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Favourite Feeds – Chicken Tagine

Let’s go Moroccan today. I might have very little experience with Moroccan cuisine restaurant-wise, but whenever I come across a recipe I tend to get very excited. Perhaps it’s the unique ingredient and flavour combinations – having dried fruit in savoury dishes, the heady but well-balanced mix of spices. It has a lot in common with Chinese cuisine in the way they both strive to balance all elements of taste – salty, sweet, sour, hot. The most successful Moroccan-style dish I’ve cooked so far is chicken tagine. I don’t have an actual tagine dish, so I cooked it in a casserole pot. This version uses prunes, almonds and honey as the sweetener. I like to serve it with curried apple couscous. Awesome!

Chicken Tagine

Winter Cooking – Final!

Well, winter’s over, so this is the last dish of the season! I tried baking a mocha friand. It was originally a coffee one but I replaced instant coffee with cocoa powder. After baking it’s dosed with an espresso/sweetened condensed milk concoction, which makes the finished product nice and moist. It could actually do with a touch more sugar, but other than that I was pleased with the result.

Mocha friand

Winter Cooking – Part 7

This is becoming quite a series… Which isn’t over just yet despite the warmer temperatures in Sydney this past week.

I baked this Orange and almond slice for a weekend lunch with some friends. I actually stuffed it up (hadn’t figured out how to cream butter and sugar correctly when it’s freezing in the kitchen), but thankfully the recipe is very forgiving since it tasted gorgeous when drenched in orange syrup and served with a huge dollop of cream.

Orange and almond slice