tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42482598690225982742024-03-14T01:14:40.229-07:00Where the wind blows me...This blog is about the things I like... food, music, art, stuff and things. But mostly food.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-64946679430685914012013-05-01T20:01:00.002-07:002013-05-01T20:01:39.617-07:00NEW BLOG!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Hey guys,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Well, new things are afoot! I have neglected my poor little blog and I think part of the reason was that I had just grown out of it. I don't really like the name anymore, and the way it was set out it's content wasn't really inspiring me to write anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have a new blog set up, and there will be new content all the time - similar theme to what is going on now, but you'll have access to my twitter/instagram feed as well as articles and blog posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm going to set myself foodie challenges to have something interesting to write about as well as continue with the recipes etc that I write already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I just wanted a blog space that reflects me better, and I think the new <a href="http://www.pantryinsuburbia.com/">Pantry in Suburbia</a> does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Go have a look, I have an RSS feed set up as well as an email subscription, so get on over and subscribe and comment away!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">www.pantryinsuburbia.com</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-66450897891750973622013-04-26T21:34:00.002-07:002013-04-26T22:24:46.608-07:00Mandarine and almond syrup cake<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I get my fruit and veg delivered by <a href="http://www.thelocalgrocer.com.au/">The Local Grocer</a> these days, partially because I can't deal with Woolworths and Coles, my local IGA is pretty shit, and they pay farmers fair prices for their goods. Everyone is a winner - especially those who have to endure me whinging about how evil the duopoly supermarkets are, or me whinging about why some IGA's are awesome and why mine is crap and THEY HAVE NO BREAD AT ALL? I'M GOING HOME! I just let The Local Grocer do it. I don't even have to make a decision about what I want that way, they just tell me - this is what is in season, this is what we can get, so this is what you have. You can choose, I just choose NOT to choose.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />This time I got 6 mandarines. I don't mind them, but I don't really like the smell of them when you peel them, and it sticks under your nails and on your skin all day. Do not like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Option 1 - let them sit in the box until they go off without eating them.<br /><br />Option 2 - let them sit in the fridge until they go off without eating them.<br /><br />Option 3 - eat them.<br /><br />Options 1 and 2 have happened before. Don't judge me, you too have left stuff in your fruit n veg drawer in the fridge so long it no longer resembles what it once was. I refuse to believe I am the only one this happens to.<br /><br />Anyway obviously, option 3 has to happen, because waste sucks. <br /><br />I made cake. It is delicious. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Dense but not claggy, sweet but with a punchy lemon edge. Much better than a <a href="http://wherethewindblowsher.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/mandarin-cake.html">similar cake</a> I had made before, which requires the lengthy boiling of the mandarins, that stunk the house out. This one is just gorgeous, all over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Adapted from Ottolenghi's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/dec/06/puddings-christmas-recipes-desserts">cake</a> from Jerusalem<br /><br /><i style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Ingredients</u><br />200g unsalted butter<br />380g caster sugar<br />4 clementines, zest grated, and juiced<br />Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon<br />280g ground almonds<br />1/2 tsp ground cardamom<br />5 medium free-range eggs, beaten<br /><br /><u>Method</u><br />1) Preheat the oven to 160C. Lightly grease a 24cm spring-form tin, and do what you gotta do to stop the cake sticking.<br /><br />2) Put the butter, 300g of the sugar (the remaining 80g is for the syrup) and citrus zest in a mixer bowl, and use a paddle attachment to combine. Add about half the ground almonds a spoonful at a time and continue mixing. <br /><br />3) Add the eggs one at a time, scraping the bottom and sides of the bowl as you go. Add the remaining almonds and ground cardamom and work until the mix is smooth.<br /><br />4) Spread the cake batter inside the tin, and bake for 50-60 minutes - a skewer should come out a little bit moist.<br /><br />5) When the cake is almost cooked, in a small pan bring to a boil the remaining sugar and citrus juices (the juices should add up to about 120ml), then remove from the heat. The moment the cake comes out of the oven, pour over the hot syrup, making sure it all soaks through. Leave to cool down in the tin. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Being online and active on social media exposes you to the way that so many people showcase their lives. It's not necessarily a bad thing... Instagram has resulted in people seeing beauty in normal every day things, and you see end up seeing the parts of peoples lives they want you to see, and in the light and filter through which you should view it. The thing is, that doesn't really suit me. I can display my life how I like on social media, but if what I show is not 100% true to life, I feel like a fake. I can take a photo of my basil plant and make it look like I grow everything and am totally self sufficient. Not true. But I could make it look that way...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Impression: I went shopping and am totes a <br />fashionista, yah.<br />Reality: I went shopping last minute for <br />a dress and the gold one makes me<br />look like a gay care bear <br />(little round legs and belly).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I prefer to live a more honest lifestyle. When I cook food, I do it to eat it, to feed others, to show love. That sounds corny but I'm an emotional cripple - so if I cook for you, it means something. Sitting around styling food shots is not my style, I cook to eat, not to make everyone else look at it and say oooo. Just come over and let me feed you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This dinner was one of the ones where I didn't spend much time making it look pretty. Because who cares, it was bloody delicious. No props, no white boards behind to reflect the light, no wooden slabs underneath to make it look like it was taken on a rustic French table. Just tasty food to eat, that might be something you've not had before. But you'll do it again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>1 head of cauliflower<br />Olive oil<br />sea salt<br />juice of 2 lemons<br />zest and juice of 1 orange (save some zest to garnish)<br />1 cup water<br />3/4 cup tahini<br />3 tbsp olive oil<br />2 cloves garlic, mashed<br />2 medium onions, sliced thin<br />1/2 cup toasted pine nuts, to garnish<br />1/4 cup slivered almonds, to garnish<br /><br /><u>Method</u></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-33392275025594908362013-03-08T17:51:00.000-08:002013-03-08T18:04:50.927-08:00C-Bomb Hot Sauce?! YES!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's no secret I love local food. The people who make it and are dedicated to using local produce, the markets who give them a place to sell it, and the locavores who seek it out and buy it! It's important that our isolated little pocket of the world is not reliant on our more heavily populated and well known eastern rellies. We are WA and we can do this all ourselves thank you! Sorry Melbourne, I still love you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But here is a fun new WA product that I think we can all agree has a pretty awesome name. What else is awesome about it? It's friggin delicious. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CBombHotSauce">C-Bomb Hot Sauce</a> is made by Renae Bunster, a WA local who got her inspiration for creating this fruity hot sauce during her travels in South America. I asked her a few questions about her product, which is on sale at <a href="http://www.araluenbotanicpark.com.au/araluen-fremantle-chilli-festival/">Araluen Fremantle Chilli Festival</a> (Saturday and Sunday the 9-10th March). Also included some of the amazing videos from their YouTube channel :D Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i><b>1) On your website you say that your sauce is a "whole food" hot sauce - can you explain this and tell us what goes into your sauces?