Time just flies, doesn’t it? Australia Day is almost upon us, and we know that you’re not truly ‘strayan until you fire up that barbecue! Well, while most people will turn to a really beautiful cut of meat, it can get really expensive budgeting a steak per person for 20 people. (I don’t know about you, but I can eat a kilo of steak in a sitting easy! I usually try and bring my own meat to a barbecue, obvs.)
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So we all know that I hate HATE food waste. And part of how I deal with leftovers at home is to transform it into something else entirely, so that I can use up every last bit of food!
Well, I recently made my own black garlic, AND made my own butter. So what do you do with a MASSIVE amount of garlic and butter sitting in your fridge? Garlic butter. Yes, it’s that easy.
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There are totally some things that we take for granted. Need to make cookies? Better put butter down on that shopping list!
Well it’s so dead simple to make butter at home, and you know what? It’s a great way to prolong the life of that cream you can’t finish!
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So I think I’ve established just how much I love garlic – from my miso caramelised garlic bread, to making my own black garlic at home, I will endlessly try to find more excuses to have more garlic in my life.
I also really love mayo. The answer? Black garlic aioli.
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I have an intense, if somewhat stinky, love affair with garlic. Fresh, roasted, braised, steamed…I will take it any way I can get it.
Even if it somewhat, uh, impedes romantic overtures.
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I love tuna. Love it in all its forms. And rice. Love that too.
So when it comes time to put together a weeknight meal that’s delicious and comforting? Tuna Rice is most definitely the answer.
Inspiration comes in odd places, sometimes. For me, it mostly comes in the form of leftovers. I love getting whole pumpkins in winter to roast, but Sam isn’t such a fan of pumpkin, leaving me pretty much up to my neck in orange stuff, because there’s only so much roast pumpkin you can eat before you want to move on.
So what DO you do with leftover roasted pumpkin? Me, I like to mash it up, because then, it gets a second life as a whole bunch of things. This time, as my pumpkin bread!
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I never thought I’d say this, but garlic bread has become somewhat of a guilty pleasure in my house. We all know that garlic can have, uh, off-putting effects in terms of breath, but it’s just so damned delicious I can’t stay away!
Especially when you mix it with the sweet salty notes of miso caramel. Oh yes.
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It’s funny how smells and memories work. There are so many stinky things in the world that I associate with deliciousness – durian, fish sauce, sauerkraut, blue cheese…all these smells make my mouth water and my tummy rumble, even though there are some who would turn their nose up in disgust. I guess it comes from growing up in Singapore. Once you start associating stinky with delicious at a very young age, you start getting very excited to try the weird and wonderful. And hey, if nothing else, it’s a great ice breaker at a party.
Fermented shrimp paste is one such favourite that really baffles my friends. This stuff hits your nostrils the moment the seal on the jar is open, and has a somewhat sour/salty aroma that is quite similar to fish sauce. But add that to chicken and the deep fryer? And you’ve got prawn paste chicken (had jeong gai), a local favourite that graces almost every special occasion, family gathering, and children’s birthday party.
Trust me, this stuff is freaking delicious.
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Dumplings are awesome. They’re the closest you can get to creating the perfect bite, and these handy little parcels are just so gosh darned cute.
So when I made my Shiitake Mushroom Ramen recipe and had leftover mushrooms, I knew exactly what I wanted to make: Vegan Shiitake Mushroom Gyozas to go with it!
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