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  • Recipe - Baking

    Cinnamon Swirl Raisin Bread

    December 28th

    Cinnamon Swirl Raisin Bread

    Cinnamon Swirl Raisin Bread 5 cups (625g or 22oz) cups plain flour 1½ teaspoons instant dried yeast ¼ cup (40g or 1½oz) dry milk powder 2½ teaspoon (15g or ½oz) fine sea salt 400ml (400g or 14floz) lukewarm water 2 tablespoons honey ½ cup (130g or 4½oz) unsalted butter, melted extra plain flour for kneading In a large mixing bowl mix together the flour, yeast and milk powder. Sprinkle on the salt and gently mix together. Add the water, honey and butter. Gently mix everything together with your hands or a wooden spoon. When it all starts coming together place the dough on a floured counter top and knead until the dough becomes smooth and elastic, approx 10-15 minutes - try your best to use the least amount of extra flour and possible.

  • Recipe - Savoury

    Bo Bia – Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Chinese Sausage, Jicama and Egg

    February 9th

    Bo Bia – Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Chinese Sausage, Jicama and Egg

    Bo Bia is a lesser know variant of the famous Goi Cuon (Vietnamese Summer Roll). It is a similar concept but with different filling. I had never heard of this roll until I mistakenly bought some while I was backpacking through Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). I thought I was ordering Goi Cuon from the street vendor but luckily got a bag of this. In my severely broken Vietnamese I asked the vendor for the ingredients. However, there was one ingredient that I did not understand. It wasn't until my arrival home and some rifling through cookbooks that I realised it was jicama (yam bean). This peculiar vegetable is best described as a cross between apple, radish and water chestnut. It can be eaten raw and is prized for its crisp, clean taste. It also remains crisp if cooked.…

  • Recipe - Savoury

    Canh Chua Tôm – Vietnamese Sour Soup with Prawn

    January 22nd

    Canh Chua Tôm – Vietnamese Sour Soup with Prawn

    Herbs are a tricky ingredient. They can make or break a dish. Too little and the dish is bland and boring. Too much and it's like your eating the entire contents of your granny's medicine cabinet. It is with this reason that I absolutely refuse to buy my herbs from supermarkets. They are more than likely incubated in hothouses and can be fed with a host of unsavoury pesticides. They are often bland and twice the size that they should be. I want my herbs to be burgeoning in the full blaze of the sun and their roots soaked with rainwater. Therefore I know that the flavour that graces my dishes are what they intended to be... natural. Here in this refreshing soup from Vietnam, I made sure that the herbs used were grown in more natural conditions. It is…

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