</b></i><br /><i><br />I think the Thermomix revolution has taught many people we need to be eating more whole foods - and whole food basically means real food taken from nature that's had nothing bad done to it - ie been processed to the point of losing its nutrients and being unrecognisable from it's original form. So as I originally made the sauce for myself I made it to be totally healthy, as opposed to how big businesses decide to make a product - cheap ingredients so they can make more profit. C-Bomb is made completely from fresh raw vegetables, chillies and freshly squeezed fruit juices. The only other thing added apart from the raw foods are Himalayan crystal salt as this is the purest salt with the most minerals, raw cane sugar (totally unrefined) and apple cider vinegar. Cider vinegar has many health benefits and as it's not malt vinegar it means my sauce is gluten free. The sauce also has no preservatives or weird unnecessary additives. I don't even add water to it, I use fresh orange juice instead.</i><br /><br /><i><b>2) You've really emphasised the raw aspect - does it stay that way?</b></i><br /><i><br />No, the sauce is definitely cooked. I just use fresh raw ingredients. I spoke to a contract filler a few weeks ago and they were shocked that I used raw carrots. Why so surprised I asked? and they said: Because we just get dehydrated ones and rehydrate them.<br /><br />I was shocked! <br /><br />It is becoming the norm in food processing plants to just buy in franken-foods and mix them together to hoodwink people's taste buds in to thinking they're being fed something nutritious, when it's not. They can also lie on the label and say : carrots, when really they WERE carrots now they're effectively orange dust. <br />RAAAA don't get me started on those people. They looked my sauce up and down and had never heard or seen anything so preposterous: fresh ingredients? you want to be present for the cook to make sure it tastes right? You think your branding is funny?<br />So after that little meeting I have continued to make the sauce myself in my own commercial kitchen with my own staff. In the future when things get out of control I will have to look in to contract fillers again but jeez that meeting was a nightmare that I was happy to walk away from.</i><br /><br /><b><i>3) When you were creating your sauces based on your travels in South America, what were the flavours you most wanted to incorporate?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i><b> 4) What kind of chillies do you use and what is special about them?</b></i><br /><i><br />My whole sauce motto is: I don't want to hurt you, I just want to add flavour zest and pizzazz to your meal. We all deserve a little bit of pizzazz at meal times don't we? So I use chillies that add flavour rather than just burn. So therefore I love a nice fresh red birds eye chilli. However there are lots of hard nut chilli fans who need something harder, so in my 'Bloody Hot' sauce I add fresh habaneros. I love the smoky taste of them. And for complete mentalists I now have 'The F-Bomb' sauce which has Ghost and Scorpion chillies (as well). They just burn your face off. But some friends requested this and they go mental for it so good luck to them. Personally I only eat 'Hot' with the fresh Birds eyes.</i><br /><br /><i><b>5) So do you use local produce in your sauces?</b><br />Yes I definitely get local stuff when possible. And the majority of the sauce is locally sourced - always the carrots, tomatoes, onions, coriander, capsicums and then chillies and oranges for most of the year. Limes and ginger I get from Australia - but from over east and the garlic is the only imported ingredient (except for the Himalayan crystal salt but we don't have any comparable mountains in Australia) In winter I will have to use chillies from Asia, but the non chilli period here isn't for that long so I can probably avoid it.<br />Vinegar and raw sugar also from over east. <br />So based on percentages I definitely am and always will be a West Australian product.</i><br /><br /><i><b>6) What products are you bringing to the chilli festival, and can you tell us about them?</b></i><br /><i><br />The products I'm bringing to the Chilli Festival are my 5 sauces:<br /><br /><u>Piss Weak</u>: This has C-Bomb's fantastic unique flavour without any burn at all if you ask me. But really piss weak people say 'Ohh that's spicy' Pffft.<br /><br /><u>Medium</u>: Again the same C-Bomb recipe with a few more fresh birds eyes in there, this is the kind of heat your Mum can handle.<br /><br /><u>Hot</u>: The grande dame in my stable this heat level is perfect for most chilli lovers. I can smash a bottle of this on one meal, and often do. Bunster's own choice!<br /><br /><u>Bloody Hot</u>: As the name suggests you really have to be 'one of those chilli freak people' to smash through this sauce. Again same fantastic flavour just with more bite. Chilli freaks get addicted to this immediately. Bless them.<br /><br /><u>The F-Bomb</u>: All the C-Bomb Bloody Hot goodness but with Ghost and Scorpion chillies in there as well to really shut you up. "Got anything hotter than Bloody Hot?", oh yes, yes I do.</i><br /><br /><i><b>7) What is your favourite product and what are your favourite uses for it?</b></i><br /><br /><i>My Favourite heat level is Hot. It's just perfect for me. I can keep eating it and the heat doesn't slow me down. I use it on EVERYTHING. As a salad dressing, in bolognaises, pastas, noodles, casseroles, hummus, guacamole, curries, on eggs, with cheese and crackers, in a sandwich, at BBQs, as a marinade for fish and chicken. I even put it on rockmelon once just to prove a point, and it was fantastic! This sauce adds flavour to whatever you're making so if you're not the best cook or can't be bothered adding garlic, onions, coriander, lime, ginger etc to a dish you're making yourself, just add this and you get that flavour. People will think you are a genius.</i><br /><br /><i><b>8) Dual Action Flavour Curve Technology? Please explain!</b></i><br /><br /><i>Our patented 'Dual-Action-Flavour-Curve Technology' is instantly understood once you taste the sauce. You first get a hit of massive flavour across your tongue, this is the flavour curve, and then after the flavour dissipates in to your tongue, the chilli kicks in. Thus the sauce has dual actions, both moving in different curves. I have a very talented animationist working on a video info-graphic for my site to illustrate the technology. It's all very complicated for people who aren't scientists wearing lab coats and safety goggles to understand so I won't talk too much more about it.</i><br /><br /><b><i>9) So what's your story Renae?</i></b><br /><i>I'm a former television journalist with no formal culinary expertise who just invented this sauce last year after a trip to Latin America. After my friends tried it they started demanding I make it for them. They started knocking on my door at all hours to get it. They started calling me Heisenberg (The Meth Cook from Breaking Bad). So after I got all my friends hooked on my 'product' I realised this might be a business!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>Stay tuned for a recipe using this fresh, fruity, delicious hot sauce! Did I mention it's totally vegan and gluten free? Well it bloody well is! So get your mouth around it!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In other news... <b>ITS CHILLI FEST WEEKEND!!!!</b> YEEESSSS!!!!!! I'm off to pay people to make me cry and have to lay down under a tree somewhere. I am pumped. I never had a real tolerance to chilli until I started to work on it a couple of years ago. Now I'm hooked!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Disclaimer: I have received no free products at the time of writing this post. I purchased a bottle of the sauce at a market and loved it, loved Renae's approach, and wanted to tell everyone. Cos I love local stuff.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-80222190923079599972013-01-18T06:12:00.000-08:002013-01-18T18:59:50.471-08:00Plans for the future...<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There is big change going on in Perth at the moment. A lot of awesome new places opening, there are loads of cool new concepts being explored and Perth is becoming a vibrant and busy city!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The downside of this is, and I guess the mining boom (with FIFO workers flocking back for a week in the city with a fistful of cash and 3 weeks worth of wound up 12 hour shifts style steam to blow off), everything is expensive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I went to the Belgian Beer Cafe in the city a while back and ordered 4 beers. It cost me about $70. WTF?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">PERTH WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So many awesome places opening, small bars, restaurants........... It's hard to come by a decent glass of wine for less than $10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Don't get me started on the red tape binding everyone hands. There are taxes and charges for everything. Every-fucking-thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Paperwork.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Charges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Pay to submit paperwork, no guarantee you'll get anywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I think it's bullshit. There are so many useless government departments (plenty of useful ones I should add), taking loads of money off young, driven, passionate Western Australians. I call shenanigans. This red tape is suffocating the innovation that young people are capable of!