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    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.

    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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    Apr 12, 2013 (a Friday)
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    9:44:28 (1 month ago)

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    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.

    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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    Mar 10, 2013 (a Sunday)
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    5:47:00 (2 months ago)

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    I liken my cooking to living in the poorest house in the best street in town. I cook cheap ingredients & offcuts that I purchase from top primary producers favoured by restaurants. This penne was topped with goulash. Ingredients included homemade Lecsó made from capsicums found on a neighbour’s discarded bush dumped in our lane. A glug of homemade passata and a garlic clove. The meat was Warialda beef sinews & tendons, pope’s eye, a Greenvale Farm smoked trotter & bacon offcuts. Plus stock made with all of the above as well as a smoked duck frame. I may be cheap, but the food here is sure tasty.

    I liken my cooking to living in the poorest house in the best street in town. I cook cheap ingredients & offcuts that I purchase from top primary producers favoured by restaurants.

    This penne was topped with goulash. Ingredients included homemade Lecsó made from capsicums found on a neighbour’s discarded bush dumped in our lane. A glug of homemade passata and a garlic clove.

    The meat was Warialda beef sinews & tendons, pope’s eye, a Greenvale Farm smoked trotter & bacon offcuts. Plus stock made with all of the above as well as a smoked duck frame.

    I may be cheap, but the food here is sure tasty.

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    Jan 13, 2013 (a Sunday)
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    11:32:00 (4 months ago)

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    Deep fried duck egg on braised beef cheek with barley on sourdough. The rich cheek meat was very slowly cooked with Jerez vinegar, homemade stock and passata to a sticky glaze. I finished it with a little splash of chipotle sauce for a slight kick and dressed the egg with my Uyghur salt and crisp deep fried shallots. The thick yolk melded with the braise and the sourdough offered a chewiness accented by crisp egg whites and shallot. And in case you thought I was a hero whipping this up for a late lunch, the braise came out of my freezer, made it back in Winter. I just happened to have some oil at hand in the deep fryer so it all fell together very easily. It really pays to freeze leftovers. For me, eating something months later is more pleasurable than eating something you’ve tasted a few times while cooking, because later, your palate’s fresh when you come to it.

    Deep fried duck egg on braised beef cheek with barley on sourdough.

    The rich cheek meat was very slowly cooked with Jerez vinegar, homemade stock and passata to a sticky glaze. I finished it with a little splash of chipotle sauce for a slight kick and dressed the egg with my Uyghur salt and crisp deep fried shallots.

    The thick yolk melded with the braise and the sourdough offered a chewiness accented by crisp egg whites and shallot.

    And in case you thought I was a hero whipping this up for a late lunch, the braise came out of my freezer, made it back in Winter. I just happened to have some oil at hand in the deep fryer so it all fell together very easily.

    It really pays to freeze leftovers. For me, eating something months later is more pleasurable than eating something you’ve tasted a few times while cooking, because later, your palate’s fresh when you come to it.

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    date:
    Jan 12, 2013 (a Saturday)
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    2:50:23 (4 months ago)

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    Crisp, crunchy, rich porky ears of wonder. Because we’rer a nose-to-tail household we respect the life of the animals we eat by including offal, so as little is wasted as possible. Pigs ears are delicious treat fried like this and dusted with my spicy cayenne salt. I pressure cook the ears in my homemade stock then dry them out and cool them. Usually I leave them for 24 hours to firm up, then chop and fry them in a hot iron skillet. The oil tends to spit so if doing a large batch I’ll use my covered deep fryer. When they’re done they dance with my freshly ground cayenne salt which includes coriander, cumin, allspice, cayenne, smoked paprika, sugar and more. Finger licking good. (Taken with Instagram)

    Crisp, crunchy, rich porky ears of wonder. Because we’rer a nose-to-tail household we respect the life of the animals we eat by including offal, so as little is wasted as possible. Pigs ears are delicious treat fried like this and dusted with my spicy cayenne salt.

    I pressure cook the ears in my homemade stock then dry them out and cool them. Usually I leave them for 24 hours to firm up, then chop and fry them in a hot iron skillet. The oil tends to spit so if doing a large batch I’ll use my covered deep fryer.

    When they’re done they dance with my freshly ground cayenne salt which includes coriander, cumin, allspice, cayenne, smoked paprika, sugar and more. Finger licking good.

