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Items tagged "homecooked":

  1. Thank you Ethel for hand feeding your lambs to ensure they survived this last tough season. Eternally grateful for rare breed produce raised with deep commitment and tenderness.

    These tiny Ostler’s Hill Leicester lamb cutlet were simply rubbed with Weyhill Farm Garlic, salted, seared and rested warm. Served with stoemp, roasted beetroot and pumpkin.

    The gravy was made with my own chicken stock, pomegranate molasses and a dash of oyster sauce for umami.

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  2. My cooking mojo’s back. Floral yet sharp, salty and sweet. Heirloom beetroot with pomegranate and radish salt.

    I made the seasoning myself with homegrown dried radish and pomegranate seeds ground with Mt Zero’s Pink Lake salt. A minuet in pink.

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  3. I had lots of leaves. Some growing from an organic daikon, an enormous swede and lots of homegrown radishes. Most people would throw them out. Or may be compost them. But I opted to make my ‘poor man’s pesto’ with them.

    It’s just like regular pesto, only the majority of the leaves are not basil. Not that you’d know. Even with only 20% of it being basil picked just prior from my garden

    I tossed it through orrechiete, with homemade chicken meatballs, some peas and a garnish of Jamon. Easy. Delicious. Cheap. And I still have two big jars of the pesto.

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  4. Meatballs made with the meat from Warialda Beef soup bones and tendons cooked in masterstock. Served in a sauce of homegrown tomatoes, some onion, tomatillos, coriander and chipotle. Very warming on a chilly night.

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  5. Healthy dinner: Nutty freekeh, kale & sweet corn; grilled spicy dry rubbed chicken served with fresh tomatillo, chipotle and coriander salsa with homegrown lime.

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  6. When the cat’s away, the mouse makes pain perdu - French Toast.

    It was just an excuse to use the last slice of my homemade milk bread and eat gooey fresh figs from the farmers market. On went super thick @schulzorganicfarms cream which in turn begged to have Heilala vanilla syrup poured over it.

    It’s been a big week. I figured I deserved it.

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  7. Thai fish cakes - not the mashed potato European style ones. These contain fresh fish, Thai spice paste, lime leaf, onion, shrimp paste, coconut, chilli, garlic, with a little rice flour and egg to bind it.

    Just mince it, shape into cakes and chill until ready to fry. Easy!

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  8. My simple Lao style pumpkin dish. I cooked butternut pumpkin in watered down coconut milk with a tiny bit of palm sugar, and a splash of fish sauce.

    It was seasoned with dry aromatics that I ground myself. It was a mixture of lime leaf, coriander leaves, lemon grass, pink peppercorns, ginger and garlic.

    When ready I topped it with some coconut cream, fresh coriander, spring onion, and Vietnamese mint. The finishing touch was a scattering of basil flowers from our garden.

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  9. A Lao and Thai inspired dish.

    Aromatic meatballs made with Warialda Beef popes eye, sinews and tendons with Greenvale Farm pork fat. I fried them with eggplant and three kinds of basil from my garden, fresh coriander, then dressed it with prik nam pla.

    The meatballs were made by cooking the beef, sinews and tendons in masterstock with cassia, star anise, brown cardamon, Kampot pepper and ginger before mincing and forming the balls. No further seasoning required.

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  10. Preservative free and yet so colourful because it’s fresh.

    @tmhpastas sundried tomato gnocchi served with fried chunks of @greenvalefarm jowl bacon, onion, capers and tons of my homegrown oregano and lemon basil.

    The sauce was made by frying off heirloom tomatoes I had bottled, with garlic in olive oil and finishing it with some water from the pasta and a little chipotle for a kick. Scrummy and easy.

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  11. A dozen homemade @warialdabeef bò viên about to go into the pot for par cooking.

    These home style Vietnamese beef meat balls contain masterstock cooked Warialda Beef tendons and sinews, which imparts star anise, cassia and brown cardamon into the mix.

    It’s added to minced secondary cuts, pork fat, garlic, ginger, spring onions, fish sauce and kampot pepper, then bound with duck eggs and rice flour.

    I’ve yet to achieve the tight, rubberiness of the store bought ones. Mine are a bit looser, so I shall have to find the trick to the perfect technique.

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  12. My smoky Jamaican beef & beans uses masterstock cooked @warialdabeef popes eye. On the side, salted fish and leek fried rice packed with umami.

    I used dried Northern beans, cooking them in a mix of diluted masterstock with homegrown tomato and onions seasoned with ginger, allspice, Scotch Bonnets and smoked rocoto. Spicy and filling but still packed with beefy flavour.

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  13. Satay, Indonesian style, with a salad of jicama, cucumber, Chinese cabbage and sesame seeds. Fresh, light and perfect for a warm night.

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  14. It’s been unseasonably hot this Autumn and salads have been the cool option for meals. So with the North African and Middle Eastern recipes of Yotam Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean TV show percolating in my subconscious, I made this.

    A salad of Northern beans onion and farro cooked in homemade chicken stock, mixed with vegetables from my garden: fragrant perilla, sharp sorrel, colourful beetroot leaves, San Marzano tomatoes and roasted red peppers.

    The flavour packed Warialda Belted Galloways beef tongue is dressed with greek yoghurt blended with roasted pepper, lemon juice, sumac, cumin and cardamon with a dash of orange blossom water.

    On the side I served my homemade sourdough bread with local olive oil and spicy dukkah. Eaten in the garden it felt almost like a Summer holiday meal.

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  15. Passionfruit from Mr Sticki’s sister’s vine went into this slice. I based it on my lemon slice recipe, but added zest to the base.

    Into the topping went a few passionfruit, a cup of dessicated coconut and the usual lemon. The flour in the topping got a teaspoon of baking powder too. It was good but I’ll tweak it by reducing the coconut next time.

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