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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Father’s Day is just around the corner....



It’s Father’s Day on Sunday, and I relate my dad to great meals. And, if you haven't picked up a gift for your foodie father yet....why not try this book on special for for Father's Day $19.95 Now $15.00 Women's weekly 4 Ingredients



Try this recipe from Gwyneth Paltrow's new cook book  My Father's Daughter, Bruce Paltrow’s World Famous Pancakes, which make for a wonderful Father’s Day brunch.





Bruce Paltrow’s World Famous Pancakes


Yield: 3 dozen 5-inch pancakes

Active Preparation Time: 20 minutes

Total Preparation Time: 20 minutes + overnight resting

  • 3 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 tablespoon plus 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons fine salt
  • 3 cups buttermilk
  • 6 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled, plus more butter for cooking
  • 6 organic large eggs
  • Up to 1 cup milk, as needed to thin batter
  • Real Vermont maple syrup, warmed

Whisk the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Whisk together the buttermilk, butter and eggs together in another bowl. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ones whisking just enough to combine (small lumps are okay). Let the batter sit, covered, overnight. The next morning, heat up your griddle or favorite nonstick pan and slick it with a little butter. Add enough milk to the batter to thin it to the right consistency—the thicker the batter, the thicker and heavier your pancakes; the thinner the batter, the more delicate your pancakes—neither is wrong. Cook the pancakes on the griddle, flipping them after bubbles appear on the surface of the uncooked side. Let cook 2-3 minutes more, then remove, and eat with lots of warm maple syrup.




 From Gwyneth Paltrow
http://goop.com/

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

COFFEE + CREAM: Must be seen's this Spring...

 
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Foodie Tuesday....Lamb Shoulder Roast tonight?


We all love a quick and easy dinner, but Karen Martini must be the master! Well in my house anyway!  Impress the family with this beauty - rated as the BEST MEAL I've ever served up at home....

Slow Roasted Lamb Shoulder with Pears and Cumin
Ingredients
2 brown onions, skin off and sliced into rounds
1 lamb shoulder (bone in) semi cut into portions (ask your butcher to do this)
2 tblsp cumin seeds
2 tblsp black peppercorns
5 cloves of garlic
2 tblsp flaked salt
1 tblsp olive oil
7 sprigs of tyme - leaves only
4 buerre bosc pears - skin on and cut in half
3 tblsp raw sugar
2 tblsp red wine vinegar

Method
Preheat the oven 160C fan forced or 180C conventional
Place onion in base of a heavy ovenproof dish
Trim and slightly score top of lamb
Crush cumin and peppercorns with mortar and pestle, then add garlic and salt. Crush paste and add oil. 
Smother over lamb, rubbing between bones as well. Place lamb on top of onions, scatter with thyme and add pear halves. Sprinkle with sugar and vinegar and pour in 80ml of water.

Cover dish with a double layer of foil and roast in oven for 4 hours, then remove foil and skim some of the fat. Return lamb to the oven and raise temperature to 180C fan forced. Baste lamb a little and cook for another 35 minutes or until golden brown.

Serve with silver beet sprinkled with pomegranate, lemon and feta and almond cous cous.

Just delicious!

Courtesy of :
Karen Martini from Sunday Age, August 7 2011

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Rainy day pick me ups

 
 A dreary rainy day in Melbourne today.....and our thought are turning to Spring and our new home wares lines

Gorgeous Vintage gifts with a story!  Recycled "Vermont Country Milk" bottles. 
Great for the dinner table as water bottles    More
How wonderful are these. Bobbins from a by gone era. Throw in a basket as a grouping or fantastic as rustic candle stick set!

Perhaps sipping on Veuve Clicquot Brut NV champagne and toasting marshmallows by the fire would be the pick of the day........More


Only in the best wellies you can find... at the Thredbo Vogue Verve promotion


Dreaming of snow this weekend.....


Monday, July 25, 2011

What's your favorite handbag?


Love your handbags? Tell us how much...
 I would love to own this Simon Carrell  beauty...still saving at 1500.00UK pounds!


As Sarah Jessica Parker proves...the natural look is in all the time 

 

I just can't go past my gorgeous soft Italian cow hide natural colored shoulder bag! 
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Foodie Tuesday Spanish Scallops & Chorizo by Nigella Lawson

Are you a fan of scallops with bacon, and scallops with chilli? Then this combination of the two, using chorizo - the sausages, not the salami - to ooze its lovely paprika-hot orange oil over the sweet, white scallops is a winner.   Another recipe inspired by Spain, this week from kitchen of Nigella. 
It's quicker than the speed of light to make and quite as dazzling.

 Scallops & chorizo

 Ingredients

  • 110g chorizo sausage
  • 400g small scallops (halve them to make 2 thinner discs if they are very fat)
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 4 x 15ml tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Method


Serves: 4 as a main course, 8 appetiser

  1. Slice the chorizo into rounds no thicker than 3mm.
  2. Heat a heavy-based pan on the hob and, when hot, dry-fry the chorizo round until crisped on either side (the chorizo will give out plenty of its own oil); this should take no more than 2 minutes.
  3. Remove the chorizo to a bowl and fry the scallops in the chorizo-oil for about 1 minute a side.
  4. Return the chorizo to the pan with the scallops, add the lemon juice and let bubble for a few seconds before arranging on a serving plate and sprinkling with lots of parsley.


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