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    date:
    Sep 17, 2012 (a Monday)
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    10:34:43 (8 months ago)

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    Bao-wow-wow! Sticky chipotle pork in a steamed bun. Smoky, spicy and luscious, served with steamed garlic shoots. More like Granny Noshtalgia than ‘Dude Food’, as the pork came from a hock, and small gelatinous Greenvale Farm maple basted trotters provided the sticky texture. Another adventure into simple, economical and resourceful eating, old school style. (Taken with Instagram)

    Bao-wow-wow! Sticky chipotle pork in a steamed bun. Smoky, spicy and luscious, served with steamed garlic shoots.

    More like Granny Noshtalgia than ‘Dude Food’, as the pork came from a hock, and small gelatinous Greenvale Farm maple basted trotters provided the sticky texture.

    Another adventure into simple, economical and resourceful eating, old school style.

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    date:
    Sep 3, 2012 (a Monday)
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    1:15:30 (8 months ago)

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    My peasant style Ma Po Tofu features shitake, wood ear fungus, eggplant, garlic shoots, Greenvale Farm pigs tongue, pork fat and a small amount of fermented chilli bean curd for a richer flavour. The secret ingredient is my dark, intense, homemade masterstock. This dish is internal central heating, perfect for winter.

    My peasant style Ma Po Tofu features shitake, wood ear fungus, eggplant, garlic shoots, Greenvale Farm pigs tongue, pork fat and a small amount of fermented chilli bean curd for a richer flavour. The secret ingredient is my dark, intense, homemade masterstock. This dish is internal central heating, perfect for winter.

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    date:
    Jul 31, 2012 (a Tuesday)
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    12:23:00 (9 months ago)

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    The Gold Coin Slider. Awesome, if I say so myself. Anthony Kumnick of Greenvale Farm knows I love an offal challenge. Australia is so prime cut focussed that I have devoted myself to showing how secondary cuts of meat should not go to waste, but can be a delicious and economical part of our diet. So Anthony gave me some pig snouts to play with. After a bit of head scratching I resurrected an old Chinese barbecue recipe called gold coin chicken, which actually uses pork offal. The name is derived from old Chinese coins that characteristically had a square hole in the centre. Creating the coins, a skewer goes through alternate rounds of marinated lean pork meat, pigs liver and slices of fat. In my case I used pork liver from my usual Viet/Shanghai butcher, Anthony’s snouts, pig cheeks and back fat. The cheeks and snouts were first pressure cooked in my master stock before marinating. Pigs liver is rich and strong tasting, so I started by soaking them in salt water with mandarin peel, then slicing to add to the marinade. The marinade is Cha Sui style. I used Dad’s recipe, learned when he trained to be a Chinese Roast meat specialist. The back fat was steamed then sliced and alternated with the other items on a long skewer. I grilled them first on medium heat then finished on high to crisp the edges, basting frequently with marinade. When this was done cooking I basted it all with honey, though Dad’s recipe uses maltose instead. As always with meat, I then rested it off the skewer and tossed it in its juices before serving. To complete the dish I steamed mantou buns and garlic shoots. Mantou are easy to make and freeze but are also available frozen in Asian Grocers. This ‘burger’ style is a new addition to the many available, I’m presuming David Chang may have created a demand for them commercially. The meat was tender and tasty. The rendered pieces of pork fat giving an extra richness against the pâté textured liver and gelatinous snout that crisped around the edges. The garlic shoots acted as a relief and textural foil. In season, cucumber would also be an ideal accompaniment. Essentially this bears a similarity to a Cha Sui Bao, but lifts it to the sophisticated level you might expect from a restaurant like Golden Fields or Momofuku Seiōbo. But it’s cheap and easy enough to cook for yourself. Try it - you can cheat by using a jar of Lee Kum Kee Cha Sui marinade and a slug of gin in the mix instead of Chinese rose liquor. Use slices of any lean, secondary cut of pork and why not save the smoky fat from bacon to use in between? Offalicious!

    The Gold Coin Slider. Awesome, if I say so myself.

    Anthony Kumnick of Greenvale Farm knows I love an offal challenge. Australia is so prime cut focussed that I have devoted myself to showing how secondary cuts of meat should not go to waste, but can be a delicious and economical part of our diet.

    So Anthony gave me some pig snouts to play with. After a bit of head scratching I resurrected an old Chinese barbecue recipe called gold coin chicken, which actually uses pork offal.

    The name is derived from old Chinese coins that characteristically had a square hole in the centre. Creating the coins, a skewer goes through alternate rounds of marinated lean pork meat, pigs liver and slices of fat.

    In my case I used pork liver from my usual Viet/Shanghai butcher, Anthony’s snouts, pig cheeks and back fat. The cheeks and snouts were first pressure cooked in my master stock before marinating.

