tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55815302009-07-15T20:47:21.220+08:00gustus elementa per omnia quaeruntAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849240671473744463noreply@blogger.comBlogger655125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5581530.post-80253097011261295032009-07-06T20:04:00.002+08:002009-07-06T20:12:21.540+08:00

I think this meal would take approximately one hour and a half to two hours to serve and eat, allowing for conversation.While the hostess tidies the dining-room and kitchen the guests will have time to collect their coats and prepare to leave for the dance at approximately 9.30 pmMrs Roseann Johnston The Australian Hostess Cookbook (1969)

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The good thing about Melton Mowbray is not only that it sounds like a place in Leicestershire, it actually is a place in Leicestershire. It's also modifies the noun 'pie' to make a pie from said town that uses fresh rather than cured pork. The addition of eggs makes it a 'gala' pork pie and if the first thing you thought of was Dali's wife, you'll probably enjoy this.Melton Mowbray pie has EU

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With issue 15 away, I just had a family weekend at Rottnest and I couldn't recommend it more.It's a rocky outcrop 12 miles off the coast of Perth that's covered with scrub and salt lakes and tiny rat-like kangaroos that shit everywhere.Accommodation is ex-prison, turn of the century worker's cottage, post-WWII migrant camp, or 1970's unit complex for upper level Soviet bureaucrats. The only

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You can stop blurry photos like the above with a tripod, which is a three-legged thing. It's interesting to note that there are few naturally occurring three-legged things.*Tajines, and stop me if you've heard this before, refer to both the lidded slow cooking dish and the slow-cooked braise that's cooked in it. English is reluctant to accept such ambiguity and if you've ever almost eaten a

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Unagi looks like the hiragana character for 'U' in Japanese, making it a handy mnemonic. There's no equivalently useful food in English.There's a special day reserved in Japan for eating stamina-giving eel, which I referred to as 'unagi day' but is in fact called doyo no ushinohi. If you wanted to make a joke, you could call it doyo no ushirohi, which is eel buttocks day, which is actually pretty

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As the first forkful of scampi sidled gingerly into his mouth, my friend's head snapped still in surprise, then began to oscillate gently in ecstatic bemusement. "I can't believe it," he whispered. "I didn't give the place a chance. When the waitress said, 'Is there anywhere you'd like to sit?' I wanted to say Melbourne. Or Belmarsh. Anywhere but here. This is bizarre."Firstly, forkfuls of scampi

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Congrats are due to Kylie Kwong who's to be wed to Julie Gibbs, if Zoe is correct (and I've no reason to think she isn't). In a burst of presentimentality on Monday, I made one of her rock lobster* dishes. It's classic Kwong and this is handy to know.For example, when jamming, it's made significantly more productive when you have the convenience of going - "How about something that goes 'chug

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Ooh issue 13 of SPICE - Western Australia's only non-lifestyle magazine. Cracking cover photo by Craig Kinder of Riki Kaspi of Blakes Cafe in Mt Lawley.I'm still riding the roller coaster of emotions in making a mag from 'I don't think I can do this' to ' when will this issue ever be finished' to 'if I could just spend a few quiet days with my playstation and not think about it' before soaring to

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what a salmon and cream pasta might look like were it a pig-shaped mosquito coil burnerOlive oil, thinly sliced clove of garlic, two slices of chopped smoked salmon, juice of half a lemon, splash of sherry, finely chopped rind of a lemon and a handful of fennel leaves, 200ml of cream, and pepper. In that order in about 30 second intervals in a frypan. Mix in with linguine with parmesan cheese.

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venison pate with sourdough baguette and olivesmashed potato and hazelnut pesto with black pig prosciutto, asparagus and broad beansduck, forest mushroom and chinese greens risotto2002 Peacetree Cabernet Sauvignon in a Bulgarian crystal decantertart fine aux pommeslocal cheeses with oatcakes and fennel crackerslaphroaig quarter cask with iceFurther notes:Duck, being fatty, doesn't really lend

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I've been in 70s, researching the feasibility of pine as a material for constructing kitchen cupboards. Fortunately, an eddy in the space-time continuum opened up due to the Large Hadron Collider allowed me to return to the present. Anyway they've got these things called Chicken Kiev and if you mash up a couple finely minced garlic cloves with some sage thyme and parsley and a splash of tabasco

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Keith Floyd - he's alive! ALIVE!! Sure we were curious as to what happened to that large boulder and were dead impressed when he offered us to pop our fingers in the wounds all the while casually emptying a couple of bottles of Pouilly Fume but really we were just happy to have him back. What we really liked about him (apart from being the only person apart from Mark Oliver Everett that can wear

