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Glass noodle salad

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:57:37 +0100

Soak the noodles in tap water and set aside.
Combine sauce ingredients and set aside.
Chop coriander and basil and set aside.
Thinly slice the onion, mince garlic, grate ginger, grate carrot coarsely and slice snow peas into matchsticks or slivers.
Roughly cut glass noodles into 3-inch lengths with kitchen scissors. Drain noodles in…

Mushroom Broccoli Spaghettini

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:13:44 +0100

Boil spaghettini in salted water until just before al dente.
Drain and set aside, reserving about 1/4 cup pasta water.
Saute garlic and mushrooms in olive oil in a pan.
When garlic is fragrant, add chopped broccoli, grated zucchini and stock cube.
Stir until cooked through.
Add pasta and water and cook until water is…

Cashew Pumpkin Pasta

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:14:46 +0100

Soak raw cashews in water for 30 min.
Fry or grill vegie sausages till cooked. Chop into bite-sized pieces and set aside.
Boil pasta in plenty of water.
In the meantime, drain cashews.
Process cashews, pumpkin, tahini sauce, garlic, stock cube and a little water in a food processor till creamy. Add more…

Butter chicken (Murgh Makhani)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:33:49 +0100

Heat butter till it's frothy.
Add sliced onions and cinnamon and fry on medium heat till onions are soft and translucent.
Add garlic and ginger and stir through.
Add turmeric, coriander and chili powder and fry till fragrant.
Coat…

Cherry Frangipane Tart

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:57:04 +0100

Pastry-making can be a mysterious and tiresome science to 'instinct' cooks: the sort who gleefully deviate from recipes to follow whatever their noses and tastebuds demand at the time.

But an exact science it is, and one that goes beyond just flavour. The proof, they say, is in the…

Moroccan Stuffed Capsicum

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:28:14 +0100

Preheat oven to 180 deg celsius
Mix the spices for the Moroccan spice blend and set aside.
Break up the cube into a measuring jug. Add boiling water and stir briefly till dissolved.
Add couscous and sultanas and cover jug. Set aside.
Wash, halve and clean the capsicums for stuffing, removing the stem and…

Cream Custard Puffs

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:29:26 +0100

Preheat oven to 200 degrees celsius
Line baking trays with baking paper
Thoroughly mix custard powder and caster sugar with milk and water
Heat on low, stirring constantly for 2 min until it thickens
Set aside to cool in fridge
Heat water, milk and butter till it just starts to boil and butter melts
Add all…

Anzac biscuits

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:11:53 +0100

These 'biscuits' stand patriotically defiant in the lexical hierarchy of baked goods. I've met Aussies who rant over the perceived cultural wipeout by the term 'cookie' and they still hold on to their 'biscuits' while they can.

Preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius and line baking trays with baking paper.

Sift…

Spiced Roast Cauliflower salad

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:45:02 +0100

This was inspired by the cauliflower salad at Melbourne restaurant Cumulus Inc. and the Jamie Oliver roast cauliflower recipe.
I loved the grainy yet tender texture of the chickpea-sized cauliflower bits. The natural sweetness is intensified…

Roast Garlic Aioli

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:22:15 +0100

I hosted a baby party lunch today for 3 couples, each with babies of various ages and walking abilities. As I had no baby of my own to brandish, I instead served up a toddler-sized roast chook and about 5 salads... and this roast garlic aioli.

Peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:27:44 +0100

My cookies are usually hard and crunchy, so here's an attempt at making them a little lighter by:

properly creaming the butter and peanut butter
double-sifting the flour
folding rather than beating in the flour
quickly rolling the dough into balls.

And…

Double Choc Chip Cookies

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:26:29 +0100

Famous Amos. His cookies made my childhood. At the peak of the franchise madness, those sweet little shops with their Sweet 'Lil Bags were perched in a little corner of virtually every shopping centre on Orchard Rd in Singapore.

This is a variation on them, and…

Banana Coconut Cupcakes

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:44:07 +0100

This was a special order from a friend who wanted "Ooh, ooh, light pink, VERY VERY light pink, please!" frosting on her special birthday cupcakes.

I started out toasting the coconut to sprinkle over them, but changed my mind and chucked them in the mix.…

Brown rice chicken

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:59:06 +0100

What we had for dinner tonight, which was really leftovers thrown into a baking dish and made interesting with a squeeze of tangy lemon juice, white wine and piquant green olives.

If the cheese gets OTT, the lemon helps slice through the heaviness. And the…

Red velvet cupcakes

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:35:04 +0100

Preheat oven to 180 deg celsius.
Line cupcake pans with paper cupcake liners.
Sift all the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Set aside.
Whisk the wet ingredients together until it combines smoothly.
Gradually sift and fold the dry ingredients mixture into the wet mixture.
Pour mixture into cupcake liners…

Creamy Mushroom Soup with turkish toast

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:51:50 +0100

Heat olive oil and butter on medium heat.

Add onion and fry still slightly softened.

Add garlic and stir for another 5 min.

Add mushrooms and coat in oil, onion and garlic.

Add white wine and cook till mushrooms soften.

Add 1 cup water and…

Prawn, garlic shoot and shiitake mushroom stir-fry

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:48:38 +0100

Soak dried shiitake mushrooms in a bowl of hot water for 30 min.

Mix marinade ingredients in a bowl and add prawns/shrimp. Leave for 30 min.

Julienne the carrots into 2-inch matchsticks.

Rinse garlic shoots and slice into 2-inch lengths.

Chop cup mushrooms into thick slices.

Potato, crispy prosciutto and rocket salad

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:09:31 +0100

Bring a pot of salted water to the boil.

Quarter the potatoes and boil for 10 minutes or until tender.

Place eggs in a saucepan of room temperature water and heat on medium-high flame for 15 minutes.

While potatoes and eggs are boiling, lay prosciutto out on…