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I've never really been one to pay charges and fees for nothing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I don't wanna fill out a million forms for nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">During my time in Bali I saw so many people seeing a gap, or using what they were good at and setting up something small and doing what they do. All they needed was a cart, or a small space. I loved seeing it, and reminded me of how IMPOSSIBLE that is here in Perth. There are good reasons for some things, I understand the need for health and safety etc. But we are on red tape over drive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It inspired me to do what I do. To find a space and do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">WITHOUT all the restrictions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">WITHOUT the need for a huge amount of money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I went to an art exhibition about Paris, Moulin Rouge, the artist was depicting life in the underbelly of this creative capital. All the underground bars, performances, food and drink...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Perth could totally use a place to go that's cheap, with good food, and a relaxed vibe. That has the charm of a small bar, all the fun things a small bar offers, with fun, good food, but you're not leaving $200 poorer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I can see this niche and I can see how I can fill it, without giving all my money and time to a government department. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The fast boat from Padang Bai in Bali costs you about $100-120 (depending on your haggling skills!) and takes about 60-90 minutes. Both our trips there and back were good, pretty calm waters, felt totally safe and had great views. Others didn't think so though, and the smell of vomit wafted around the inside of the boat from some poor girl who sat right up the front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Aaaaanyway. The special thing about Gili T is that there are NO cars allowed. Just bikes, and horse and carts, which cost you about $5 for them to take you almost anywhere. All over the island you can hear the tooting of their bells, or the clanging of their random metal instrument against another random instrument - in order to alert you to get outta the way. They don't really stop that fast...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The mojitos were served to me by a kid who looked about 15, wouldn't tell me his age, was getting hammered himself behind the bar, and danced like Michael Jackson. None of the other barstaff seemed to like him. When his boss wasn't there, the drinks were strong, so we loved him. It was here that we discovered a lot of mojitos are made with brown sugar in this part of the world. It looks like shit but tastes amazing - I much prefer them this way!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We had nasi goreng which we shared, and it was the BEST I've had, it was delicious. Wok fresh, I don't even know what went in it, but it was topped with a fried egg and finished off with a dollop of spicy sambal. We hoed into it like there was no tomorrow! I also got the fried chicken with sambal and rice, which was yummy. S mentioned the sambal was hot and the stall holder who was having a smoke near our table said it was only medium heat, with a snigger. S felt the challenge had been issued, and asked for some of the HOT sambal. He put on a brave face at first, but that was because it took a minute to really hit him. Then it was a lingering burn, and he went all bogan on me and chugged his beer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Oh this chicken also made me sick....... Oooops. S didn't eat any of it because he thought it looked a bit dodgy but I was getting into the spirit of the whole experience and eating everything I could see. This was the only thing I ate that he didn't so... yeah. Bali belly isn't fun kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Nothing that a trip down a dodgy alleyway to a dodgy medical clinic with a dodgy doctor who charged me $50 to poke me and give me immodium and some antibiotics, couldn't fix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Long story short - Go to Gili T, it's beautiful. Ride around the island (doesn't take long), go snorkelling, relax by the beach, and eat some street food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">No, stuff it, get it, it's great, just go to the pharmacy and ask for the bali belly antibiotics FIRST. Get on top of those little mofos. Who are they to stop me eating chicken anyway!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Each day they have a different class with a variety of different dishes, I had trouble choosing! But I chose the class where we made Balinese chicken satay, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawar_(food)">lawar</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gado-gado">gado gado</a>, beans in coconut milk, corn fritters and fragrant yellow rice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our teacher was bright, bubbly and had a great sense of humour. She introduced us to so many different ingredients, included info on how to use them, where to find them and what they taste like. We got a little booklet with all the recipes and I will be digging it out and trying them again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The food was great, my favourite was the lawar, it had great flavour, something different from a normal salad type dish that had the heartiness of meat with the light touch of fresh coconut and salad. Obviously the corn fritters were also great - its deep fried, so it goes without saying really! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">If you're in Bali I can recommend taking a trip out to Ubud to participate in one of these classes. They're fun, informative, and you get a belly full of delicious food at the end of it! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-27511439661699576082013-01-15T19:09:00.001-08:002013-01-15T19:12:11.345-08:00Bali travels #1 - Ubud!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm home! Finally. I've been away for about 3 weeks and it's great to be home. I love travelling and I had a great time, but I'm stoked to be home to get back into a routine and home cooking again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm not going to waffle on about the trip to Bali, I'll just let the photos do the talking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We booked into Mozaic, Ubud for Christmas evening. We wanted to do something special, and this was it! It was a decadent meal full of fois gras (which I don't eat, but some do!), truffles and lobster. It was a lovely evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ubud is a fabulous place to eat and we found some real gems. Naughty Nuri's Warung made some amazing ribs and chicken on a gnarly old grill. We ate there twice, and ate A LOT! They have a menu on the wall and that is it - if you ask for a menu, they just point to the wall. Don't go expecting amazing service, but DO go expecting awesome grilled stuff. We didn't bother ordering anything from the kitchen, we got our fill from the grill! Anthony Bourdain has been here and decided that the martinis are the best he's had outside of NYC. We tried one, they are ROCKET FUEL! I felt hammered after one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ubud is also home to an amazing coffee house called Senimen - they have a massive range of coffee, and scientific methods of getting it from bean to cup! It's a fabulous brew. You can't miss this place if you enjoy coffee!! We had an iced latte on trip, and then an iced coffee the next time. Iced coffee is just that - cold coffee. They used the Sumatra Gayo Mountain beans, and it was gorgeous. There was so much more to it than it just being a cold black coffee. Try it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Another spot to visit in Ubud is Ibu Oka, the warung made famous for its babi guling aka sucking pig. It came in a variety of forms, all tasty. We sat on the floor, ate pork, drank beer. It was good. A little tough, but the flavour was great. We'd eaten babi guling somewhere else previously and this was MUCH better, so the rumours are true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ubud is definitely a place for the food lover. Read up on where you'd like to go and go find them, if the word is out about them, it's likely that its worth the search.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Casa Luna Cooking School.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-68462162805117718182012-12-09T17:51:00.002-08:002012-12-09T17:51:28.398-08:00Long time between posts!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Argh - I've been really bad at posting recently. I've been super busy, with applying for jobs, then getting school reports done, and then just being busy with friends and going out and shopping and and and.... Yeah it's been busy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I cooked up a big roast dinner for some of the teachers from my school - that was a messy night! I discovered Madhur Jaffrey's method of cooking a whole chicken, <a href="http://www.foodari.com/Recipes/Sarah%20Scott/Curried-Whole-Chicken-Durban-Style">Durban style</a> and it's become my staple method of cooking a whole chook! I don't always slash it, or spice it, or take the skin off (so I totally change it really), but I end up with a juicy delicious chicken no matter what I do! Try it for yourself, it's so easy and awesome. I chucked 2 chickens in the oven with a leg of lamb and cooked them the same way (lamb was studded with garlic and rosemary) and they were both gorgeous. Teachers are hungry and they polished off most of the food (and the wine!