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I've been reading Slashfood for awhile now, and they recently mentioned they have a Flickr Group and would be choosing a "Photo of the Day" from it. So I submitted my weekend dinner photo, and lo and behold it was chosen! Ela pointed out to me later that they linked my name to Junkheap, so I thought I'd mention it :)
Recently I've had a food related ideas that would result in content for this blog, but I don't want to commit to anything because I'm inherently lazy and might not get around to it for awhile! Still, if you're here from Slashfood, add me to your RSS reader! I can sit there idling until I get around to doing some food content!
Posted by Marcin on
15/01/2008 @ 18:57 +1100
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Tags: food, food porn
Before I get into it, I'd never bothered to check until now but it appears that calamari is Italian for squid, but defined as the "culinary name when squid is prepared as food". It gets used on menus because it sounds "nicer".
Something that's always gotten my goat has been the fact that calamari in restaurants is treated the same as prawns when it comes to pricing. You pay $15 (or something) for a "salt and pepper calamari" dish and end up with 6 pieces of calamari - WTF Mate?
Here's the skinny - I live near the Sydney Fish Market so eat a reasonable amount of seafood. Calamari costs about $7/kg in "squid tubes", with about 3 or 4 squid tubes (about $5-6 worth) you can make a big bowl of salt and pepper calamari. In my recipe for Salt and Pepper Squid I used (from distant memory) 1 or 2 squid tubes and ended up with way more than you'd get in a restaurant. So the average serving of Salt and Pepper Calamari in a restaurant probably has 50c to a dollar worth of squid in it.
Now to compare, green (ie. uncooked) prawns run to about $20/kg for medium sized ones, so it's slightly more understandable that restaurants are a bit more stingy with them. Even so, you sometimes get 6 prawns for $15 with a few veggies and a sauce, which is probably about $3 worth of prawn.
.. and all this is with retail prices, restaurants are probably getting it a whole lot cheaper wholesale.
I don't mind paying $15 for Salt & Pepper Calamari - just give me a decent amount of squid in it!!
Posted by Marcin on
04/01/2008 @ 13:18 +1100
Tags: food, seafood
This isn't actually a recipe posting because this recipe came from Cook with Jamie, so it'd be rude to post it. This is more of a post to say how freaking tasty this thing was.
Apple and Walnut Risotto - not necessarily as pretty as it tastes :)
The recipe contains 100g of Gorgonzola, 50g Goat Cheese, plus parmesan for 300g of raw rice. This was only a half-portion of the recipe too, although according to the book the full recipe serves 8.
The flavour is very strong thanks to the Gorgonzola, however with the apple and walnut it all really comes together well.
And to think I never used to like the idea of a risotto because I thought it'd be just gluggy rice. This was my second, and now I'm hooked and can't wait to try some other risotto recipes!
Posted by Marcin on
19/02/2007 @ 18:25 +1100
Tags: blog, food, risotto
Serves: 2
This is a quick recipe that you can cook in about 15 minutes (plus about 10 minutes to prepare your ingredients). You cook the sauce in the time your fettucine takes to cook, and then combine the two in the pan.
Creamy Mushroom Fettucine - ready to serve
Continue reading Recipe: Creamy Mushroom Fettucine
Posted by Marcin on
03/01/2007 @ 20:06 +1100
Tags: recipe, food, food porn
I enjoy cooking, which my wife thinks is great. I like browsing through the cookbooks at the bookstore, and have more than once bought a book because I had started salivating over the pictures (usually because I went there on an empty stomach). I didn't make up the term, but I like to call nice pictures of food that make you want to eat it "food porn".
Continue reading Food Porn and Salt and Pepper Squid Recipe
Posted by Marcin on
09/10/2006 @ 17:52 +1000
Tags: recipe, food, seafood
So a lot of the recipes in the Thai cookbook I use have a weird method of the initial step of cooking the meat. For example say the recipe calls for 500g of sliced beef, and 4 chopped cloves of garlic. The recipe will say to fry half the garlic until light brown, then add half the meat and stir fry for 2 or 3 minutes. It then says to remove the meat, and repeat with the other half of the garlic and meat. At the end you put ALL the meat back in, add sauces and continue.
The only reason I can see for doing this is if you have a pathetic little wok that can't even hold 500g of meat while stir frying. Bah! Those kinds of woks are an abomination unto Nuggan.
My wok which happily holds 1KG of meat and vegetables and has room for stirring and frying.
Posted by Marcin on
07/09/2006 @ 20:32 +1000
Tags: food, cooking, recipes
Eating our fresh mussels for dinner tonight we found some baby crustaceans in a fair few of them! Hard to tell who was eating who, but I suspect the crustaceans (crabs and a Moreton Bay Bug from the looks of it) were probably crawling inside the open mussel to eat it and then the mussel was closing, trapping the little sea creature.
Anyway, it didn't detract from the delicious meal, apart from requiring a bit of extra care. Although they were soft, so probably could have quite easily been eaten without any trouble. Should have gotten some better pictures in better light in retrospect, oh well.
Posted by Marcin on
03/09/2006 @ 20:38 +1000
Tags: blog, food
So I was following a recipe the other day, for something from a Thai cookbook I have. The last step said "taste and adjust seasoning if neccessary". I'm following a recipe, I don't know what it is supposed to taste like? How am I supposed to know if it needs adjusting? What am I supposed to use to make the adjustment? Help!
I really should get around to adding comments to this site.. Update: Done!
Posted by Marcin on
31/08/2006 @ 21:21 +1000
Tags: food, cooking, recipes
I've been thinking and reading a lot about bushwalking food lately. Rather than just taking whatever feels right (light weight and decent feed mainly) actually making a conscious effort to think about how much energy a food provides for a given weight. The next bushwalk I'm planning on going on is to the Budawangs on 13-14 May, and I wanted to try and experiment a bit with different food - we have been taking pretty much the same stuff on every walk so far so it's time for a change.
Continue reading Bushwalking Food
Posted by Marcin on
01/05/2006 @ 20:21 +1000
Tags: bushwalking, food