Liana's Restaurant

My wife and I went to see the new Harry Potter movie today and afterwards had lunch at Liana's Restaurant in Parramatta .

I had the Tuscan Mariana Pasta

 

While she had the good ol' Fish & Chips

Karma's fish and chips

Yummy recipe





From Karma's video blog:

A slightly healthier option to a classic meal. Quick, simple, and absolutely delicious!

Ingredients:

I kg of kipfler potatoes
400-500 g of fish fillets (I used snapper)
A few sprigs of thyme and rosemary
5 cloves of garlic
Salt & Pepper
Olive Oil
Lemon to Serve

Place potatoes in a pre-heated oven of 200 degrees celsius for 30 mins. Take out and turn, place fish on top, but back into the oven at 220 degrees Celsius for another 20 mins, or until fish is cooked.

How to make Wiener Schnitzel - the musical

Savory Mince tonight

Got around to making Nicko's savory mince tonight. the results were yummy.

PINEAPPLE FLUMMERY

Here's something for the summer months.

Honey French Toast

This looks good.

Beef stroganoff

Had a go at cooking  Beef Stroganoff tonight . It was delicious. Here's the recipe taken from the back of a can of Campbell's soup.

Ingredents

500 grms beef strips

200 grms mushrooms sliced

1 teaspoon paprika

1 medium onion, sliced

can of condensed cream of mushroom soup

1 tablespoon tomato paste

0il for cooking.

Some sour cream

Method 

In a sausepan heat some oil and cook the beef until brown , about 3 minutes.
Remove the beef and set aside. Throw in the onions and cook until transparent. Add the paprika and the tomato paste and mix. Add the cream of mushroom soup then put back in the beef and mushrooms. Mix well and bring to boil. Simmer for about 40 minutes without the lid stirring occasionally.

Before serving add some sour cream (I used yoghourt instead, a good substitute). Serve with mash, rice or as I did pasta.

Tempura Prawns

Yum

Pizza Puffs

Niko's latest:

Curried Sausages

I made some curried sausages tonight. Turned out great.

Ingredients

500 grams sausages. I used heart friendly lean sausages

1 can peeled tomatos

2 tsp keens Curry

1 onion

1 tsp plain flour

1 beef stock cube

1 cup frozen peas

1/4 cup sultanas

Method

Boil the sausages in water for about 2 minutes. Then drain and set aside.
Slice the onion into rings and  fry in a saucepan with a bit of oil until the onions become transparent. When done pour in the tomatoes and squash them and let them  heat up. Add the sultanas. Mix the curry powder and flour in a cup of cold water and add to saucepan. Put back in the sausages and add enough water to cover sausages. Mix well. Simmer for about 15 minutes.   In the final 5 minutes add the frozen peas.

Traditionally served with potato mash or rice but tonight I had it the Indian way with Naan bread.

Savoury Mince

This looks yummy.

Aussie cooks

An article on some of the Aussie Youtube chefs I follow:

Local lads lift lid on byte-sized barbecues
Rachel Wells
July 3, 2011

Aussie Griller, or Karl Petersen, has joined the growing ranks of Australian men with their own cooking channel on YouTube.

Aussie Griller, or Karl Petersen, has joined the growing ranks of Australian men with their own cooking channel on YouTube. Photo: Craig Sillitoe

Australian men are heating up internet cooking channels.

''ALL right, guys, we've got some awesome winter man food here,'' says Aussie Griller, as he goes about making a 'Man Stew' of beef, bacon, beer and potato on a Weber barbecue.

Aussie Griller, or Karl Petersen as he is otherwise known, is a Melbourne-based customer service worker who last September launched his own cooking channel, specialising in simple man-friendly meals, on YouTube.

In doing so, he joined a growing number of Australian men - most of them amateur cooks - to have launched their own YouTube cooking channels, attracting millions of global viewers.
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''We have definitely noticed a rise in the number of Australian men hosting their own cooking channels,'' says YouTube spokeswoman Kate Mason. ''There are quite a few of them out there now and some of them have got a really significant global audience.''

One of the most popular is Perth-based father of one, Rob Nixon. In 2008, while working as ground staff at Perth Airport, he launched Nicko's Kitchen ''as a bit of a hobby''. Almost three years later he has two more channels, Nicko's Bakery and Nicko's Baby Food, and almost half a million viewers a week.

His channels, which are based around ''simple foods that anyone can make'', are now so popular here and overseas that just over a year ago he quit his job to work on them full-time. He films five cooking shows a week and now makes a living out of it.

''I've always been passionate about my cooking,'' says the 28-year-old, ''so I thought I'd start making a few cooking videos and a few people started watching them and then a few more and then before I knew it this little hobby of mine became a full-time job.''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/local-lads-lift-lid-on-bytesized-barbecues-20110702-1gwiu.html#ixzz1R8DSGFkF