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Anyway, I'm back - for now! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On the 21st S and I are headed off to Bali for 17 days! Being a teacher I get a lot of holidays, however it's not negotiable when I take them, so S and I don't often get time off together often. This year though, were packing up and heading to Bali - neither of us have been before! I'm really keen to avoid all the drunken, Bintang singlet wearing, obnoxious bogan Aussies that flock there, and so we're avoiding some areas and are heading around the island a little bit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">One of the things I'm really looking forward to, is Christmas dinner at <a href="http://www.mozaic-bali.com/">Mozaic</a>, Ubud. This restaurant headed up by Chris Salans has won a number of awards, including being listed #12 in the Miele Top Asian Restaurants in 2011/12, as well as the being in the top #50 of the San Pellegrino Best Restaurants in the World in 2009. Check out the Christmas menu <a href="http://www.mozaic-bali.com/wp-content/uploads/Xmas-menu-25-with-wine-pairing-Rest-2012.pdf">HERE</a>. Would love to hear from anyone who has been here before! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We also got a tip to head to the Gili islands as well, and upon researching decided that we were definitely going! A bit of island paradise is definitely what we need after this hectic year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Any Bali tips that we need to know about!? We're staying in Sanur, Ubud, Gili Trawangan, Padang Bai and Seminyak!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-81742413138536642802012-11-01T06:00:00.000-07:002012-11-01T06:00:49.764-07:00Healthy foods, Ottolenghi style<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I haven't really been on much of a health kick recently, the exercise has really fallen by the wayside, mostly due to a case of bung legs. Turns out after a couple of expensive trips to the osteopath (including $120 parking fine - City of Perth better spend that well, wankers), it turns out my gluteal muscles aka arse muscles, are not firing {insert fart joke here}. This has caused all kinds of problems from achilles pain, tight and aching calves, and now my lower back is totally rooted. I went to school hopped up on codeine today, and let me tell you, my speech in front of the school about a sports carnival was just gushingly lovely, as was my health class afterwards. I talked. A lot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Anyway, without the exercise, I've turned into a bit of a apex predator - eating everything in sight with reckless abandon. This included bowling club priced booze and masses of cake at the Beaufort Bake and Bowls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But all is not totally lost (the weight sure isn't anyway). I did cook SOME healthy things. I have more healthy things planned too. But not rabbit food, not look-how-alternative-I-can-be-with-my-weird-grains-that-taste-like-wet-cardboard kinda healthy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">YUMMY healthy food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ottolenghi healthy. Plenty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">One night we had <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/21/yogurt-flatbreads-mushroom-ragout">Mushroom Ragout with Yoghurt Flatbreads</a>, which was fuggin amazing. Those flatbreads are soft, the dough is easy to make, even easier to work with and when cooked up, but the easiest thing is scooping up bits of tasty grilled mushroom and wine, with swirls of tangy yoghurt and fresh bursts of parsley. Leftover mushies were piled up on buttered toast in the morning and devoured - they kept me going all day (well, until about 10:30 when I went apex predator on some cake I forgot I had).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Chocolate and chilli is a combination that people either love, or are really skeptical about. I am a lover of this combo, but am so often disappointed that you can't taste any chilli or get any heat. So when I decided to try this combination for myself, I made sure the flavours and heat were there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I used the <a href="http://wherethewindblowsher.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/pimped-chocolate-red-wine-cake.html">chocolate red wine cake recipe</a>, which is an absolute winner, I use that ALL the time now, it's my go to recipe. It's so versatile - if you don't want the red wine in there, use full cream milk instead. You can add all kinds of flavourings to make this batter into whatever kind of cake you like. It works as a cake, or as cupcakes. This time I used mini cupcake tray, which gives me 24 cupcakes (the mix actually yields more than that, I also filled a 12 hole cupcake tray as well!). This is a great recipe for parties because you get so many cupcakes out of it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Make sure you try the batter before you cook it - if you can get a hint of chilli, then it's perfect. When the cupcakes bake, the cayenne pepper becomes more pronounced - you can taste it, and it's hotter! Don't worry - the icing balances it out perfectly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Now, the cream cheese icing... This isn't a recipe. It's just a guideline. I often find cream cheese icing gets really runny. I decided not to follow a recipe and just wing it. It worked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I used a whole packet of cream cheese, and used my KitchenAid to beat it with about a 2/3 cup of icing sugar until it was sweet enough for me, double cream to take the savoury tang off the cheese, and some full cream milk just to loosen it up a bit (because the double cream was REALLY thick!). I added a heaped tsp of cinnamon as well. Just add these ingredients until you get to a consistency you can work with, whether you're piping or just using a palette knife. Use your instinct. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I chose to make a pumpkin cake with a chai drizzle. I used the recipe from <a href="http://delishhh.com/2012/09/24/spiced-pumpkin-cake/">Delishhh</a>, changed a few things, but not really enough to warrant the recipe being written out again, I just added more ginger and used treacle rather than molasses. I got a perfect looking cake, which was moist and really nice. I really liked it! I would definitely make it again!!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-89509152971799814632012-10-04T19:37:00.001-07:002012-10-04T19:37:24.008-07:00Barbacoa beef cheeks with green sauce and salsa<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I wandered around <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Stirling.Farmers.Market">Stirling Farmers Market</a> on Sunday and headed over to the caravan which always has some great quality meat, and this day was no different. I picked up some chunky beef cheeks for $12, enough to feed quite a few, it was a bargain! I wasn't really that keen on making a stew, it's too wintery for this weather. What could I do with this tough, sinewy cut?</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I chose this recipe from Food 52 for <a href="http://food52.com/recipes/2731_barbacoa_beef_cheek_tacos">Barbacoa Beef Cheeks</a>, but adapted it to suit what I have in the cupboard... Looking up Barbacoa, I found out that it's actually a way of cooking meat that originated in the Caribbean and Mexico, and it means to barbeque, usually in a coal pit. Pork cooked this way is called carnitas, which you'll see in many a Mexican restaurant. But interestingly, I found that a typical Mexican barbacoa cooks the meats without any sauces or spices, rather adds them once they're cooked. However there are variations, and the Arawak people, who lived in the Caribbean, are thought to be the first to use this method of cooking, and they add the sauces and spices before cooking as a means to preserve the meat, and this is the method the recipe calls for. It ends up saucy from the cooking juices, and richly spiced, which can be forked apart and piled onto a taco! The recipe includes a teaspoon of instant coffee, which gives the dish a richness and really works together with the smokey characters that the chipotle and smoked paprika give.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I wanted a tasty, tangy sauce to counter the rich, unctuous (that's a wanky food word, but really, I can't think of another word for it!) meat, and so I threw together a bright green sauce of rocket, spring onions, garlic oil, cumin, chilli, tomato, vinegar and cayenne pepper into the blender. What came out was, to quote Nigel Slater, such a bright tasting sauce. I would have preferred to have lemon/lime instead of vinegar, and garlic instead of garlic oil but some days, you run out of things in the house! Today was one of those days. Room for improvement yes, but it was still great. Isn't that what cooking is about? An experiment here and there, finding out what works and making it better!