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Much more so than strolling through Bangkok in a pale flared Pierre Cardin suit and smoking Sobranie cocktail cigarettes, making sausages has always defined exoticism for me. There's been a sausage shaped hole in my life and on the weekend, I filled it - in abundance.Simple principle - everyone brings their favourite meat mix, we make sausages and we eat them. The fact that no-one, including

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Clean-up of pantry (2006 was a busy year for shopping apparently) yielded a bag of macadamia nuts and hence.Crust is equal parts macadamia nuts and breadcrumbs with some chopped parsley tossed in. Just press on top. You can brown, as I did, the rack beforehand if you like. Marinade is EVOO red wine vinegar, rosemary and smoked paprika.Minikin is stuffed with couscous, butter, chicken stock, dried

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Monday has been declared Marine Monday (or ultramarine monday if you like New Order).My two serves of Red Throated fackmeIhadnoideaitwouldcostthatmuch Emperor unexpectedly had to stretch to three people. This causes issues; not because I'm a stingy bastard but because the more you've spent on a piece of fish, the less you want to clutter it up with other plate filling distractions and stodge. I

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Can you knock off work, get to the shops, attend to jobs like bathing child, and bang out a very respectable 10th anniversary dinner? Yes you can.Get oysters from reputable fishmonger (shucked - unless spending that special night with a DIY stigmata is your thing).Get a lime. Lop the ends off. Segment. And then trim off the central pith.Buy goat's cheese and leave to soften on the bench.Buy

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Umm last week. There was a tablespoon or so of fennel seeds, a couple of cloves of garlic, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, a couple of tablespoons of Mallee honey, a few drops of Firehorse hot sauce, a tablespoon of finely chopped orange rind, and half an orange. I used one of them fancy Jamie Oliver flavour shaker thingies, which worked pretty well. First up was to crush the fennel seeds,

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A lot of people have been asking me what I did with that tin of tin of Bulgarian not-feta that I bought a while back. Well the answer is nothing, but then I used some to make leftover sausage scrambled eggs (slice the sausage thinly, fry up in a bit of harissa and pretend it's chorizo) with not-feta. It's not-feta because it's Bulgarian white brined cheese. I'd assumed this was part of the

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It's been quite a big fortnight for me and I mean quite big in the same way that a werewolf Sean Connery would be quite hairy (although not on top, which would raise the possibility of a combover werewolf; terrifying yet also funny in a sad kind of way. "You know you're not fooling anyone...aiiiieeeeeeee")Anyway two weeks ago Eva was born and it does not so much turn your life upside down as

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As a believer in music as the companion of all good things　in life, I've always been taken by Californian friend and how on the day his child was born, Beautiful Day by U2 came on the radio and he started crying. As I drove home in what would be a quick stop on the way to hospital the iPod gave me What's Inside a Girl? by the Cramps. Three and a half hours later I found out.It's another girl.

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Sure it's not your 'Gordon Bleu' but when Toni comes back at t minus three weeks and wants shepherds pie even though its in the mid- thirties, then it gets made. Unfortunately she bought beef mince which means its technically cowboy pie. Traditionally you would make it using leftover roast lamb or mutton and wiggle your eyebrows lasciviously every time you said 'Shepherds Pie'.There's no

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If you're like me, you've probably boiled a chicken and thought 'What am I going to do with all this chicken water?'. Well don't chuck it out.Mash the chopped whites of a couple of spring onions in a mortar and pestle and then add a teaspoon of cracked pepper and a couple of tablespoons of fish oil. Then add the meat of half a dozen tiger prawns and mash it lightly. Leave for ten minutes.Chuck

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Well it seemed pretty damned nice in the cool confines of the Simon Johnson cheese room but in the light of day we described it as a combination of a well lanolined shearer's crotch with the appearance of leprosy.Happy New Year btw.

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I've just been painting the nursery (no not the one with the lamps) with this natural paint that's entirely mineral based and cuts down on the associated non-biodegradable toxic waste. Unfortunately it's like painting with coffee. It flies everywhere and after two coats it still looks like an undercoat (it takes three). I've often wondered what painting in the 17th century was like, know I know.

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Just because I think that a month or so is long enough for a picture of a box of broadbeans.Here are some steamed buns I made for a dinner party a month or so. They have been on the list of things to make and haven't been because they've always seemed something suspiciously white and fluffy. In Japan where they're sold as surrogate pies in 7-11's as nikuman they're not unlike a meat-filled

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