Salt Pepper & Lemon Dipping Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Vietnamese cooking class! The salt & pepper squid at Sydney’s Red Lantern Vietnamese restaurant is legendary. The thin crisp batter, tender loligo squid and use of fresh hot oil all contribute to its popularity. But for me it’s really just an excuse […]
Cozze Gratinate Eat cozze gratinate with me on a small-group Southern Italian food & wine tour – see video below! Cozze gratinate, often called mussels au gratin, is a recipe that busts the myth that seafood and cheese don’t go together in Italian cuisine. I don’t always love mussels, but when I have them like […]
Scallops with ‘Nduja Butter & Scamorza Who says seafood & cheese don’t mix? Discover more delicious seafood & cheese recipes! Vannella Cheese creative director, Anthony Silvio, and I put our heads together to bust the myth that seafood and cheese don’t mix. We discovered delicious traditional recipes combining seafood and cheese, and created a few […]
Gravlax Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class! ‘Gravad-lax’ means ‘buried salmon’ and refers to the ancient practice of wrapping salted fish in bark and burying it in the cold Scandinavian soil to preserve it through winter. While gravlax is normally prepared using a whole side of salmon, I have made it […]
Rosemary Focaccia Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Authentic focaccia is made with a generous amount of olive oil (see video below). Plenty of oil ensures your focaccia is moist and rich. Once you’ve mastered a basic focaccia recipe you can start having fun with toppings. Most […]
Onion Focaccia Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Ligurian restaurateur Lucio Galletto makes the most delicious focaccia I’ve tasted (see video below), so my recipe is inspired by his and uses plenty of delicate Ligurian-style olive oil. Lucio calls focaccia ‘Liguria’s answer to pizza’ and I see […]
Olive Focaccia Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! My olive focaccia recipe is inspired by Ligurian restaurateur Lucio Galletto, who uses more water and oil in his recipe than most I’ve seen (see video below). Liguria is famous for the tiny, tasty Taggiasche olives that make the […]
Roast Quail with Coriander Pesto Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class inspired by Matt Moran featuring easy Aussie dishes! I love roast quail, especially the larger, meaty Jurassic quail from Brisbane Valley. If you’re serving generous sides, I find half a Jurassic quail is enough for most people. Like all poultry, quail […]
Za’atar Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Za’atar simply means thyme in Arabic and the smell of wild thyme crushed underfoot as you walk through the hills in Lebanon is one of the most evocative aromas. Za’atar as a spice blend is a mixture of dried thyme, sumac (a ground tangy, […]
Prawn Cocktail with Avocado Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! No matter how retro, some recipes don’t go out of fashion because they simply taste good! Cooked prawns with crisp iceberg lettuce and tangy, pale pink cocktail sauce (sauce Marie Rose) is one such combination. Go full […]
