What makes wine unique is its wonderful affinity with food. In addition, food and wine work better in good company. For many people, cooking is a chore. For some of us – me for instance – it’s a time when we can be creative, experiment, and do fun stuff that friends and family love.
In this post, we’ll focus more on the food side of things than wine. The reason is simple: we have some easy recipes that we’ve cooked and refined quite a few times. They’re now well-tested, dead easy to follow and assured of success. Give it a go.
What’s Different about our recipes?
These dishes are a long way from the fanciful, foamy and contrived artefacts that smart chefs these days think they have to produce to show how clever they are. They’re also a long way removed from the kinds of dishes you see contestants sweating over on Masterchef, in order to please the smart-arse judges. That kind of cooking is very hard work and unforgiving – one small mistake and the whole thing is ruined.
Our recipes help you create flavoursome dishes that are easy to cook and easy to enjoy, devoid of artifice. They have a big margin for error as they don’t depend on exotic ingredients, split-second timing or fancy techniques. A bonus is that they’re easy to pair with the down-to-earth food-friendly wines we love.
There’s a great fish stew, a lamb shank casserole with attitude, the best Paella down under, great Beef Bourgignon, the world’s best pizza, a Nicoise salad like you’ve never had before, a Cassoulet that leaves the original hang its head in shame, tasty Chicken Peperonata, a wonderful Pork and Fennel Potroast, great Osso Bucco and more. Here’s the full list.
Wine and food pairing
Here are a few posts we’ve written on this subject:
Matching Wine with Food – 2 plus 2 = 5 – a simple guide
Australia is Blessed with the Unpopularity of Riesling – the reason, according to this post, is that most people drink it with the wrong foods
Matching Wine and Food – another simple guide