wildschwein

about me

I love cooking. I enjoy organic gardening and finding new ways to use my homegrown produce. I have a good knowledge of a number of regional cuisines, particularly australian, italian, german, american, chinese, indonesian, and japanese foods. I also have an extensive knowledge and experience in vegetarian cuisine. My partner and I absolutely love cooking together, and make a lot of our own jams, pickles, preserved fruit and vegetables, sauces, stocks, dried herbs, and icecream toppings!

Favorite Foods:

Most things that are fresh and flavoursome. I enjoy creating foods which draw on natural flavours like honey, soy, chilli, etc., and making my own stocks, rather than using highly processed flavourings. I enjoy both simple, easy-to-knock-up foods (like honey and mustard on toast, cherry tomato pasta, quiches, and spinach pie) but also enjoy the more complex flavours of asian cuisine, that draw on a variety of different sauces to create the perfect taste. I am not overly concerned with 'high fat' and 'low fat' in dining, and rather just view food as something that nourishes and provides pleasure via taste-factor! Some of my favourites include home-style meals like irish stew, lasagna, stroganoff, apricot chicken, tuna casserole, and the like, as well as rustic asian-style dishes like braised meats and vegetables, sweet and sour pork or chicken, indian curries, thai curries, singapore noodles, mee goreng, and satays. I make a mean thai curry with homegrown pumpkin and kaffir lime leaves. My favourite rice is basmati. I love papadums and prawn crackers as accompaniments. I'm a real sucker for comfort food.

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