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Red Wine Braised Lamb Shanks
Today, friends, I have a fantastic weekend dinner for you. One that you let cook all afternoon and then sit down with good wine and good company to savor. It’s the kind of dish you take a bite of and melt right into. The kind where you take your time to eat and drag it out because there’s good food, good wine and good conversation and you have nowhere you’d rather be. These are my favorite kind of meals.
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Split Pea and Ham Soup
Winter is quickly approaching here in Australia. I love winter cooking! It gets colder and you want to turn the stove and oven on and you crave the hot bowls of soup and stew.
Last week we had a rainy coldish day and I jumped right on it with an easy one pot winter meal. Split pea and ham soup did the trick! Pea and ham soup is a great one to make when you’ve had a big family ham dinner and have a bone left over. However, no need to wait until then to whip up a pot. Check with your butcher for ham hocks (I’ve seen them call bacon hocks here too) or go to the deli and ask there. Many times they will have ham bones on hand. I found mine at Queen Vic Market in the deli hall. He was quite happy to sell it to me and there was still a fair bit of meat on the bone.
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Fish Stew
Hello friends. Long time no chat. It had to happen eventually though, right? A new post? Here it is!
So 2015…. not my best year for blogging. I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t be able to find a single soul to disagree. But that’s the lovely thing about life right? We get to start again. Let’s put 2015 blogging in past and move forward shall we? It might take a bit to get back into the swing of things but I will. Like riding a bike and all, right? I think so, but please stick with me until my writing gets a bit less clumsy. And wait until you get a look at these photos!! Shocking!!!!
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Beef Tenderloin Bites with Caramelized Onions
Serving beef tenderloin for a dinner party with friends is indeed luxurious. If you are like me, funding a beef tenderloin dinner is well, a little more expensive than the budget allows. These little beef tenderloin bites are the perfect solution! They are decadent and delicious, your guests will love them, they are totally doable on a budget and they are a cinch to put together. -
Christmas Recap and Prawn Cocktail
The holiday season was SO busy for us, but I’m guessing that statement is not unique to me. I hope you all have had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I know I was so spoiled with not one, not two, but THREE Christmases! How does a girl get so lucky? I had one with my family in November in the US, one with just my better half in the middle of December in Perth and a third with his family on Christmas in Melbourne. It was a whirlwind of food and family and presents too! -
Oven Roasted Potatoes with Thyme and Onions
Forgive me friends, it has been nine days since my last post. My how time flies!
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Philly Cheesesteak Pizza – Leftover Revamp
Just the other week I made us a roast beef dinner. It was really good. Very tender and served with homemade gravy and roasted potatoes and vegetables. I bought the smallest roast I could and even though we ate plenty, there was still so much leftover. I mean a roast for just two people? You go into it knowing you’ll be making more than one meal of it.
After a few days of sandwiches and a dinner of open faced hot roast beef sandwiches with gravy I still had roast beef leftover! Really. It was time for this roast to be finished.
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Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings with Buffalo Bleu Cheese Dip
By now you’ve probably come to realize that I quite like chicken wings. So it also should not be a surprise that I jumped on the band wagon when I was asked by a fellow expat to create these Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings for her.
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Lamb Ragu
I once entered into a pasta sauce cooking competition with my team at work. We were to each make a pot of our own homemade sauce and we would be judged by our peers. So I made sauce!! And it was good!! Really good!! And I lost…. The sauce I made was a really fantastic red sauce with small meatballs. Compared to the sauce that won, mine wasn’t particularly hearty and considering I was feeding a team of ten men, it was a big error on my part. I didn’t cook to my audience. I wanted my audience to love what I wanted to make. Lesson learned eh? -
Fourth of July Series part 4 ~ Carolina Burger Sliders
Hello and welcome to the last installment of the Fourth of July recipe series. I started a few days back with a great Lynchburg Lemonade cocktail made with homemade sour mix for your celebration. I then threw in a mayo-free Bow Tie Pasta Salad with Basil Vinaigrette. Yesterday we talked about Oven Fried Chicken Sliders and today we round out the Fourth of July menu with Carolina Burger Sliders.
