The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
Our best cucumber salad recipes from around the world include everything from a Japanese style cucumber cabbage salad made with quintessential Japanese ingredients – sesame seeds, roasted seaweed, rice vinegar, Japanese soy, and sesame oil – to a Middle Eastern style salad of crunchy cucumber spears tossed piled onto butter bean purée or hummus if … Read more
Our pearl couscous salad with pomegranate, pistachios and fresh herbs makes a Middle Eastern salad that’s loaded with texture, flavour and aroma. It’s essentially a traditional village salad with the additions of pearl couscous, pomegranate seeds, pistachios and a mix of herbs, but it’s super versatile. Use bulgur or quinoa and whatever nuts or herbs … Read more
These 10 dishes to master to become a better home cook include essential egg dishes – an omelette to help you perfect your pan skills and eggs Benedict to fine-tune egg poaching techniques – savoury classics such as a roast chicken and a traditional stew, Asian favourites (a Thai curry and Chinese special fried rice), … Read more
This Spanish potatoes and peppers recipe makes poor man’s potatoes – or patatas o lo pobre or patatas pobres in Spanish – a deliciously addictive and rustic dish of potatoes, onions and peppers or capsicums fried in extra virgin olive oil and garlic, seasoned with little else but sea salt and ground cracked black pepper, … Read more
This cheese ramen recipe makes cheesy instant ramen noodles, my guilty pleasure when I’m over-worked, over-tired, racing to meet a deadline, and can’t summon the energy to cook. An American-influenced Korean comfort food, these noodles are a favourite of Korean students and I totally understand why. Instead of American burger cheese I use Italian Parmigiano … Read more