Home Cooking: Amazing Pork Belly Bites from Jamie’s America

As the day grows shorter and the weather gets colder there are fewer and fewer opportunities to just chill with a beer in one hand, snacks in the other and pumping some chillax in the background. I say we will not enter the Autumn/Winter without a last hurruh! (even though I love winter and drink beer all year round hee hee)

A browse through my latest addition (I heart Jamie ^^!) to my modest little cookbook collection, always ends up with me dreaming about one recipe in particular… the Amazing Pork Cracklings. Just the mere name causes shivers of anticipation through my body and my mouth to salivate uncontrollably. Read the rest of this entry »

El Jannah – Granville, Sydney

*Editors Note: I may or may not have been doing the funky chicken dance during the writeup of this post*

A wise man once said “I am waiting for chicken to approach me to do a commercial… and I’ll do it for free chicken!” and like this guy I love my chicken; especially when it is fresh off the charcoal grill and smells just absolutely tantalizing. How much do I love my chicken? According to Google maps a simple 30km trip is nothing for some crispy and smokey chicken. This chicken craving brought about by posts and tweets of El Jannah chicken and garlic sauce meant a spontaneous trip for Santa, Timofei and myself.

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Beef & Beer Masterclass at Mumu Grill – Crows Nest, Sydney

Mumu Grill Sydney

There are just some partnerships that are undeniably perfect for each other. For me, beef and beer are just one of those partnerships (to all the wine drinkers I say beer > wine :P ) and so when Craig of Mumu Grill teamed up with Dan the beer snob of Beer Snobs I knew something magical was going to happen. Two people, one with a deep passion for cooking organic and sustainable meats to perfection and other with a deep passion for drinking only perfection come together to teach us average Joes how to enjoy what we put in our mouths on a different level.

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