Dont pay too much attention to my quantities, they are just guides. If you lamb leg is bigger or smaller adjust according to common sense, why is it that very smart people seem to get intimidated and lose all sensibility when it comes to cooking? A 2kg Lamb leg – debone and pound out into [...]

So this is the kind of food creative super yacht chef come up with…. Melt 50g butter, add two teaspoons soy letichin, 50ml soy and juice of a lime, using a cream canister charge with nos or aerate with a stick blender I cannot really claim this one, it is a ripoff of a great [...]

The fruit native to South American mountains so loved by Kiwi’s that some consider it worth a trip home for the autumn harvest (any excuse to go home eat some icecream and do some bombs). Here in California they turn up in fall, are known as pineapple guava and you have to buy them. I [...]

Never another vol au vent, no more stuffed cherry tomatoes, Argaarch! Smoked salmon, I won’t even finish the description. I’ve had my fill of crostini and will be happy not to toast another bruschetta or brush butter on filo pastry. I seek the new, unknown and creative Half the creative canape battle is presentation, The [...]

I join the queue of successful fishermen. It’s a dollar a fish for the deckhands to fillet your catch. The gulls and pelicans swoop, grabbing and gobbling up the discarded fish trimming. The waste, oh the waste! My issues kick in and I decide to keep my fish whole. “Can you just scale, gill and [...]

Is it like New Zealand food? Californians are into fusion,

An early Heston Blumenthal’s creation that led to his nitro green tea dessert, it is very easy, soo much fun and it actually produces a good result too Make a custard, flavour it with anything you like, my favourite for this technique is chai Ginger, cardamom, clove, cinnamon, fennel seeds, peppercorns, black tea Brew in [...]

One of the few things I retained from my economics training is that waste is inefficient but the models I was taught always showed how interfering with the magical market was always the cause of the inefficiency (something about deadweight loss). Our current economic system is full of inefficiencies from the motorways (oh sorry do [...]

So we should eat them, why do we westerners have an aversion to heads? Putting a face to flesh makes it harder to consume recklessly? Are the eyes are the problem? What do you do with a pig face? I decided to smear it with a porchetta inspired mix, fennel seeds, sage, thyme, rosemary, lotsa [...]

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