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Seafood Risotto

June 20 th 2008

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“oohhh, I am so looking forward to your Fathers Day dinner” said Danika, with a rather cheeky smile on her face. Yep, that is right folks, I cooked my own Fathers Day dinner, and was bloody happy about it. Not that Danika isn’t a good cook – far from it, she is awesome, but it is just me and cooking. I obviously love it (who the heck would have a food blog if they didn’t!!!). Cooking, above anything else relaxes me. If I have had a tough day at work, I am, it has been said, not that fun to be around until I get into the kitchen.

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True Cod and clams, sea beans/rocket/English peas, fines herbs fish broth – and cooking with Dearie

June 9 th 2008

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“Dearie? Who the heck is Dearie?” you ask….. The answer, my Mum. Yep, we call her Dearie. That isn’t her name, it isn’t even remotely close. Somehow, somewhere in my childhood we got to calling her Dearie. It just stuck. It now seems really odd in fact to call her Mum. Dearie she is. It rather suits her actually, as anyone that knows her would say.

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Caramelized Miso Rice cakes, crsipy skin salmon, sesame julienne vegetables

June 3 rd 2008

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I was wondering this weekend what to cook for a blog post. We normally trot off to a farmers market, get something special, and I work a decent(ish) dish out of it for a nice, lovely blog post. This weekend I was stumped. I normally muse over things a bit through the week, so that I have an idea of what I want to do at the weekend. I didn’t this week. Work has been crazy, and I haven’t thought about much else.

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Kampachi – Three ways

May 19 th 2008

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I have a confession to make. When the people at Kona Blue sent me a fish to play with a month ago, they wanted me to try cooking it a few different ways. I didn’t. We ate almost all of it as the Kampachi Tartare. There was enough left over to cook it, but certainly not enough to try it with a few different methods.

So, I bought some more. Crazy birthday parties out of the way, this weekend I had some time to get to know this fish a bit better, but this time cooked instead of raw. I wasn’t a huge fan of it cooked when I cooked it as skewers, a few posts ago. I found the meat overly fishy in flavor (and I normally really like a good strong fish taste, but this just tasted old), and lacking in texture.

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Halibut, saffron-mussel liquor velouté, fava beans, watercress and fresh peas

May 6 th 2008

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I have been thinking of sauces somewhat of late. I used to cook a lot more with a French influence, mainly thanks to the simply incredible book French Provincial Cooking, by Elizabeth David. This book is a complete classic. No pictures, and it can be a nightmare to cook from, especially if you are a new cook. Saying that however, this is the book that I really started cooking from. She is so descriptive with her prose that there is honestly no picture that could do the recipes in here justice. She seems like a colorful character, extremely blunt and to the point, with a huge passion and love of French cooking, history, and the people of such an amazing country. This is honestly a cookbook that everyone should have. We aren’t talking haute cuisine here at all – this is basic French food, with tons of character. Everything however is about technique. It was this book that really made me focus on getting things perfect, and not ever sitting back – always pushing forwards, experimenting, and trying to perfect a dish.

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Kampachi Tartare

April 29 th 2008

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Ahhhh Kampachi. If you look rather attentively through my latest posts, that fish crops up a little bit ago. A couple of weeks ago I made a few skewers, and one of them held some wonderful Kona Kampachi fish.

Well, god knows why, I decided to send a link to the photos and blog entry to Kona Blue, the people that raise the Kampachi fish, in Hawaii. The delightful bunch of people there decided that they wanted to send me a Kampachi to try a variety of preparations with – mostly cooked.

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Clam Linguine

April 17 th 2008

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Blimey.. A bit of a posting week this one.

So, clam linguine. I reckon pretty much everyone has eaten some form of this dish, somewhere. Clams and pasta, in a wine broth. To be honest, there isn’t really much there that can go wrong!!

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Skewered

April 14 th 2008

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It’s been a pretty bloody great weekend to be honest. Yep, I am back on saying bloody. A post isn’t quite the same without it.

We spent most of yesterday outside, goofing around with Drake (16month old son) – it was the first really nice day of the year, and it was fantastic. Thinking of course, that the whole weekend would be that way, I decided that I would grill a variety of skewers today.

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Pan seared True cod, fiddleheads, fava’s, peas and asparagus, olive tapenade

April 8 th 2008

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“You say bloody hell a lot in your blog posts” said my father in a recent IM conversation with me. “Well, it is better than saying f***, I suppose” was the reply.. something I generally wouldn’t say to his face! He is a bright bloke, with an annoyingly large vocabulary – I haven’t often heard him swear, but when he did it would normally be some pretty minor words.

