Our Family Pizza and Calzone
We had wonderful homemade pizza when I was a child, with beautiful crisp chewy crusts, but I always saw it …
Category Archives: Dinner
Baked Green Polenta with Eggs
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of polenta in all its variety – from creamy dollops topped with …
French Lentil and Porcini Mushroom Soup
Growing up the only lentils we ate were the standard brown ones. It wasn’t until years later as an adult …
Gari (Sushi Pickled Ginger)
Gari, best known here as ‘sushi ginger’ is not something I ever imagined you could make at home. The incredibly …
Basics Series – Potato Gnocchi with Choice of Sauces
Gnocchi is one of those dishes where I feel there are light years between homemade and almost all the versions …
Dad’s Pappardelle with Tromboncini and Prosciutto
As you might be aware, I particularly like posting recipes using homegrown produce. This one is a recipe from my …
Simple Eggplant Parmigiana
I first came across Eggplant Parmigiana as a over the top concoction of egged, crumbed and fried eggplant slices topped …
Basics Series – Simple Curry Laksa
One of the things the children (if I can still call them that given they’re in the last couple of …
Bear’s Paw Tofu (Xiong zhang dou fu)
I’ve gushed before about how our repertoire of spicy Asian food has been expanded by Fuchsia Dunlop’s Every Grain of …
The Best – Paul’s Pork Vindaloo
I’ve written before, at length, about the TV show and subsequent book that was “The Best”. One of the running …
In Search of Golden Pudding 