Archive for November, 2006
centrepoint
puy lentils centrepoint is the ‘other’ supermarket in town; it has a good french influence… good cheese, cute biscuits and cheap french lentils. this is a variation of a recipe from cranks for puy lentils with sunblushed tomatoes and goats cheese. i’ve turned it into puy lentils with oven roasted tomatoes, rocket and yoghurt (how [...]
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six square plates, in black
sunday night’s four course meal, courtesy of numbatri’s chef extraordinaire appetizer was roquefort and camembert with baguette (gotta go all french) entree, pumpkin tarts. but of course, the pumpkin was replaced by sweet potato since there’s a glut of sweet potato (still) in our kitchen: main course was stick meat. in other countries its more [...]
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a long week…
warm beef salad …means a ‘not much effort’ dinner on a friday night. the local beef here is good stuff. this is a rocket, bean sprout and agent orange carrots with warm beef on top, and the cornichons added as a last thought. the night was supposed to be spent watching kids at a hip [...]
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scratchin’
i bought a coconut scratcher during the week… and then there were plans for a saturday-curry-night in, complete with coconut milk made from scratch (with the scratcher no less). so here’s the vegetable curry (with cheese on top in this photo for some reason?), homemade roti, sweet potato and pumpkin roasted on the backyard fire, [...]
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the tamarind project
From tamarind fruit to tamarind sauce: i bought a bag of fresh tamarind from the markets a week or two ago and we’ve been snacking on them slowly. i wanted the challenge of a dish made from them. there’s a recipe in my re-bar cookbook that calls for tamarind pulp, which i’d usually buy in [...]
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