So, I am going to try and make it through this whole blog post without saying bloody hell, or any other swear word for that matter.

This is going to be tough, because this really sodding tasty. (sodding doesn’t count, right?)

Fiddleheads, fava beans, fresh shelled peas and asparagus are all sauteed in some butter and oil, with slices of garlic. The addition of basil right at the end really lightens the dish, and kicks it forwards towards the sun of summer.

The last week I have been thinking a bit about really light, clean, crisp flavors, but still with a little earthiness.

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Salmon, crispy salmon skin, purple potatoes and a great herb dijon broth

April 3 rd 2008

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Bloody hell, Spring has finally come. About time if you ask me. Today has been non-stop sunshine, which makes me even happier since I was working from home today. Since Drake was born I skip the office on a Wednesday and work from home instead. I am lucky enough to have a job that allows me to do that, and also thankful that I have the self motivation to actually get work done, especially on a day like this!

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Lunch: Spring Rolls three ways

March 24 th 2008

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Just for fun one night (haha) started to add up what we spend on food in a month. This included grocery shopping, and eating out. It was bloody ridiculous. I am not going to tell you the final amount, but my guess was so far off it wasn’t funny.

The crappy thing is that quite a bit of the cash went on rubbish lunches in the culinary wasteland of Bellevue. We work out that way (we work together.. how cute), and the options for lunch in Bellevue is pretty terrible, unless you have a decent amount of cash in your pocket. The best cheap place we have found is What the Pho, however that still comes out at nearly $20 for lunch if we don’t split. The pho tastes a touch salty too, so I know the sodium levels are crazy in it. If we were loaded with cash, we would eat at Flo’s (great sushi in Bellevue) every day. But we aren’t, so we can’t.

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WFD: Pan seared scallops, roasted beets, Russian kale, horseradish emulsion. Not forgetting a side of great rosemary roasted potatoes

March 11 th 2008

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I get impatient for new seasons. Spring is almost here (technically it starts next week), but if you ask me, we are in Spring. The weather has got a wee bit better, the days seem longer. Season changes are always exciting as a cook. Each visit to the farmers market yields new finds , and new ideas for recipes.

Of course, I want all of the great spring produce now, and that isn’t going to happen! I wanted to create something spring-like, but which still had winter undertones.

A lot of this actually just comes down to presentation. If the plating is a little more delicate then it hints towards the freshness of spring and summer.

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WFD: Spice rubbed Sturgeon, roasted parsnips and sauteed dino kale. Oh, and not forgetting one rather spicy boy

March 6 th 2008

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I wasn’t sure whether to post this one or not. I rather quickly decided to take photos, and didn’t have any kind of lighting setup, or any idea about a game-plan for photographing. Yep, it is true, now-a-days when I am going to photograph a recipe, I haul a light, bounce sheets, and sometimes my laptop into the kitchen, and make a few notes about what I want to shoot, and even do some rather bad drawings.

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WFD: Steamed Mussels, Baguette with Olive Tapenade

February 27 th 2008

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OK. I know I keep saying this, but… BLOODY HELL. I really missed simple steamed mussels with shallots, white wine and thyme. Before Danika was preggers with Drake we would eat steamed mussels at least once a week. For some reason (it was logical then..) Danika stopped eating them when she was carrying Drake. Well, 9 months later we somewhat forgot about them. Drake is now 14 months old, and we have really just started to eat them again.

Blimey, did we miss them. And who wouldn’t? These little darlings are comfort food at its finest. Dead simple to cook, takes no time, and involves seafood, wine and butter. What is there not to love? Pair this with a great crusty French bread, and some awesome home made olive tapenade, and you have a diamond of an evening.

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WFD: Sake Kasu Black Cod, Brussels and Shitake, soy/ginger reduction, parsnip crisps

February 6 th 2008

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This was a little bit of a spur of the moment thing. When I was buying seafood for the Bouillabaisse a couple of days ago at Mutual Fish I also decided to pickup some Sake Kasu Black Cod. If you are in Seattle I really recommend this place (as any reader of this blog will know). The seafood is amazing, and the staff match it. A couple of guys normally serve me, and they are honestly the friendliest most helpful people I have ever met. As I am buying the fish, one of them is entertaining Drake by picking out live lobster and crab, and showing them to him (with Danika holding him..) Meanwhile the other guy is talking through everything new that they have in since the last visit.

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