Sunday, August 19, 2007

Winter Dinner Party




Warmup snacks: Sicilian and Mammouth olives, dried apricots and figs, wasabi peas, roasted nuts and crostini. Green sicilian olives are awesome!
Dinner: Broccoli and ricotta quiche, mushroom quiche and tomato and basil bruschetta. My first attempt at making quiche, definitely more practice needed.
Dessert: Loukoum (turkish delight) and baclava from Fatima's on Cleveland St, cheese platter with ice-wine from Piggs Peake Winery. Mmmmmm cheese. My favourites were Saint Agur blue cheese and Brie de Meaux both from France - an expensive taste I picked up when living in Geneva where good cheese was half the price. That brie features in the world's most expensive sandwiche.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Pumpkin and Kumera Soup


Some chilli, coconut cream and a decent nob of ginger is the key. I think I need to give the pumpkin and kumera a rest for a little while now...

Not Your Average Instant Noodles



One of my staples: Instant noodles with bokchoy, pumpkin and an egg. Toss the soup packet and use some miso instead.

Pumpkin and Kumera Risotto with Apricot "Danish"


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