Carne Guisida

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February 13, 2012 Carne guisida is Spanish for “stewed meat” which doesn’t sound particularly enticing, but while I’ve done some great taco lay-outs for dinner before (I make great roasted garlic guacamole IMNSHO) I was somewhat sick of the standard beef mince mixture, I wanted something a bit more substantial. Enter carne guisida, a Mexican-style beef stew that can {Tags: , , , , } {More...}

Chilli Con Carne

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October 1, 2010 I have the day off today.  I finished working at my last job yesterday and don’t start a new one until Tuesday.  I’m at home by myself and I have a giant bag of large red chillies from the Redfern Carriageworks Markets.  I also have organic onions, mince from Marion Plains and everything else I {Tags: , } {More...}

Bolognese

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June 29, 2010 Bolognese is a meat sauce, and it’s (believe it or not) registered with the traditional recipe decreed by the delegation of Accademia Italiana della Cucinato have no other ingredients than beef, pancetta, onions, carrots, celery, tomato paste, meat broth, red wine, and milk or cream. There’s fewer fights on just about every recipe composition, if {Tags: , , , } {More...}

Bestest Beef Bourguignon

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June 18, 2010 Beef bourguignon is one of those recipes which I think a lot of people are frightened of.  It’s really not that difficult to cook, but it is time consuming – and if your fear comes from how it’s probably not the closest thing to tofu or salad then you potentially have some cause for concern. {Tags: , , } {More...}

Strog Blog

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March 10, 2010 Yesterday I didn’t get time to eat lunch so I wanted something fairly substantial for dinner.  My wife makes a delicious beef stroganoff and I thought I’d try my hand at something similar.  If I intended to come up trumps I need to use my usual trick of  top quality ingredients – in this case {Tags: , , } {More...}

A Simple Meal, In More Than One Way

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March 7, 2010 Tonight’s dinner was pasta with Arrabiata sauce and meatballs; a really, really simple meal.  What makes this blog-worthy (at least as far as I’m concerned) is that the meal was simple not just because it had few ingredients and was not challenging to make, it was made out of incredibly high quality ingredients that had {Tags: , , , } {More...}

Rendang dang dang dang!

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February 15, 2010 Rendang curry is a Thai restaurant favourite (although it’s originally Indonesian and popularised by the Malay) and from what I’ve seen around the web, it causes vexation.  Talking on Twitter tonight about making it has caused at least one person to specifically ask me to blog about what I did because their efforts haven’t come {Tags: , , , } {More...}