Thai Red Duck Curry

I know what you’re thinking…how can this goose, blog a red duck curry, that’s primarily yellow in colour???  I keep asking myself that very same question, but as I ponder the answer I’m shoving mouthfuls of this AMAZING curry into my mouth.  I’ve made pastes before…I’ve used bottled pastes as well, but NOTHING comes even close to this curry.

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Say Goodbye to your waisteline as you once knew it – Chocolate Mud Ice Cream

You can kiss your waist line goodbye with this ice cream…I apologise upfront to those who are trying to lose weight…You won’t be able to resist this ice-cream because it’s beyond amazing!  Think creamy dark chocolate mousse that is lightly frozen… a little like semifreddo.

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January 24 Potted Garden Update

Meet Harriet the Jalopeno chilli.  She came to live with us today.  She’s a mature tree with a fair bit of fruit already growing so she got a sassy looking electric blue pot.  I have big plans for the fruit that Harriet bears.  I’ll be smoking some to make chipotle’s, i’ll be bottling some in oil so i have chilli infused oil to cook with and I’m hoping to make pickles and good some fabulous Mexican dishes with them.  In other chilli news, we have four other bushes full of fruit.  Mr SuziWong was very happy with the flavour and texture of the chillies even though they weren’t overly hot.  He said they had a “bit of bite once you get to the seeds”.

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Pulau Rice

Are you looking for an interesting and incredibly tasty alternative to steamed rice to have with your curry?  Have you thought about pulau rice?  We call in pea rice…just one of those lazy family names!

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The night Dexter came to dinner – Char Siu

pork marinade

You could be forgiven for thinking Dexter has been dining at our house :lol: …this picture is seriously scary!  It’s two pork neck fillets in a marinade that includes red colouring.  If you haven’t already guessed I’m making Chinese BBQ pork…more commonly known as Char Siu

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Potted Garden Update – 24 December 2009

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This is my first tomato harvest from the potted garden!  I swear that the image hasn’t been edited other than to re-size.  The colours of these tomatoes are amazing!   By the time this picture was taken i’d already eaten two tomatoes.  They were sweet and juicy and bursting with flavour…just like tomatoes are supposed to taste like.  They smell strongly of that vine smell…a true tomato smell that promises a fresh sweetness only home grown vine ripened tomatoes can deliver.  The rest of the garden is going great guns!  I’ve regularly harvested basil, parsley, mint, cos lettuce leaves and curry tree leaves.

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The ties that bind us

This very stylish young woman is my paternal grandmotherLucy Phyliss Davis McLaren Davis…She’s a tiny petite woman, but she’s as strong as steel and as hard as they come. Being born and living in the Falkland Islands would have made you that way I guess. It’s a lonely hard life that my family have lived since the Falkland Islands was first colonised by the first British Governor in the 1840’s. I love her, she’s my grandmother, but well, you know…
 

Lamb Lagoto in the Pressure Cooker

pot-lagoto-merge

I love lamb lagoto, but I don’t like the 4-5 hours cooking time…it may be fine to have a stove running for several hours during winter but that’s a whole other story during summer.  So, rather than miss out on lamb lagoto during half of the year, I dragged out my pressure cooker from the depths of the pot cupboard!   I’ve barely used our pressure cooker since my mother in law bought us one many years ago…I think i haven’t used it due to fear…as it turns out my fears were unfounded!

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Potted Garden Update 6 December

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The chilli trees are fruiting so it looks like we’re going to have a brilliant chilli season that will hopefully reap enough fruit to freeze throughout winter.  Most of the rest of the potted garden is looking as good!  Feel free to take a wander through the garden…

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Sunday Brunch

plated up pancakes

I love to cook a weekend brunch but this year of my thesis has put a strain on the time I can spend cooking, photographing and blogging.  I got back from the research conference in Canberra on Thursday night and I spent Friday recovering from a tiring week of not sleeping well in a strange bed and trying to reduce the washing pile.  Nigel had his first weekend off from work for many months and I’m not getting back to writing until Monday morning.  So this morning I cooked Stephanie Alexander’s pancake recipe. 

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