    Pigs liver is rich and strong tasting, so I started by soaking them in salt water with mandarin peel, then slicing to add to the marinade. The marinade is Cha Sui style. I used Dad’s recipe, learned when he trained to be a Chinese Roast meat specialist.

    The back fat was steamed then sliced and alternated with the other items on a long skewer. I grilled them first on medium heat then finished on high to crisp the edges, basting frequently with marinade.

    When this was done cooking I basted it all with honey, though Dad’s recipe uses maltose instead. As always with meat, I then rested it off the skewer and tossed it in its juices before serving.

    To complete the dish I steamed mantou buns and garlic shoots. Mantou are easy to make and freeze but are also available frozen in Asian Grocers. This ‘burger’ style is a new addition to the many available, I’m presuming David Chang may have created a demand for them commercially.

    The meat was tender and tasty. The rendered pieces of pork fat giving an extra richness against the pâté textured liver and gelatinous snout that crisped around the edges. The garlic shoots acted as a relief and textural foil. In season, cucumber would also be an ideal accompaniment.

    Essentially this bears a similarity to a Cha Sui Bao, but lifts it to the sophisticated level you might expect from a restaurant like Golden Fields or Momofuku Seiōbo. But it’s cheap and easy enough to cook for yourself.

    Try it - you can cheat by using a jar of Lee Kum Kee Cha Sui marinade and a slug of gin in the mix instead of Chinese rose liquor. Use slices of any lean, secondary cut of pork and why not save the smoky fat from bacon to use in between? Offalicious!

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    date:
    Jul 27, 2012 (a Friday)
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    4:45:12 (9 months ago)

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    Offalicious Chargrilled ‘tongue bacon’ with spicy SE Asian caramel sauce on Chinese rice crackers. AKA nose to tail leftovers reinvented. I thinly sliced some of the pickled tongue from Warialda Beef, chargrilled it briefly so it warmed and curled seductively around its maillard stripes. To go with it, I made a tangy Vietnamese caramel reduction, enhanced with tamarind, fermented chilli tofu, beef stock, sugar and a small chip of Balanchan for umami. Placed on a crisp, light Chinese rice cracker, it was served with steamed cauliflower and last night’s leftover Chinese white sesame slaw. The over all effect - sweet, sour, spicy, crisp, yielding, delicious happiness. (Taken with Instagram)

    Offalicious Chargrilled ‘tongue bacon’ with spicy SE Asian caramel sauce on Chinese rice crackers. AKA nose to tail leftovers reinvented.

    I thinly sliced some of the pickled tongue from Warialda Beef, chargrilled it briefly so it warmed and curled seductively around its maillard stripes.

    To go with it, I made a tangy Vietnamese caramel reduction, enhanced with tamarind, fermented chilli tofu, beef stock, sugar and a small chip of Balanchan for umami.

    Placed on a crisp, light Chinese rice cracker, it was served with steamed cauliflower and last night’s leftover Chinese white sesame slaw. The over all effect - sweet, sour, spicy, crisp, yielding, delicious happiness.

    (Taken with Instagram)

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    Jul 15, 2012 (a Sunday)
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    1:15:37 (10 months ago)

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    Delicate Warialda Beef Belted Galloway pickled tongue with suet dumpling, onion gravy, caraway cabbage and greens. This is the soul of traditional frugal nose to tail cooking. The pickled tongue was poached in a stock I keep at home, made of beef bones, tendons and sinews. So both the meat and the soup are enhanced with flavour as a consequence. The dumplings were made in the food processor with seasoned flour, egg, chervil and grated Warialda suet - the beef fat from around the kidneys. They were boiled in the stock after the tongue was cooked. And the onion gravy was made with both the same gelatinous stock and a clove studded onion that was in the stock with the tongue. Even the cabbage was cooked with the stock, carraway seeds and a splash of home made chardonnay vinegar. I added a home grown baby beetroot and leaves to the plate too. This was a meal I enjoyed so much I went back for seconds of meat and gravy. The tongue was silkily tender with a beautiful subtle taste. This is Slow Food at its most honest. This is also modern first world waste repackaged and holding its own as nostalgic comfort food.  (Taken with Instagram)

    Delicate Warialda Beef Belted Galloway pickled tongue with suet dumpling, onion gravy, caraway cabbage and greens. This is the soul of traditional frugal nose to tail cooking.

    The pickled tongue was poached in a stock I keep at home, made of beef bones, tendons and sinews. So both the meat and the soup are enhanced with flavour as a consequence.

    The dumplings were made in the food processor with seasoned flour, egg, chervil and grated Warialda suet - the beef fat from around the kidneys. They were boiled in the stock after the tongue was cooked. And the onion gravy was made with both the same gelatinous stock and a clove studded onion that was in the stock with the tongue.

