I’ve been curing pork belly for ‘American’ style bacon for over a year now, and thought I would make some ‘Canadian/British/Australian’ style of bacon, which consists of the loin. Over here, you can get either ‘long-cut’ or ‘short-cut’ bacon, which essentially refers to whether the bacon consists of the loin and belly connected, or not,…
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Corned beef
Home made corned beef is definitely better than what you can buy…so much more flavour! I was short on a couple ingredients from what was suggested so I improvised. It was still great served warm, and will be great in sandwiches! Ingredients 5 lb (2.5 kg) beef brisket Brine 4 litres (1 gallon) water…
Garlic and red wine pork sausages
This recipe is from Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn. These sausages are succulent and juicy, with a robust garlic flavour and red wine base. I might have made them too garlicky, though, not that the recipe called for too much garlic but I used local Gippsland garlic I bought at a Farmer’s Market,…
Ham bone stock
No pics for this recipe, but I thought I would write it up nonetheless as it is so useful for soups. At work we buy in smoked hams on the bone, and cut the meat off for customers. When we’ve cut most the meat off, what’s left is about 1.5-2 kg (3-4 lb) of bone…
Pork and veal meatballs with curly pasta and parmesan
Each person you speak to will likely have a different recipe for the best meatballs. I still haven’t found them, and there very well may not be a single best recipe. I’ve tried beef alone, beef with pancetta, beef with bacon, pork and beef, addition of buttermilk, etc. All good. These have pork and veal…
Easter Friday Prawn Ravioli
Not that we’re religious, but we thought to have a meat-free dinner on Easter Friday (forget the bacon we had for breakfast!)…so I picked up some local prawns at the fishmonger, made some pasta ravioli, filled with prawn, and served with a simple tomato sauce. Once you get the feel for the proper consistency of…
Easter Friday Chocolate Pavlova with vanilla custard and caramel sauce
This recipe is an alternative to one found on Delicious by Katie Quinn Davies, mainly because the original called for spiced pears (which I’m so-so about) and mascarpone (which I didn’t have on hand). This is a relatively simple (yet time consuming) recipe. The result is 3 layers of absolute yum. Ingredients Pavlova 1 Tb…
Vegetable Bisteeya
This recipe comes from the Gourmet Farmer Deli Book, a cookbook about producing and cooking food the ‘way it used to be’. Amongst the different recipes for making cheeses, hams, bacon and smoking and curing fish, there are a lot of recipes for great dishes. This dish looks at first glance a spanakopita, but made…
White loaf bread with rolled barley flakes
Although I tend to push the boundary of wholesome, whole grains when making bread, sometimes it’s nice to just have a light, white loaf. This is basically what I’ve made, but with the umphhh of rolled barley for flavour, texture and health. Ingredients 450 g (1 lb) white bread flour 150 g (5.5 oz) rolled barley flakes…
Poached eggs on toast
Quick and simple to make, and yummy…Using a large, wide pot, bring some water to the boil and add about 1/4 cup vinegar for every 4 litres (1 gallon) water; the vinegar helps to fix the egg proteins. You don’t have to, but swirling the water just prior to adding an egg into the center…
Cornbread
An old favorite! With soup, buttered for breakfast with eggs, there are so many ways to enjoy cornbread. Ingredients Fresh corn from 3 cobs 2-3 Tb butter 1 cup milk 1 egg 3/4 cup plain flour 1+1/4 cup yellow/white corn meal 2.5 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt Saute corn in butter about…
Banana bread with coconut
Lots of extra over-ripe bananas! Ingredients 2/3 cup butter (~150 g) 1/3 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar grated lemon rind from 1 lemon 4 eggs 2.5 cups ripe banana (~4 large) 3.5 cups plain flour 5 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1 cup desiccated coconut Cream the butter and…
Day to Day Thoughts on Food 