Cooking videos made by real people
Our guest for this instalment of Crash Test Kitchen is our old mate Dave.
Now Dave is a bit of a dark horse, it seems, when it comes to matters of the kitchen. Just recently, after all our years of knowing the lad, he declared that he knew how to make a cheesecake.
And not just your fridge-set cheesecake, mind you – the full-blown baked variety. So Lenny and I found this recipe on the internet, supplied the ingredients and set Dave to work. Continue reading ‘Dave makes a cheesecake’
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We first had “fun rolls” (Vietnamese spring rolls) at The Vietnamese restaurant in Brisbane, where they bring the ingredients to your table and you make the tasty little parcels yourself – sharing a platter with your friends and inevitably getting a good giggle out of someone’s disastrous wrapping efforts. Continue reading ‘The fun rolls on!’
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Chicken breasts, simmered in soy and sake (thats “sak-eh”, i.e. rice wine). It’s a fast, flavoursome and DEAD SIMPLE dish we found in Donna Hay Modern Classics.
Now some people say a lot of Donna’s stuff is style over substance and her exquisitely photographed books are just an excuse for “food porn” (who says it? Okay, wesays it!). But this recipe is a gem. Just a handful of ingredients and none of them terribly esoteric (c’mon, star anise and sake aren’t THAT hard to find!). Continue reading ‘Soy for the “sake” of it’
The supermarket was having a special on frozen jumbo prawns, de-veined and in a split shell. Standing there in the aisle, I had a vague recollection of a vermicelli noodle salad with a chili lime sauce.
We’d made it a few times, so I just grabbed the ingredients I could bring to mind, headed home and threw them at Lenny (who promptly threw them back at me).
This was actually the first cooking video we shot (you can tell by the amount of “Uhh, umm, aah” coming from my mouth – it seems Lenny is the natural presenter out of us two). Continue reading ‘Don’t come the raw prawn’
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Welcome! We’re Len and Waz, a couple of foodies who are not afraid to try something new, different and potentially disastrous in our sparsely equipped kitchen.
What you’ll find here are clips of two normal people attempting new recipes we’ve never tested, as well as some of our old favourites that we’ve tweaked and refined. And it’s all for real. Things go wrong, stuff tastes like crap and, potentially, people get hurt. And we’re not afraid to show it! Continue reading ‘We did it all for the gnocchi!’
How to make Kung Pao Chicken
How to cook with truffles
Let the jelly roll: Swiss roll recipe from Waz’s Nana
How to roast a duck, the slow and tender way
Our roast chicken recipe: hot and fast
No-fuss fish pie
Classic bolognese
Portuguese custard tarts recipe (pasteis de nata)
About the soufflé
One chicken, three ways
Real Belgian fries, with mussels and mayo
Pad thai with two tries
Lamb rack with balsamic mint sauce – recipe
Canada Day Souffle, Part 2
Don’t come the raw prawn