    Even the cabbage was cooked with the stock, carraway seeds and a splash of home made chardonnay vinegar. I added a home grown baby beetroot and leaves to the plate too.

    This was a meal I enjoyed so much I went back for seconds of meat and gravy. The tongue was silkily tender with a beautiful subtle taste. This is Slow Food at its most honest. This is also modern first world waste repackaged and holding its own as nostalgic comfort food. 

    (Taken with Instagram)

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    Jul 10, 2012 (a Tuesday)
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    2:22:00 (10 months ago)

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    Soul Food sandwich. My low and slow pulled pork trotters in gelatinously rich BBQ sauce with crisp lemon slaw on sourdough. Leftovers and cheap cuts of meat can be a really, really good thing and these textures and flavours balance well. (Taken with Instagram)
    Soul Food sandwich. My low and slow pulled pork trotters in gelatinously rich BBQ sauce with crisp lemon slaw on sourdough. Leftovers and cheap cuts of meat can be a really, really good thing and these textures and flavours balance well.

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    Jul 5, 2012 (a Thursday)
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    5:02:09 (10 months ago)

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    My homemade phó bò viên prior to mixing. And yes that’s a piece of beef tendon near the lime. My stock uses Warialda Belted Galloway beef bones, sinews and tendons with cassia bark, star anise, brown cardamon, fennel seeds, charred ginger, shallots and more aromatics. I cook it for more than 24hours and always includes some of the previous batch mixed in which adds a deeper note of flavour. (Taken with Instagram)

    My homemade phó bò viên prior to mixing. And yes that’s a piece of beef tendon near the lime.

    My stock uses Warialda Belted Galloway beef bones, sinews and tendons with cassia bark, star anise, brown cardamon, fennel seeds, charred ginger, shallots and more aromatics.

    I cook it for more than 24hours and always includes some of the previous batch mixed in which adds a deeper note of flavour.

    (Taken with Instagram)

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    Jul 5, 2012 (a Thursday)
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    4:58:40 (10 months ago)

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    The healing meal mixed and ready to slurp. Homemade phó bò takes a long time to cook but is all natural, uses medicinal Asian herbs and spices along with parts of the cow first world countries throw away. But it is one of the most wonderful, heady, nutritional dishes you can eat without feeling bloated. (Taken with Instagram)

    The healing meal mixed and ready to slurp. Homemade phó bò takes a long time to cook but is all natural, uses medicinal Asian herbs and spices along with parts of the cow first world countries throw away. But it is one of the most wonderful, heady, nutritional dishes you can eat without feeling bloated.

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    Jul 5, 2012 (a Thursday)
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    Soft, crisp, gelatinous, salty, sour, sweet, chewy. To the Chinese, balance is mandatory to the perfect meal. On Saturday I parked in the oven a Warialda Belted Galloway Beef cheek in Chinese millet vinegar and leftover Vietnamese pho soup with a dice of daikon and onion, star anise, mandarin peel, and Sichuan pepper. It cooked for three hours on low heat. It came out wonderfully rich and gelatinous, but outside of a traditional Chinese meal with a bowl of rice and side dishes, I wasn’t quite sure how else to serve it. But tonight I realised that because it was a North/Central Chinese style dish it would be a perfect companion to the Flower Thread Mantou, a traditional version of the steamed rice flour bun made popular by NYC Chef David Chang of Momofuku). The Flower Thread bun is rolled into a scroll and can contain shallots. I had some in the freezer, as they can readily be bought in Chinese grocery stores. I then added some fresh spring onion to relieve the gelatinous intensity against the soft, faintly sweet, yielding bread. To balance it, I added crisp, creamy Warialda sweetbreads rolled in homemade breadcrumbs made by blitzing some leftover crusts in the food processor. Super fresh sweetbreads are easy to prepare, remove any suet (fat) from around them, then soak the creamy bundles in salted water for an hour and drain before cooking. My tip is to refrigerate the crumbed morsels for at least 10minutes before shallow frying. The vegies included some home grown salad greens, a sweet blanched homegrown baby beet and a mini Japanese turnip. I just put them in a container of boiling water and cover with a lid. No stovetop cooking required. Sounds complicated? No, it was dead easy. I did it all sitting down in my tiny kitchen. Being composed of ‘nose to tail’ style secondary cuts and home grown vegetables it was really flavourful and kinder on the budget than prime cuts. As Mr Sticki says “Looks like restaurant food….but it’s is better than a bought one”. Homecooked Slow Food rocks.

    Soft, crisp, gelatinous, salty, sour, sweet, chewy. To the Chinese, balance is mandatory to the perfect meal.

