Tag Archives: Melbourne food
A dish to crow about?
This could be a long, slow-cooked post but that’s only fitting. After all, it took Maggie and I three days to turn a rooster into a meal of my favourite poultry casserole – Coq au vin! First, some personal, historical … Continue reading
Sunday scones
Last Sunday morning we baked two batches of scones, one sweet, the other savoury. Maggie likes to take a scone to work for morning tea and both of these scone varieties can be frozen then reheated successfully in a microwave … Continue reading
Lots of pepper on a last supper
What will we eat on the last evening on which we will be have time to cook a meal from scratch? (Thursday’s pre-flight dinner will comprise various leftovers, delish but dullish.) Well, there were two pieces of rump steak in … Continue reading
Poulterer’s Pie
For this dish, we have overhauled an on-line recipe for chicken pot pies with puff pastry lids, ditched the pastry and added a layer of mashed potato as in the well-known Shepherd’s Pie. The result is very tasty and reheats … Continue reading
A fresh apple cake
A few posts back, I mentioned that I would be baking an apple cake; this would provide morning tea for Maggie at work, including some pieces for her immediate colleagues, and for me to snack on in the days leading … Continue reading
Love that duck!
We are a little obsessed about duck, forever tracking down suppliers of quality fresh duck, looking for new duck recipes, reflecting on our palate experiences and tweaking our established duck repertoire. However, one particular duck recipe has met our exacting … Continue reading
A peach of a dish
Since May 2013, we have been making extensive use of My Umbrian Kitchen by Patrizia Simone. (Patrizia is famous in Victoria for the restaurant she and her husband established in the country town of Bright, in the north-east of our … Continue reading
Another Saturday afternoon in the kitchen
We were supposed to be going to a 21st birthday party last Saturday night. However, we are not party animals, unless it is a party involving three or four courses of delicious food, up to six guests and several bottles … Continue reading
What we cooked on Sunday
A careful reading of my previous post would reveal a mystery – what did we eat on Sunday? And did it involve any meat, as everything we bought at the butcher on Saturday has been accounted for? Well, I forgot … Continue reading
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