust, served with watercress paste, caramelised fennel and radish salad

The presentation still needs work, these were just rough drafts snapped using my iPhone camera. More to come.

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 [...]