All Recipes and Skills

How to Make a Smoking Ancho Chilli Purée

There’s nothing quite like the intensity and flavour of a chilli purée – especially one that is made from dried chillies. Although you don’t get that freshness associated with just-picked

How to Create a Recipe – Local Purple Cauliflower

I think the way forward with respect to cooking is a throwback to how the traditional French restaurant would prepare its menu. The chef would rise early, go to the

How to Make a Classic Hollandaise – Video

Some extra notes: Hollandaise sauce is one of the classic French mother sauces. It is essentially an egg-emulsified butter sauce and as such a good hollandaise should have the butter

Vietnamese Style Cantaloupe

During a sabbatical to Hanoi in Vietnam I wrote a top ten list of my absolute must-try street food haunts; all of which were throughly researched (well eaten at) beforehand.

Finding That Cooking Spark – This Italian Sauce Did It

https://youtu.be/ifPJg20_xBs?si=WL0_6E3Ie53jQ59B Motivation to Cook – Where has it Gone? I’ve been cooking seriously for 20 years yet I have a fear – a fear of going in to the kitchen

EP #1 – Your Cooking Starts Here (And a Lemon Tart)

Here’s the printable version of the lemon tart recipe from the vlog.

The Perfect Smoky Coffee Cure for Beef (I’m Thinking Brisket)

This is a sweet, bitter, salty and spicy post. It’s a barbecue beef coffee cure that I worked on a few days ago and tested out on some slow-cooked brisket.

Succulent Slow Roasted Goat

There are a couple of times per year that a smell emanates from our neighbours’ garden that is intensely cruel solely because the wafts of delight have a propensity to

A Venezuelan Classic – Carne Mechada with Arepas

https://youtu.be/PoPmhU-GkAIAt my local coffee house there was this great barista, whose coffees were spot on and her jovial manner made it a pleasure to drop on by. One day she

Chicken Liver Pate with Calvados

https://youtu.be/s00I7pF6BuE Chicken livers cooked in Calvados, the apple infused brandy, adds a wonderful twist to this classic and amazing French pate.

Summery Brazilian Black Bean and Corn Salad

A couple of weeks ago me and my other half, minus the kids, had the privilege of leaving the inclement weather of a cold Melbourne for the much more favourable

Lentils, Hock and Roots – A Comforting Homemade Soup

The last time I tasted this soup I was but just a kid. I was transported immediately back to childhood on tasting it again a few days ago. I didn’t