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The salsa I served it with has got to be one of the simplest sides you can serve. It goes with any meat. Really. Roast beef, grilled fish, or slow roasted barbacoa beef! Slice up a couple of tomatoes, spring onions, and if you like, cucumber. Add a generous pinch of salt to draw out the moisture, and a shlug of white wine vinegar. That's it. It's delicious straight away, or after you let the juices develop into a tangy dressing - I make this aaaall the time! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This whole meal requires very little effort, just a little forward planning! This cut of meat is cheap and all the ingredients are easy to find, you'll probably have them all already anyway! The chipotle we found at a specialist spice shop at Coventry Market. We served our meal with corn wraps - in hindsight, get something sturdier, like actual tortillas, you need something to hold onto the juicy contents without splitting!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our last meeting had a theme that everyone got excited about! Retro and childhood cakes had a lot of people reaching for the old Womans Weekly Birthday cookbook, myself included! We had some gorgeous cakes that so many people pointed at and shouted out "Hey I had that cake!!", it was so nice to bring back so many memories! I had quite a few cakes from that cook, the most memorable being for my 2nd birthday (though not sure HOW I remembered it, must be one of my earliest memories!) I had the train cake, with the coloured popcorn cargo! I loved it! My Mum went to so much effort for that cake... I was proud as punch, until Andrew Monk came and ripped the smoke stack off it and shoved it in his mouth! I cried, he got in trouble, and cried... I don't remember much past that though! Great party!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I decided not to do a cake from that book though, and do chocolate. That seems to be my forte - cakes never mess up when they're chocolate in my house! I remember my friend Jemma having sleepovers when we were a bit older, and she always had a death by chocolate cake from the local bakery. We thought it was just the height of over the top amazing cakes, and it was hands down the most delicious option for a cake, ever. Everyone kept peeking under the cardboard lid at it, wondering when we could have at it. This was the cake I would recreate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I went with my old favourite, the chocolate red wine cake. I made 2, and sandwiched them together with Rachel Khoo's chocolate mousse. I then covered it in ganache, piped mousse, cream, and cocoa nibs. Death by chocolate indeed.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-70102020796822952492012-09-04T03:55:00.000-07:002012-09-04T03:55:28.897-07:00Project 12 - September plans = ACTIVE!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ok so this month our plan is to do things that one or both of us haven't done before, and we're going to be doing things to keep active!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">To start out with, we've signed up for <a href="http://www.stampedeinthevalley.com.au/info.html">Stampede in the Valley</a> on the 30th September! This was a friends idea for her birthday, and as soon as I mentioned it to S, he was KEEN! Here is what we've gotten ourselves into!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>"Stampede in the Valley is a 4km obstacle course style race, held in the Swan Valley, on 30th September 2012, at the picturesque Brookleigh Estate cross country field, competitors will be ‘at one with nature’ while fighting their way through muddy, dirty obstacles. This event is a fun run that is fun, and any average person can complete it! Unlike similar events, we don’t want to challenge just those hardcore tough guy types and exclude everyday people so we have different categories for the tough chics and guys and the ones doing it for fun– this event is all about doing things you haven’t done since primary school!<br /><br />The event draws from military style obstacle courses, to create a manic, messy experience for competitors. The race begins with a jog through the beautiful countryside of the Swan Valley before reaching the first obstacle. There are thirty obstacles in total, with a distance of 4km across the whole course. There is no time limit on the course, enabling people of all ages and abilities to complete it at their own pace. This race is about enjoyment and having fun rather than breaking any land speed records!"</i></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We've also teamed up with some friends to do the <a href="http://www.rotaryramble.com/Default.aspx">Rotary Ramble</a>, an Amazing Race style event in Perth! It's in October, so doesn't fall within this month, but hey, we've signed up this month! There's nothing wrong with being active all the time! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's also been revealed that S has never been canoeing! So that is on the list too! I have canoed, but never in the Swan River, so by technicality, its something I haven't done either! S is also keen to try rock climbing, but we'll see if we can fit it in! This is a busy month!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A friend has also recently sent me info on the <a href="http://www.hbffitness.com.au/">HBF Fitness</a> sessions, which, <u>if you're a member of HBF you get access to 48 outdoor fitness sessions, for free!</u> I didn't know that they offered that, and so for me, it's a first! I have never been to group fitness sessions given to me for free by my health insurer lol. If you're not a member you can buy passes to sessions too. Tuesday is yoga, and S has never done it but always wondered what it's like, so he might head on over that session, since they're so close to his work (Langley Park).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On the 14-16th Carolanne and I are headed to Pemberton for the Equilibre Foragers Retreat. It's a weekend away put on by the company who are behind <a href="http://equilibre.com.au/fitness-for-foodies">Fitness for Foodies</a>, the best (and most reasonably priced!) outdoor group fitness sessions I've come across! We'll be hiking around Big Brook Dam, having early morning fitness sessions, getting our biological age assessed as well as having a cooking class, and seasonal spring meal cooked for us. It's going to be awesome, and I'm really looking forward to the balance of active/foodie activities that are on offer! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-92111713828815374702012-08-28T04:57:00.000-07:002012-08-28T04:59:46.355-07:00Project 12<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">S and I have decided to spice up our lives a bit. Not that there is anything wrong with our lives at all, but we've noticed that on the weekends were at a bit of a loss for something to do, and tend to revert back to doing the same old thing. We eat out a fair bit, we play squash once or twice a week, I go out and play netball, he goes running, I organise the Perth Clandestine Cake Club with a friend... We're not bored, but we could do with something different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So the other day S came home with a book called "Losing my virginity 52 times" by David Thieck, an Australian guy who decided to do something new, that he had never done before, each week of the year. His suggestion - lets do that! But adapt it, as one new thing a week is a lot! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So we've decided to make a bit of a theme each month and do AT LEAST one new thing a month, that at least one of us hasn't done before, for a year! Hence the name, Project 12. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So for September, were getting active! We're already reasonably active anyway but it's doing pretty run of the mill stuff. Our aim is to find active things to do in Perth that we've never done before, for all of September!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Some days just call for cake. I don't even eat a lot of cake but I needed to make some anyway. Especially when I see a recipe where I already have everything I need! This was the case with Rachel Khoo's Quatre-quarts aux agrumes, or citrus fruit cake. I had everything except the orange zest. In place of that I had a jar of <a href="http://maggiesplace.net.au/">Maggies Place</a> thick cut 4 fruits marmalade, that I got from my <a href="http://urbanlocavore.com.au/">Urban Locavore</a> box. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A buttery, sweet cake, covered in the contrasting marmalade, which has a touch of sweetness finished off with a kick of bitter orange and a citrus tang! This is a very adult bake, as it is not completely sweet, but sweet enough to know it's cake. To keep it sweet, make a sugar syrup with lemon and rosemary and drown the cake in that instead of the marmalade. Heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I took this to <a href="http://carolanneskitchen.com/">Carolanne's Kitchens 2nd birthday</a> celebrations (I kinda cake crashed! Who brings cake to a birthday party!?) and was happy to see most of it gone! