When you’re travelling with kids there are obvious culinary allowances you have to make, especially in south east Asia. Our kids go to bed pretty early so we can’t eat late. We tend to eat at relatively ’safe’ (read: sanitary) places and have to avoid stuff that the kids may find too freaky or spicy. Plus, the kids tend to want to do things other than eating (weird, I know) so we will have to save the major culinary excursions for when the kids are old enough to leave with the grandparents for several days at a time.The Hong Kong bender for my 40th and Pete’s 50th birthday has entered the planning stage… » Read more: Balinese chicken salad
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Balinese chicken salad
April 27th, 2010Orange and tarragon roast chicken with Vanessa’s squash
March 1st, 2010One of my pet peeves is produce snobs -you know, people (by which I mostly mean TV chefs) who rhapsodise over the glories of an invariably expensive and impossible to obtain product. Quite often they will even tell you that you must not, ever ever ever, even think about attempting a particular dish if you cannot obtain this particular rarity. It’s not that I think they’re wrong, it’s just that it’s not at all helpful. Sadly, most of us have to jam food shopping,preparation and consumption into increasingly tiny apertures of our day and seeking out this kind of produce just ain’t going to happen. And when you live in a small country town like I do,exciting produce is by and large just a distant memory… » Read more: Orange and tarragon roast chicken with Vanessa’s squash
Salted Chicken
December 7th, 2009There is a place on Russell Street (I know many of you know it),wedged unpromisingly between the porn shop and the disposals. It’s called Nam Loong and, on an analysis of cost to gastronomic return it is hands down my favourite Chinese restaurant. Pete introduced me to it when we first met nearly 18 years ago now, and he was introduced to it by his biological father who had been going there for god knows how many decades since he moved to Australia from Malaysia. » Read more: Salted Chicken
Vietnamese chicken (or tofu) and mango stir fry
November 3rd, 2009So mum and dad flew out to Singapore yesterday to stay with my brother. Dad is a south east asian stir fry master and in his absence I have kindly organised to babysit his favourite cookbook “Green Mangoes and Lemongrass” by Wendy Hutton and published by Periplus. Tonight I tried my first recipe out of this, a chicken stir fry with mangoes, cashews, snow peas and tomatoes. Basically it’s a very subtle and quite sophisticated sweet and sour and was very popular all around (most particularly with Alex (5) and I, I think). The pool of sauce at the bottom of the plate was an absolute sensation and finished with the taste of lime and black pepper which sent me straight back to Cambodia and memories of eating at a street stall in the pouring rain outside the Bayon temple. » Read more: Vietnamese chicken (or tofu) and mango stir fry
