Sadly, not made with lamb’s heart. Just in heart shapes. I had to make dinner for 8 last night on a $5 a head budget in one hour. I diced a cheap leg into pie-size pieces, braised the bits and pulled it off with money and time to spare. The rocket was a little weary [...]

Doesn’t sound very appealing if you’re a meat-eater does it, but look at the photo. Holy cow, it’s enough to turn you vegetarian. I found this in Map Magazine, they got it from The Eastern and Oriental Cookbook by Will Ricker.  I’ve never been a big fan of bean curd, but next time one of [...]

Vegetarian, toasted. Fetta, Pumpki, spinach, thinly sliced spanish onion
Price: $7.90
Pros: Fantastic tortilla, perfect mix of flavours, perfectly toasted
Cons: Not quite filling enough for my manly stomach desires and $7.90 isn’t exactly a bargain
Verdict: It’s the closest wrap to the office so the economics work out well

I started messing around with mirin a while ago, but now that I have my own brand new shit-hot BBQ I can really start teppanyaking like a king. The corn came out the best. Slightly charred on the char-grill, I basted the kernels with sweet sweet mirin, finely diced garlic and melted butter. I had [...]

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.

I must be having a menu fetish this week. Campos in James Street just won an award for best cafe in Brisbane so I thought I’d check it out. I didn’t have time to stop and eat or get a coffee, but they gave me a copy of the menu. They change it every couple [...]

I’m starting a wrap tour of Brisbane in order to find the best tortilla-based sandwich in town. This may take a while. Today I went to Quench at The James St Markets. I had the lamb wrap with rocket, lots of rocket, some rocket, rocket, rocket leaves, rocket stems, rocket and I think there was [...]

For a pub on the fringe of the CBD the grub is absolutely divine, at least on paper. I don’t know who they hired to create the à la carte menu, but it’s clearly not the same person doing the cooking! This isn’t a restaurant reviews blog so I won’t chastise, just make sure you [...]

Anna was eating this and I asked her what it was because it looked great. She said it was a BBQ chicken torn into pieces with some roasted pumpkin, lettuce, capsicum and Paul Newman’s Classic Caesar Dressing. Three bucks a serve, if that. Looks better than my Cannelloni (although the iPhone camera could make Scarlett [...]

If I had a signature dish it would be this. Perhaps it’s the songwriter in me, but I just love food that rhymes. ‘Kangaroo ragout’ has the cutest ring to it. I cooked it for my Dad’s birthday yesterday and he didn’t know what a ragout was, so he christened it ‘Skippy Stew’ instead. That [...]