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Flicking through the book, I loved it. Bookmarking recipes, well, there are A LOT I plan on making. In fact this week is pretty much only recipes from her book - some are involved and fiddly, for a Sunday bake up when you have the time (and will) to potter in the kitchen. Others are so easy they're perfect for a week night meal, which are the ones I'll use this week. Will write more about this book as I use it, as I'm sure I'll use it a fair bit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So the recipe that popped out for me was the cured sausage, pistachio and prune cake. It's a really unique combination of flavours and it sounded delicious - however I don't have prunes or pistachios in the house, but I do have a jumbo smoked chorizo sausage from Mondos that I got in my <a href="http://wherethewindblowsher.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/urban-locavore-box.html">Urban Locavore</a> box. Perfect. Rachel mentions that the combo that goes into these savoury cakes can be whatever takes your fancy, or whatever is in your fridge! Serve them with a lightly dressed salad or take them on a picnic. Super versatile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Heres the recipe - adapted from Rachel Khoo's Little Paris Kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>2 cups plain flour </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>15g baking powder</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>1 smoked chorizo (Mondos was delicious!), diced into rounds and quartered</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>2 or 3 fat spring onions, chopped roughly</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>100g fetta (about half the block, I used danish fetta)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>4 eggs</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>100ml milk</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>150ml olive oil</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>3 tbsp plain yoghurt</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>pinch of salt to taste </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>4) Gradually whisk in the oil, milk, and yoghurt, then add the salt and pepper.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>5) Add the crumbled fetta, and fold the mixture together gently, bit by bit. Don't over mix, better to undermix it (you don't want to develop the gluten like you would in a bread recipe, you want a light cake, not a tough one!).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>6) Pour the batter into the prepared tin and cook for 25-30minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave in the tin to cool.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>NB; If you'd rather use a loaf tin (as Rachael's recipe calls for), then bake for 30-40 minutes.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Check out <a href="http://eatingthosewords.com/tag/rachel-khoo/">Eating Those Words </a>for another delicious looking take on this recipe!</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-30765207630901145382012-08-14T06:58:00.000-07:002012-08-14T06:58:28.018-07:00Recipes I MUST try!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is a list as much for you readers to see some new recipes, as it is for me, to remember the recipes that have caught my eye and that I want to make! Feel free to add some of your own in the comments section!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/quick-self-saucing-pudding-L5070.html">Chocolate self saucing pudding</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">GUILTY pleasure that its made in about 10 minutes AND cooked in the microwave! Good lord.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Looks so impressive for so little effort!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.padhuskitchen.com/2011/12/eggless-marble-cake-how-to-make-marble.html">Eggless marble cake</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A good friend of mine is allergic to eggs, and so she often misses out on cakes! This is unacceptable. I will make this one for her!</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-70536052048286980152012-08-10T00:03:00.001-07:002012-08-10T00:03:51.802-07:00You can run!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Even in my days of being in the state basketball squad (not necessarily because I was skilled - not many people tried out, I got in by default), where I was playing sport and swimming almost every day of the week, I have never been a runner. Ever. I struggle to run even a minute or 2. I can play a game of netball without a problem, because I can stop and start all the time, I get a break after a sprint! But tell me just to run as long as I can without stopping - blink and you'll miss it. But I've always WANTED to be able to go running, and like it. Never happened so far though.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I still am not a fabulous runner. However I discovered a program that has really helped me improve my ability to run for longer periods of time, and to cover a respectable distance in a respectable time. For me anyway.</span><br />
<span id="goog_1188086931"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Couch to 5km<span id="goog_1188086932"></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> program/app is what has done it for me. The thing is, you're not expected to run that long. The program works in intervals, you run for 60 seconds and then walk for 90 seconds, and you repeat that for 20 minutes, including a 5 minute walking warm up/cool down. It even SOUNDS less taxing than saying "I'm going for a 3.5km run". Once you've done that 3 times (technically you should do them in a week), you go up a level, and run for a bit longer. Each week the length of time you run increases a bit, and eventually, the walking recovery will decrease. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">For me, it's all mental. If I were to just go out and run, I would feel defeated very quickly. I just can't run that far, and it becomes painfully obvious when you go out that you're just not good at this. C25K tells you to stop and walk. It's not cos you can't do it, this is what the program says. It's challenging, but it's not TOO challenging. You're left feeling like this is a totally achievable amount to run, and it's all over in 30 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">I started to look forward to my runs, and I felt totally energised the following day! Me? A runner? Not yet, but I'm getting there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">The app is free on iPhone and Android - with a paid upgrade to the pro version. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-35467158621881765772012-08-09T19:43:00.000-07:002012-08-09T20:15:03.903-07:00Running away from gazelles.<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In another <a href="http://www.wherethewindblowsher.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2012-07-09T01:58:00-07:00&max-results=7">post</a> I have admitted my inability to be a good runner. You may have seen the picture online somewhere outlining what you feel like when you're running, and what you actually look like. That is me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm sure most people will agree that this is funny, and unfortunatley probably true for most people. We feel like a gazelle, but really look more like a shuffling, wobbly, mouthbreather. For a long time this actually bothered me a bit, thinking that the gazelles running past me would be judging me. I often run at Lake Monger and I used to dread running past the part that was parallel with the road because people would see me running, and judge harshly. But then I got over it. I thought to myself, that if anyone actually IS judging me for how I look when I run then that is a much worse reflection on them than me, and who really cares what someone so shallow thinks anyway? They don't matter. But they're really unlikely to be worried about you at all anyway. I also then thought that if they DID think anything, they SHOULD be thinking "good on you" for getting out and running and doing something positive for yourself. And if they're not thinking that, then YOU certainly should be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I recently went running with a friend who had the same negative thoughts, and while I totally related to her, I realised how sad it sounded. This wasn't me judging her either, as I have had the exact same thoughts myself. It just sounded different coming from someone else. It sounded sad because you're letting other people you don't even know affect how you feel about yourself. You're letting yourself get stuck in the cycle of caring what strangers think about how you look when you run, which then stops you putting 100% into doing something positive for your health, which then perpetuates the negative feelings because you're not doing anything about how you look, which you're sensitive about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's not just you who struggles with the idea of going for a run - it's often the gazelles as well. There are always times when going out for a run is low on the list of things you WANT to do. But the gazelles who look so graceful while they're running have been where you are too. Taking the first step out of the house is sometimes the hardest thing, especially if you're already sensitive about how you look. You feel like people are going to look at you and think all manner of negative things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">They aren't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">What you think is the most important thing - being proud of yourself for taking the first step, and motivated to make plans to continue taking steps are whats important. