The Cookbook Challenge Week 22: Prawn Ravioli with Sauce Vierge

Cookbook Challenge Theme: Red
I am way behind with the Cookbook Challenge. Each week rolls around too quickly and I have been too busy to give much thought to the Cookbook Challenge. I have half-heartedly attempted to complete week 22 theme of “red” by using a recipe with red tomatoes. I have omitted a couple of [...]

The Cookbook Challenge Week 19: Tomato Risotto with Mussels

Theme: Rice
No matter how many times I’ve made a risotto, I have not been satisfied with how it turned out. My risotto always end up tasting stodgy. I use hot stock and constantly stirring and adding more stock once all the stock has been absorbed. But instead of a creamy risotto, I get really thick [...]

Gỏi Mực – Vietnamese Squid Salad

Summer may be coming to an end but we are still experiencing a heat wave. But this is also the weather to enjoy a refreshing Vietnamese salad (gỏi). Vietnamese salad is a resfreshing healthy crunchy dish that when drizzled with the fish sauce dressing it’s an explosion of flavours in your mouth.
Prawns and pork are [...]

Ginger and Spring Onion Mud Crabs

The thought of traffic mayhem and hundreds of shoppers in a buying frenzy did not deter me from going to Sydney Fish Market on Christmas Eve. Yes, the length I go to for fresh seafood. Hundreds of Sydneysiders were thinking the same too as this was one of the busiest day at Sydney Fish Market. [...]