    On Saturday I parked in the oven a Warialda Belted Galloway Beef cheek in Chinese millet vinegar and leftover Vietnamese pho soup with a dice of daikon and onion, star anise, mandarin peel, and Sichuan pepper. It cooked for three hours on low heat. It came out wonderfully rich and gelatinous, but outside of a traditional Chinese meal with a bowl of rice and side dishes, I wasn’t quite sure how else to serve it.

    But tonight I realised that because it was a North/Central Chinese style dish it would be a perfect companion to the Flower Thread Mantou, a traditional version of the steamed rice flour bun made popular by NYC Chef David Chang of Momofuku). The Flower Thread bun is rolled into a scroll and can contain shallots. I had some in the freezer, as they can readily be bought in Chinese grocery stores. I then added some fresh spring onion to relieve the gelatinous intensity against the soft, faintly sweet, yielding bread.

    To balance it, I added crisp, creamy Warialda sweetbreads rolled in homemade breadcrumbs made by blitzing some leftover crusts in the food processor. Super fresh sweetbreads are easy to prepare, remove any suet (fat) from around them, then soak the creamy bundles in salted water for an hour and drain before cooking. My tip is to refrigerate the crumbed morsels for at least 10minutes before shallow frying.

    The vegies included some home grown salad greens, a sweet blanched homegrown baby beet and a mini Japanese turnip. I just put them in a container of boiling water and cover with a lid. No stovetop cooking required.

    Sounds complicated? No, it was dead easy. I did it all sitting down in my tiny kitchen. Being composed of ‘nose to tail’ style secondary cuts and home grown vegetables it was really flavourful and kinder on the budget than prime cuts. As Mr Sticki says “Looks like restaurant food….but it’s is better than a bought one”. Homecooked Slow Food rocks.

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    Jul 5, 2012 (a Thursday)
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    Crisp Oriental spiced pigs ears cooked in the Air Fryer & served with tomato, lime and chilli dipping sauce. I had lovely rare breed pigs ears from Gypsy Pig. So to make this I singed the hairs off the ears and placed them in the pressure cooker with fennel seeds, a stick of cassia bark, half a star anise, a teaspoon of Sichuan peppercorns and a small piece of dried mandarine peel. After cooking under pressure for 15minutes I drained and dried them before slicing, dipping in egg white and dredging in a mix of cornstarch, potato flour, five spice, Sichuan pepper and chilli powder. Then I chilled them for 10 minutes. Normally you would deep fry or shallow fry them, but Mr Sticki’s family have elevated cholesterol levels, so we minimize our fat consumption by using the air fryer, using 3 teaspoons of oil. For best results lightly spray the strips with canola and cook at 200°c in the gizmo. The dipping sauce was a mix of passata, mirin, fresh lime, minced ginger, sugar, fresh coriander and pickled chilli which offset the crunchy ears perfectly. And true to my no waste philosophy I kept the cooking liquor from the pressure cooker and made master stock. I took out the cassia, added more water, Chinese rose liqueur, rock sugar, fish sauce and light soy sauce. We later had some with wonton and choi sum. It was amazingly fresh and restorative. (Taken with instagram)

    Crisp Oriental spiced pigs ears cooked in the Air Fryer & served with tomato, lime and chilli dipping sauce.

    I had lovely rare breed pigs ears from Gypsy Pig. So to make this I singed the hairs off the ears and placed them in the pressure cooker with fennel seeds, a stick of cassia bark, half a star anise, a teaspoon of Sichuan peppercorns and a small piece of dried mandarine peel.

    After cooking under pressure for 15minutes I drained and dried them before slicing, dipping in egg white and dredging in a mix of cornstarch, potato flour, five spice, Sichuan pepper and chilli powder. Then I chilled them for 10 minutes.

    Normally you would deep fry or shallow fry them, but Mr Sticki’s family have elevated cholesterol levels, so we minimize our fat consumption by using the air fryer, using 3 teaspoons of oil. For best results lightly spray the strips with canola and cook at 200°c in the gizmo.

    The dipping sauce was a mix of passata, mirin, fresh lime, minced ginger, sugar, fresh coriander and pickled chilli which offset the crunchy ears perfectly.

    And true to my no waste philosophy I kept the cooking liquor from the pressure cooker and made master stock. I took out the cassia, added more water, Chinese rose liqueur, rock sugar, fish sauce and light soy sauce. We later had some with wonton and choi sum. It was amazingly fresh and restorative.

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    posted by:
    stickifingers
    date:
    Apr 22, 2012 (a Sunday)
    time:
    10:47:35 (1 year ago)

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