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Easy peasy feta cheesy

Published on June 22, 2006 in Cooking videos, Quick and easy, Salads, Vegetarian and Video recipes. 13 Comments


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Sometimes you just need comfort food. I had never pictured that packet of peas in the freezer as anything other than a quick way of padding out the numbers in a meat-and-three-veg meal, or a source of temporary relief for a wrenched ankle.

Recently, though, Canadian friends and Crash Test Kitchen devotees Shel and Christie visited from Edmonton, the place where CTK had its beginnings. We got nattering about food (as we do) and Christie revealed one of her quick and easy comfort cravings: peas and feta.

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It doesn’t sound like it would set the world on fire, but seriously, it goes really well together. Lenny’s addition of crusty garlic toasts makes a meal of it. Continue reading ‘Easy peasy feta cheesy’

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How To Eat An Island

Published on September 6, 2005 in Cooking videos, Desserts and puddings, Pork, Potatoes, Salads, Sauces and Video recipes. 3 Comments

Click here to view the videoWith epicurean delights like maple-smoked sturgeon and salmon, home-made apple cider and excellent local wines on offer, why wouldn’t a quartet of wandering gourmand-wannabes stop by Ile d’Orleans in Quebec?

After a week on the road we picked up our old friends Cristy and Robert (“Speedy” to his mates) in Ontario and whisked them away to the heady delights of French-speaking Canada – cosmopolitan Montreal first, then Quebec City with its old-world charms. Ile d’Orleans hides in the St Lawrence River not far from the capital and is a little rural haven with much to offer a travelling palate.

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Excellent local ingredients also made this a perfect stopover for our next “Canadian Safari” episode of CTK. Continue reading ‘How To Eat An Island’

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The fun rolls on!

Published on April 15, 2005 in Asian/Oriental, Cooking videos, Fish and seafood, Salads and Video recipes. 4 Comments

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Click here to view the small videoWe 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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Don’t come the raw prawn

Published on April 11, 2005 in Asian/Oriental, Cooking videos, Fish and seafood, Quick and easy, Salads and Video recipes. 1 Comment

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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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