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Don't even concern yourself with the gazelles. Lions eat them anyway.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-38006029680958976702012-08-02T19:29:00.000-07:002012-08-03T00:04:25.299-07:00Creamy chicken and cashew curry<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My cousin LOVES butter chicken. In fact, as part of my payment plan for her giving me her Kings of Leon tickets, butter chicken and lasagne are the accepted currency. I made her a huge lasagne for when she had some friends coming over, which I'm told she LOVED. She also passed it off as her own, so it was lucky that the friends coming over were her boyfriends, not hers - they would have seen straight through that lie! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This time though my sister organised for us to have a pot luck - she would being entree, I would make the mains and my cousin would bring dessert. So I decided it had better be butter chicken, as she'd been asking for it for a while, and I still hadn't made it. I used a recipe from taste.com.au and while the recipe was easy, using accessable ingredients and really tasty - a butter chicken it was not. That's why I've not labelled this post as butter chicken, it just didn't taste like it, as good as it was!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This was a delicious, mild curry, I liked the inclusion of ground cashews to thicken the sauce, which is the traditional thickening agent used in butter chicken. It's creamy and rich, and it's easy to increase portions to feed a crowd. I didn't add any chilli to this one, as my family are chilli-phobes, but it would be great with a hit of heat to warm the richness of the sauce. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Next time I think I will change this recipe. The way it is now is great for a quick meal to serve a family or friends when you haven't got loads of time (unless you follow the recipe which tells you to marinate the chicken overnight!). I think this sauce would benefit from being cooked with chicken frames to give them flavour - but grilling the marinated chicken and adding it towards the end of cooking to give more depth of flavour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Don't be put off by the long list of ingredients - if you already cook curries, you should have most of this in the cupboard anyway!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em><strong>Creamy chicken and cashew curry</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>1/2 cup natural yoghurt
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>2 tsp grated fresh ginger
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>1.5kg chicken thigh fillets, chopped
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>125g cashews, roasted
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>60g unsalted butter
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>1 tsp ground cardamom
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>2 bay leaves</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>3/4 cup chicken stock </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>1 cup thickened cream
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>Serve with Turban Chopsticks Royal Festival Biriyani and naan breads.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>1) Combine yoghurt, lemon juice, turmeric, garam masala, chilli, cumin, ginger and garlic in a bowl. Add chicken and stir well. Cover and refrigerate overnight (This is optional, the curry is fine if you do it as far in advance as possible - I marinated it for about 30mins).</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>2) Place cashews in a food processor. Process until finely ground, and set aside. Since you have the FP out, blitz the onions too.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>3) Heat the butter and oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the onion, cardamom, cinnamon and bay leaves and cook until the onion starts to soften. Reduce heat to low, then add chicken and marinade, paprika, tomato puree, tomato paste, half the cashew powder and stock. Simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in cream and cook for a further 10 minutes. Check the sauce, and if it is too runny add more of the cashew powder, and reduce it down a little further.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><em>4) Garnish with whole cashews, chopped coriander (if you don't hate it like I do!) and serve with Turban Chopsticks biriyani.</em></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-22106523934992553022012-07-31T06:08:00.000-07:002012-07-31T06:08:16.742-07:00Awards!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I've been slowly plodding along with my blog for a couple of years now, changing direction, doing my thing and just doing it for myself really - I've also used it to help fundraise for the Cancer Council, and organise events. So even though I've only ever really done this for myself and have my own creative outlet, it's still nice when someone else recognises your work, which is what fellow blogger Michelle from <a href="http://jarrahjungle.blogspot.com.au/">Jarrah Jungle</a> has done by awarding myself and 4 other blogs with the Leibster Blog award! <br /><i><br />Liebster is German for "dearest." The purpose of the Liebster Award is to help "newbie" blogs with less that 200 followers get noticed with a sort of sweet "Shout Out" of attention, and likewise, a sort of "Pay It Forward" is included, to help other blogs get due notice and attention.</i><br /><br />How it works:<br /><br />(1)Make a Post about your win putting the award button in your post.<br />(2)Link back to (& follow)the blogger who nominated you for the award.<br />(3)Pick five blogs with less than 200 followers that you feel deserving of the Liebster Award, and leave them a comment on their blog to let them know you've nominated them.<br />(4) Tell the 5 blogs you've chosen to 'Pay It Forward' and 'Share some Blog Love' by following the instructions for 5 more newbie blogs.<br />(5) Share five random facts about ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ok, so here are the 5 random facts about me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">1) I hate coriander. HATE IT! The smell, the taste, both so pungent and nostril invading. It's awful. It's not my fault though, according to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html">science</a>, it's genetic. Ground coriander is delicious. Fresh coriander is the DEVIL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">2) I only have 1 kidney. I was diagnosed with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilms'_tumor">Wilms tumour</a> when I was a new born baby, and my parents were faced with the decision to either remove it, or have me undergo chemo to save it and allow me a life with 2 kidneys. They chose to get rid of it - and I have never had a problem with it! My lone kidney is a ripper, and I reckon it must be huge by now! Life is no different with one kidney, you just have to make sure you play no contact sports because if you get a knock to the kidney and damage it, you have no back up. So far so good, fingers crossed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">3) I have a VERY low tolerance to constant whingers and victims. I very much believe that you must BE the change you want to see, and those who stand around and complain that things aren't as they'd like, but do nothing, give me the shits. Accept who you are, flaws and all - only then can you really take steps toward self improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">4) I speak Dutch - I lived in the Netherlands for 2 years as a nanny, and while I was there I learned the language fairly well. It got to a stage where someone knew I had a weird accent but couldn't put their finger on where I was from - they guessed Belgium, where they are native Flemish speakers, a dialect of Dutch. I was stoked they thought I was a native speaker! I love speaking it, it's quite a musical language and they often sound like they're about to laugh mid sentence. Would LOVE to go back, I only left because my visa expired and I couldn't stay, and I was totally gutted - I was in love with the place!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">5) I love going home to visit my parents, even though I don't go that often. Aside from going home to see the olds and my dog, Mum and Dad always make me cook dinner, which is awesome, because they give me their wallet and tell me to go shopping. AWESOME! I can make what I want. Mum n Dad love it because they don't have to cook, and I love it because I can cook with a bigger budget than what I'm used to. Bonus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">1) <a href="http://lifesshinyprettythings.blogspot.com.au/">Lifes Shiny Pretty Things</a> by Anna Ogilvie. A cute blog about life, goals, travel, love and la dolce vita!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">2) <a href="http://eatmeetswest.wordpress.com/">Eat Meets West</a> by Bri Whitton. LOVE this blog. Recipes and posts about how good it is to live in Perth. Writes with a voice that is totally hers and it always makes me smile. She also cooks delicious things, I know, I've tried them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">3) <a href="http://colpanna.com/">Col Panna</a> by Liv Bambola. Recipes that are totally replicable at home, and some fab cakes! Most recipes have step by step instructions, you cannot go wrong! A gorgeous gal with a lovely fella, and a cute dog!