Search Results for: sauce

  • Har Mee (Prawn Noodle Soup)

    I have my Dad to thank for a lot of things. For my love of reading. For forcing us to go with him to see Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October, in which a much younger Alec Baldwin proves indisputably that brains are better than brawn. For taking me cockling every summer. For sending […]

  • Stir Fried Noodles with Chicken, Green Beans and Cauliflower

    We’ve been cooking a lot of stir fries lately – they’re easy and quick to prepare, you can use whatever you have in the fridge, you only need one cooking pan and dinner is on the table within minutes. It’s convenience food but way better than anything you could heat up out of a box. […]

  • Home Made Pappardelle with Prawns, Chilli and Garlic

    One thing I love about Mr Hungry Australian is that he’s a great cook. When we first started dating he was working as a consultant. So some days he’d be super-busy and other days I’d go over to his house to find he’d made oven baked lamb shanks with gremolata and mashed potatoes for a […]

  • Rosemary Lamb Roast with Potato Bake

    If you were living in Australia in the 80s you probably would have seen this TV advertisement starring a then unknown Aussie actor. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1YV9Bj72c] Did you recognise her? Yes, that’s Australian actor Naomi Watts turning down a date with Tom Cruise in favour of her mum’s lamb roast. Tom Cruise was then fresh from the […]

  • Dreamy Chai Rice Pudding

    I seem to have developed a semi-serious addiction to chai lattes. There’s something about the combination of cardamon, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and star anise that is just so lovely and warming. And I adore rice pudding – it’s one of the ultimate comfort foods. So this Chai Rice Pudding recipe brings together two of my favourites. This […]

  • Chinese Sausage and Spinach Pizza

    If this isn’t a perfect example of fusion food, I don’t know what is. I came home yesterday to find that Mr Hungry Australian had made this Italian-Chinese pizza. I was quietly appalled. It just seemed so wrong. Slightly disturbing even. But then I tasted it. And as I silently chewed, I made a mental […]

  • Fresh Picked Crab Dip

    Fresh picked crab is an absolute luxury. Picking the crab meat out of its shell is both time consuming and finicky work so it’s a real labour of love. I am extremely fortunate because it’s a labour of love my dad willingly performs for me every time he catches and cooks crabs. I know, I […]

  • The Cooks Pantry, Grange

    Situated on Jetty Street in Grange, The Cooks Pantry is one of those rare neighbourhood cafes that is everything a good local hangout should be. Everything has been thoughtfully put together here. From the stylish and practical outdoor seating to the range of mouth-watering take home gourmet food on offer, The Cooks Pantry has clearly […]

  • Feel Good Fettuccini Carbonara

    This is not exactly diet food but then who wants to eat diet food all – or even some – of the time? Not me, that’s for sure. Yes, this dish is substantial. But that’s exactly what I crave at night in this coolish weather – a big bowl of carbohydrates with something creamy and […]

  • My Grandmother’s Penang (Asam) Laksa

    UPDATE: this recipe has been simplified and re-blogged here. And I’ve changed the photo above to the new version. But please do read on for a story about my grandmother and how this recipe came to be. The mere whiff of a favourite family dish can evoke so many memories. When I inhale the fragrance […]

  • Family Fun at the Royal Adelaide Show

    When I was a young girl my parents took my brother and I to the Adelaide Royal Show every year without fail. As we were only allowed two showbags each, my brother and I spent days comparing the relative merits of different showbags, using a complicated formula I would be hard pressed to recreate today. […]

  • Weisswurst with Sauerkraut, Red Cabbage and Mash

    Weisswurst (white sausage) served with Sauerkraut, red cabbage and potato mash is real German comfort food. So when I wanted to spoil my (German) husband this week, I immediately thought of cooking him this dish. I first ate this Teutonic version of sausages and mash in Munich in 2004. I had travelled to Germany with my […]

  • Easy-Peasy Honey Soy Chicken

    This is what I make when I’m in a mad hurry and have no time to think about cooking. Honey Soy Chicken is ridiculously quick and easy to make; it literally takes only a couple of minutes. You chuck the marinade on the chicken and give it a stir, then you leave it for a […]

  • Slow Cooked Beef in Red Wine

    I have a confession: I’m a slow cooking novice. I’ve steamed, I’ve baked, I’ve stewed, I’ve boiled and I’ve stir-fried. But until yesterday, I’d never slow cooked before. I know I’ve been, ahem, slow to jump on the slow cooking bandwagon. People have been telling me for years how they lived by their slow cookers during winter. […]

