Beef on a string or “Boeuf a la ficelle”
I seem to be working my way slowly, and unintentionally, through Leanne Kitchen’s book The Butcher. Tonight I cooked a meal which my other half declared the best meal I had ever cooked, and one …
Year: 2011
Roast leg of lamb with garlic, rosemary and lemon
This is such a simple dish to cook – it takes five minutes to prepare and throw in the oven, and around 3 hours to cook – so you need to be home. Apparently the …
Miss Universe NZ takes meat-packing job
This is a nice story – winner of a beauty pageant packs meat in her spare time – read the whole article on Stuff here: The country’s top beauty queen is temporarily swapping her tiara …
Roast lamb shoulder with cumin
Cumin and lamb is a great combination – almost as compatible as lamb and mint. One of my favourite dishes is a dry lamb dish with cumin and chili – I ate it in Beijing …
Beef Wellington #2
There seem to be many different ways of cooking a Beef Wellington – some use pate around the beef; some use a paste-like mixture of mushroom and herbs with bacon or parma ham wrapped around …
Moorish lamb with raisins
I love lamb, so when I saw a variation of today’s recipe in the Sunday Star Times this morning, and I was looking for something to cook for dinner, I thought – this is it! …
Who is this idiot?
So, my friend Nick sends me a little clip out of an American newspaper – someone from San Francisco – who thinks that by buying meat from a super-market no animals will be harmed. Here’s …
2011 Masterchef NZ winner announced
After 17 challenges and what seemed like many many weeks watching the Sunday show the new New Zealand Masterchef was revealed as Nadia Lim. Nadia leapt to an insurmountable win right from the first challenge …
Lamb shanks in red wine and balsamic vinegar
We are real Masterchef addicts in this household. With Jax Hamilton and Nadia Lim in the running to be ‘New Zealand’s next Masterchef’ there’s great debate as to which of the two will be the …
Malaysian lamb curry
This is supposed to be a goat curry – but it’s hard to find goat at 3.30pm on a Sunday afternoon when you’re looking for a recipe to put up on Meateaters. So, I settled …