Posted by Ash Simmonds in Blog, Featured, Recipes
on 14th Aug, 2012 | 1 comment
Pork is so difficult to do in the oven as it makes my apartment look like my flatmates are Cheech & Chong, and I’ve already had the building evacuated once before so I’m keen to find a way to enjoy pork belleh without having the local fire brigade crash my party.
I’m yet to find anyone else do pork belly on a regular BBQ grill plate, every method I’ve found via the Google has been for either ovens or Weber-like contraptions, so I thought screw it, I’ll give it a shot.
Standard Woolies pork belly, probably not the greatest quality but I was just hungry. It says free...
Posted by Ash Simmonds in Blog, Featured, Recipes
on 12th Jun, 2012 | 1 comment
Today was the first home-cooked steak of the month… wow.
Sadly our options of meat were limited, so we ended up going to Foodland (a multinational general supermarket), but in the end the meat we got was… ok
Also bought some “offcut” salmon to go with it for a bit of the surf n turf feel.
Was in a friend’s unfamiliar kitchen so worked with what I could find – no olive oil to pre-rub the steaks with stuff, instead used lemon juice which many have been an error – if only a slight one.
Ended up covering them with lemon juice and pepper and this new chimmichurri...
Posted by Ash Simmonds in Featured, Recipes
on 14th Dec, 2011 | 1 comment
A simple, juicy, and outrageously tasty meat patty – would be a shame to put it on a bun.
Ingredients
500g of beef mince
2 rashers (slices) of bacon
1 egg
1 cup grated cheese
1 tbsp minced garlic
Bunch of cracked pepper, herbs, spices etc.
Dice
Hack that hog to bits.
Combine
Chuck it all (apart from the cheese) in a mixing bowl (or if you’re a lazy bachelor like me who doesn’t own bowls – a frypan), and smoosh it all together with your fingers.
Sculpt
Create a meat brain for funsies.
Foundation
Separate the left hemisphere and make a bunch of cookie-size patties with a slight...