I’ve just realised there is a shocking lack of lamb in my list of ingredients in these recipes. Isn’t this one of the most traditional Australian BBQ meats? To make up for that, here is an extremely technical and complicated lamb roast recipe. I jest, it was actually very easy to cook but I pulled … Continue reading — Smoked Lamb Roast —
So you’ve read Part I – the cheating pastrami. But how do we make one from scratch? Read on. Its an additional step to the process but yields a milder more well rounded pastrami. Quite how authentic it is I don’t know, I’ll have to get the New York and try one one day. This … Continue reading Pastrami Part II
One meat I’m seeing more and more at trendy food outlets around Perth is the good old New York style pastrami. Usually served by way to the classic Ruben sandwich. Now, this isn’t a style of meat that most home cooks would attempt as it is a fairly long process (see Part II) . However, … Continue reading Pastrami Part I
One of the dilemas I face as an aspiring gourmound and provider of fine cooked meats to the dinner table, is how to manage a smoked steak or roast mid week. Sure, you can do a long fired cook on the weekend or if you really push it you can manage it on those long … Continue reading Reverse Smoked Beef Fillet
Its winter, cold wet and miserable outside – this screams the need for comfort food. Nicely spiced pulled pork on fresh tortillas sounded like a winner to me a few nights ago. This pork leg was given the special treatment and spiced with a cajun rub. It was cooked with 24 hours of Sous Vide … Continue reading Supreme Pulled Pork
If you think of German food you probably conjour up images of mountains of bratwurst and fried potatoes, lashings of saurkraut and red cabbage. One of the other icionic German pub foods is the Kassler chop, an aromatic and smokey tribute to pork. There are some very good German butchers in Perth that carry variations … Continue reading Kassler Chops
Local West Australian salmon has a bad reputation. While it is seen as a good game fish it is not one people chase to put on their plates. It is not known as a good eating fish. The salmon are running (or have been running) this time of year and the beaches are full of … Continue reading Smoked West Australian Salmon