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">4) <a href="http://kirsidee.com/">M</a><a href="http://kirsidee.com/">usings of a happy life</a> by Kirstie Fitzgerald. Does pretty much what it says on the box. She writes about stuff she loves, what shes up to, and extra bits and bobs. Its a new find, even though I've been following her on Twitter for a while! Def worth a read!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">5) <a href="http://www.blueapocalypse.com/">Food Endeavours of the Blue Apocalypse</a> by Ai-Ling Truong. I don't know if she has less than 200 followers or not, I doubt it, she would have more - but she's worth the inclusion. I love this blog because you learn something in every post, they're all really well researched and cover aspects of whatever topic she's writing about that you never thought of. Mostly foodie posts but a few other ones about music and events going on in Perth too! I also think her random facts about herself will be interesting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So now you guys have to "pay it forward" and follow the 5 steps that I did. Though of course, "have to" is a strong word. I just want to read your random facts :D</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-46742705118001282292012-07-17T18:42:00.000-07:002012-07-17T18:53:58.809-07:00Herbed Lamb with Almond Olive Couscous<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is another recipe that has been inspired by Donna Hay and her book Fast, Fresh, Simple. To be honest, it's not a book that I flick through and find much inspiration from. There are A LOT of recipes in there, they're all really short and it seems a bit impersonal. However when I used <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_603817359">Eat Your</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.eatyourbooks.com/"> Books</a>, a website that catalogues your cookbooks and allows you to search for recipes by book/ingredient etc) there were a lot of recipes from the book that appealed to me, and as such I have cooked quite a bit from it! This is another recipe, but I tweaked it a bit as it was a bit TOO simple for me! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is a great post workout meal, as you've got a big hunk of protein sitting on top of a bed of carbs! It's also a great lunch, it'll keep you going for hours! This is so fast, delicious and will leave you feeling satisfied afterwards! You can sub in quinoa or any other similar grain/carb that can soak up flavours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The quantities will be a bit free n easy - it's really up to you to add as much or as little as you like! You should end up with some couscous leftover for lunch the next day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>2 portions of lamb (whichever you prefer to eat)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>3 tbsp oregano or marjoram (dried or fresh - I used dried)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>1 cup couscous</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>Hot stock (enough to cover your couscous about 1-1.5 cups - I used chicken that I made earlier)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>Handful of almonds</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>Handful of green olives (chopped)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>Handful of fresh spinach</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>Extra virgin olive oil</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>1) Lightly oil your lamb and sprinkle 2 tbsp of your herb over the lamb, and grill them over a high heat to your preferred "doneness".</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>2) Pour your couscous into a large bowl with the rest of the herbs, and pour over the hot stock. Cover and leave until you are ready to serve.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>3) Chop your almonds and olives roughly. When the lamb is done, take it off the heat to rest until everything else is done.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>4) Fluff up the couscous with a fork (if you use a spoon it clumps) and add your almonds, olives, and spinach and mix to combine. Add a generous squeeze of lemon, a glug of olive oil and season with salt and pepper.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>5) Slice up your lamb, pile the couscous onto your plate and place the lamb on top. EAT!</i></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250181816296939707noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248259869022598274.post-50532990596496373972012-07-13T07:38:00.000-07:002012-07-13T07:40:39.243-07:00Amazing bread!<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have sung the praises in a previous post about the book Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, and so I thought that I should share the recipe for the bread here, because its THAT easy, and the dough is SO good to work with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's commonly known that for doughs and pastries, everything handles better when it's cold. That is one massive plus of this dough, when it's finished its first rise, it goes in the fridge to mature further - meaning when you take it out to bake, its fridge cold. This dough does not stick much and requires minimal dusting of flour to get it under control. It's a gorgeous dough to use. The recipe I'll give you is the "master" recipe, the plain and simple boule dough, the artisan free form loaf. The book has plenty of other variations, in fact, t<span style="background-color: white;">oday I have a put a dough in that's a mix of dark rye flour, plain unbleached flour, and LSA - it's rising at the moment so stay tuned for how that one turns out!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i><b>NB</b> - I don't use corn meal and I don't have a pizza peel. I just use baking paper, some flour and a round, flat rimmed pizza tray. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>1) Warm the water slightly, it should feel just above body temperature. Warm water will rise the dough to the right point for storage in about 2 hours. You can use cold tap water and get an identical result but will take you 3-4 hours. It doesn't make much of a difference as you only do this once per stored batch.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>2) Add yeast, water and salt to in a resealable lidded container (a pretty big one - I'm using a big pot at the moment!), don't worry about getting it all to dissolve.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>3) Mix in the all the flour at once, kneading is unnecessary. Mix with a wooden spoon, the dough hook of your food processor until the mixture is uniform. You can use your hands if the spoon is difficult, just wet your hands and press the mixture together - don't knead! You're finished when everything is uniformly moist without dry patches. This step should be done in a couple of minutes, and will yield a dough that is wet and loose enough to conform to the shape of its container.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>4) Cover with a lid (not airtight) and allow to rise at room temperature until it begins to collapse (or at least flattens on top), approx 2 hours (depending on the water/rooms temperature). Longer rising times, up to about 5 hours, will not harm the end result. You can use a portion of dough at any time after this period. Fully refrigerated dough is easier to work with than dough at room temperature, so the first time you use this method, it's best to refrigerate the dough overnight (at least 3 hours) before shaping a loaf.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>5) On baking day! Prepare your surface (pizza peel with corn meal, floured surface, baking paper - whatever you like as long as you can get the dough into the oven quickly and easily, as its hot!). Take about a grapefruit sized piece of dough from the container in your fridge and put it on your prepared surface. Sprinkle the surface of your dough with flour and shape it (add flour as needed to stop it sticking) into a ball - you can see how to do this via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcG4PpG1LcQ&feature=related">THIS</a> video. Place it on your baking sheet/pizza peel and let it rest for 40 minutes. Don't worry if the bottom of the dough appears to be a pile of rough ends, in the resting time it will relax and merge with the rest of the dough. You can also make other shapes like plaits or rings.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>6) 20 minutes before baking preheat the oven to about 230C, with your marble stone in the middle, and an empty roasting tray/pan on the bottom shelf.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>7) Dust your loaf lightly with flour and slash whatever pattern you like into your bread, using a serrated knife (a cross, tic tac toe, scallop). Get about a cup of water ready by the oven, and then take your dough to the oven and slide your dough with a quick flick of the wrist onto the marble stone. Pour the water into the roasting pan underneath your marble slab and shut the oven door to trap the steam (this helps the crust develop).</i></span><br />
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