  • Caramel Pudding with Honey Ice Cream

    There are times when you just need to make a pudding. Perhaps you’ve had a lousy day at work. Or you are feeling a little fragile. Maybe you just feel like spoiling yourself and those lucky enough to be fed by you. Whatever the reason, the tail end of winter, with its beautiful, sunshiny days and cool […]

  • Throwing a kid’s birthday party without losing your mind

    Children’s birthday parties often start with squeals of delight and joyful anticipation but end in tears and swearing. From mum and dad, I hasten to add. You see, us Generation X parents always want to do our best for our kids. Our mothers made us every single cake from The Australian Women’s Weekly Cake Cookbook […]

  • Postcard from Malaysia

    8 days in Malaysia = 40 meals = me coming home with an extra 3 kgs around my waist. Was it worth it? Oh, yeah. Because Malaysia is a foodie’s paradise. There’s just so much good stuff to eat there. Malaysia boasts a wonderful mix of Malaysian, Indian and Chinese food, along with the intriguing Nonya style […]

  • Adelaide’s best Vietnamese pork roll?

    I love Vietnamese pork rolls. No, let me say that again: I LOVE pork rolls. So when my husband came home raving about a pork roll he’d had for lunch I was naturally intrigued and made him promise to buy me one ASAP. I was introduced to my very first pork roll by my good friend, […]

  • Mushroom Chicken For Fussy Eaters

    Yesterday my daughter told me that she wanted to go to her Grandma’s house for a snack because “she cooks so much better than you.” When asked to explain, she said, “I only like Popo’s cooking. I don’t like anything that you cook, ever.” Now that’s kids for you. There’s no harsher food critic than […]

  • Beef and Carrot Noodle Soup

    Brrrrr! I find this cold weather very tiresome. Winter in Adelaide is nothing extreme but I’m a summer girl and I don’t cope well with it. All I want to do is huddle close to a heater, wrapped in layers, with a bowl of something warm in my hands. Thankfully, this easy recipe of my […]

  • Fried Rice – Chinese Comfort Food

    Good food doesn’t have to be complicated. This recipe is a case in point. Fried rice couldn’t be easier or quicker to make yet it tastes simply wonderful. And it makes you feel warm and loved in the way that only the best comfort food does. I like serving fried rice with roasted soy sauce […]

  • Sexy Food

    You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Some food is just plain, well, sexy. I’m talking about food that gets your blood pumping. That makes you sigh with pleasure. So what is sexy food? In my (black) book, it’s food that is confident,sensual, special, tantalising, incredibly fresh, and seductive. But it can also be […]

  • Jiaozi (Dumplings)

    Adapted from a Gourmet Traveller recipe, these dumplings are perfect as a quick after work supper or as the first course for a dinner party. Moreover, if you’re feeling stressed out, making the dumplings is distinctly relaxing in its repetitiveness. Better yet, any leftovers are wonderful pan-fried the next day for breakfast. JIAOZI INGREDIENTS 1 […]

  • 8 Dishes to Try in Shanghai

    From 2003-2006, my husband and I lived in Shanghai, China. We moved there on his job with a Danish engineering firm, but I also found a great job there and we enjoyed three exciting years. Here’s a photo of me on the Bund when we had just arrived. Besides friends, one of the things I […]

  • Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup

    I cooked this a couple of years ago for my cousin May when she visited us in Melbourne. She took one mouthful and said, “this is your mum’s soup”, even though she hadn’t tasted it in 20 years. What a wonderful compliment! My version of mum’s soup is not an exact replica but that hardly […]

  • Gluten-Free Two Minute Noodles (Fangbian Mian)

    I love the convenience of two minute noodles, literally ‘convenient noodles’ in Chinese. With some veggies and a beaten egg thrown in, a snack is never more than a couple of minutes away. However, the MSG and salt laden flavour sachets they come with leave me itchy and thirsty and wheat doesn’t always agree with me. So […]

  • Hawker Food Hit List

    My father was born in Penang, Malaysia, and his family later moved to Kuala Lumpur. Until I moved overseas, I used to visit Malaysia once a year with my family and food was always a major feature of these trips. My Grandmother, my Popo, is an amazing cook. Her version of Asam Laksa (the sour, […]

  • Fish and Eggplant Curry

    Fish and eggplant may sound like a bizarre combination, but trust me, it really works. I love this curry of my mother’s. She made a big pot of it for me when my daughter was a newborn. I was constantly ravenous as I was breastfeeding around the clock then and I remember eating large bowls […]

  • Creamy Mushroom Pasta

    When my husband took me to Germany for the first time, mushrooms were in season. For lunch one day his mother cooked us pancakes with a creamy mushroom sauce using fresh pfifferlinge and dried steinpilze (porcini). Inspired by this lovely meal, we took dried steinpilze back to Shanghai and created this dish.