Not many words to say here really!
In Adelaide, summer is in full flight and eating gets a little harder!
Smoked Salmon, Parmesan Filo Wafers
Category: Recipes
Buttermilk Chicken, Polenta Crumbed Okra with House Made Tartare Sauce
I have talked about “Dude Food” several times, I just have a huge fascination with it. To me, it’s about comfort. I love cooking and eating food that’s tasty, easy to eat and easy to recognize.
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Chili Con Carne Mac and Cheese
One of my dreams is to one day own a mac and cheese food truck!
You can just about make any flavour and then toss it through macaroni and bake it. Imagine all the things you like, then mix it in with macaroni. For example, I love chili and chili con carne, mix it in with macaroni, put cheese on top and and bake it in the oven and you have chili mac and cheese. You can also have it cold like a salad like they do in the Philippines. There they have a salad with macaroni, its usually with pineapple, ham, palm seeds, cheddar cheese and coconut dressed with mayonnaise or sour cream, sounds weird but bloody tasty stuff.
Chili Con Carne, Tortilla, Salsa, Guacamole
One of my favourite things to eat is chili!
I have grown up eating chili since I can remember. As a kid, I remember eating our meals around a huge table which my grandmother would cook for. I had aunts, uncles, cousins and sisters around that table, including my grandmother, who would share a chair with me. As I ate, I remember the many condiments that accompanied every meal.
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Baked Chili Beef Ribs
Photo by Jun Pang
Secondary cuts of meat are trendy these days. Whether it be lamb, pork or beef, secondaries have come around from the past to be trendy once again. In the past, it was almost a necessity to use secondary cuts of meat and offal for survival. The harsh financial times of the past forced a lot of people to be creative with cheaper cuts of meat. Stories told by grandmothers, telling us about cooking pigs head, ox tails and trotters; ribs, shins and belly seemed so unreal when we were younger. We could never imagine eating such things because our generation is so used to juicy, primal cuts of meat. These days, chefs have trended towards creating dishes with secondaries more and more not to make more money (because they are cheaper) but because punters are taking to liking the wonderful creations that chefs come up with using bits of meat that would other wise be used for mince perhaps. The cooking methods for these secondary cuts is usually long, this is to extract as much flavour from the cut and to break down the tougher muscles. Cooking methods like braising, slow roasting, confit and these days, sous vide (where it is becoming a regular cooking method for chefs). As a result of slow cooking, I believe that it produces a tender, tastier, juicier end product.
Sisig
I grew up eating Filipino food and many of the dishes have created great life memories for me and Sisig is one that stands out.
The first time I had Sisig was when I visited the Philippines as an adult. My friend and I thought it would be a great life experience to visit the Philippines on our way to Ireland. We spent two weeks in Manila, the capital of Philippines with my uncle and cousins. It was then that I was introduced to Sisig and the delicacies of Filipino bar food.
Richard Gunner Fine Meats Beef Ribs w Chipotle Sauce
Picture by Martine Robert of ChompChomp.com.au
Well, here it is guys, the recipe for the tender RGFM beef rib with chipotle sauce.
One of the other dishes that went down well for the 2012 Eat.Drink.Blog dinner were these awesomely tender beef ribs with chipotle sauce. I have a deep fascination with secondary cuts of meat, I love them. Growing up, I hardly saw primary cuts being served on our dining table at home. My mum or my grandmother would cook with predominantly secondary cuts like ox tail, ribs, beef tendons etc. Beef ribs was used in a Filipino dish called sinigang; my mum would use either pork ribs or beef ribs, either way, it was braised in a stock flavoured with tamarind for hours until the meat is so tender it almost falls apart especially when you try to sneak one out of the pot, which was often for me because I would always try and pinch one out of the pot before they were served.
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Grilled Corn with Roasted Garlic Aioli & Parmesan
It never ceases to amaze me that the simplest thing is often the most enjoyed by many people. I guess I have had my head in the clouds for far too long, thinking that top end food is the key to success in this field but I am constantly reminded that people just want “good food”.
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of cooking for Eat.Drink.Blog conference. I nervously cooked for seventy odd bloggers.
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Baked Sour Dough with Brie and Chive Butter, Green Tomato Chutney
Photo by Jun Pang
So, we have been through compound butters before.
If you can’t remember, a quick re-cap. It is basically “flavoured” butter. Simply put, you take softened butter, place it in a mixer and add flavourings such as nuts, herbs etc. Depending on what you are going to use the butters for will depend on the ingredients you put into the butter for flavour. For example, chopped herbs with lemon zest will go great with flavouring fish, a little bit of Jus (refined juices from a roast, most home cooks would call it “gravy”) and some type of fruit jelly with chopped herbs would go great with grilled beef and so on.
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Crispy Spatchcock with Pineapple & Capsicum in Shaoxing
Photo By Jun Pang
When I was a kid, I used to eat a lot of Filipino food. I found that they used to fry a lot of food like pork belly, fish and chicken until it was really crispy, so crispy that you can eat the entire thing, bones and all.
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