{"id":897,"date":"2013-02-23T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2013-02-23T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T11:38:00","slug":"reines-cooking-adventures-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/23\/reines-cooking-adventures-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Reine’s cooking adventures part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last part of my cooking adventures! My team gave me a techniques cookbook as a going away present so that makes me happy – I love it because techniques are much more valuable than any old recipe.<\/p>\n

Anyway, so in my last weeks of Adelaide here’s some things I’ve whipped up.<\/p>\n

I wanted to have a go at pickling, so I bought some carrots, apple cider vinegar, pickling spice mix, garlic, onions, and some chilli. I mixed this all in various quantities, and added salt and sugar to taste. I don’t think I got it quite right however it was still very tasty.<\/p>\n

I also cut my carrots all different ways in case one was more visually appealing. Plus julienning is SKILL. Then I would also have carrots for some fantastic salad. I love making salad with access to a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables because it makes for incredibly varied salad.<\/p>\n

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This leads on to grilled snapper. I love snapper. The kind I’ve been buying is some red skinned queen snapper fillet thing, I think. I’ve managed to cook it well the two times I’ve played with it, it tastes great.<\/p>\n

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I decided to try making dessert for the first time after visiting some farmer’s markets and finding purple pears. I’m not usually a dessert person, but those purple pears were totally asking to be purple-fied with some red wine poaching. So red wine, cinnamon, vanilla and star anise it was! With a “pomegranate surprise” as I added a few bits of pomegranate into the poaching sauce, though I don’t think it did anything to the colour or flavour.<\/p>\n

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I like this shot cause you see my workspace and that I did the pickling on the same day. And lol, that bottle of wine. Tastes good, but I should use something cheaper for this stuff next time!<\/p>\n

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The amount of mascarpone on display wasn’t enough for both pears, but at the same time two pears is way too rich! I was so full trying to eat all of it as I needed more mascarpone to counter the winey-ness of the pears. It still tasted good and looked amazing.<\/p>\n

Now that I had pickled carrots, I put them on all my salads!<\/p>\n

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And when I was too vingearised by the pickled carrots and\/or couldn’t be bothered putting a lot of effort into thinking about what to cook next, I went back to trusty old tuna tataki style steak with avocado and tomato.<\/p>\n

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I realised that unless I got an entire kingfish, I wouldn’t find a time to make kingfish ceviche as there were never any fillets for sale. So I decided, why not, let’s make ceviche from scratch! So I tried my hand at filleting a whole kingfish, since the fish shop wasn’t able to do it for me. The only experience I’ve had prior to this was just watching Masterchef<\/i> contestants filleting fish, so I was fairly sure I wasn’t going to fare any better. I still missed a lot of the meat but I reckon it was good enough!<\/p>\n

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It took 6 limes to get enough juice to marinate the amount of flesh I got from the fish. I also added some chilli here because I regretted not adding any heat last time.<\/p>\n

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And here are some pretty tomatoes and the salad:\"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

The final mixed result! Presentation-wise, I chose this shot. The first time I did it, I hadn’t prepped enough coriander to garnish and it was missing some chilli decoration. Second time round I remembered that but forgot to toast the corn before serving \ud83d\ude41 So here is just a pretty dish!<\/p>\n

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And here is some lamb, as I have cooked lamb but never found it interesting enough to post:<\/p>\n

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So much cooking!!! And now that I’m back home I no longer have to constantly think about cooking, I can go back to constantly thinking about eating \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last part of my cooking adventures! My team gave me a techniques cookbook as a going away present so that makes me happy – I love it because techniques are much more valuable than any old recipe. Anyway, so in my last weeks of Adelaide here’s some things I’ve whipped up. I wanted to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,110,234,1180,1889],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-awesome-at-cooking","tag-awesome-at-presentation","tag-ceviche","tag-kingfish","tag-tasty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}