So simple but so delicious with amazing sauces
Pasta
Fettuccine with smoked salmon and fennel
When cooked the fennel in this dish becomes meltingly tender with a beautiful, soft aniseed flavour
Lasagna traditional
With meat sauce OR goat’s cheese and rocket
Green Linguine with spinach and pine nuts
This dish is beautiful to look at and delightful to eat. Green linguine, roasted pine nuts, spinach. Accompanied with grated parmesan or pecorino cheese
Gnocchi with burnt butter sage
Gnocchi with prawns & roasted sage leaves
Linguine with prawns & vegetables
Pasta with finely sliced & cooked leeks & diced prosciutto
Served with grated Parmesan cheese
Pasta torta
Eggplant,tomato & Parmesan cheese
Pasta with provolone or mozzarella, spinach & roasted red peppers
Penne with tomato, Italian sausage and fennel
Ravioli filled with goats cheese
Served sage butter
Spaghetti with chilli, parsley, Parmesan cheese
Spaghetti with lobster OR fresh water yabbies OR mud crabs
A little garlic and chilli [optional]. So simple but so nice
Tagliatelle
With chicken and mushroom and curry sauce
OR seafood — prawns, scallops, lobster or fish
Noodles
Lemongrass beef on noodles
Beef marinated with lemon grass, oyster and fish sauce, then cooked with red onion,garlic. Tossed with fresh rice noodles, a lovely Vietnamese dish
Grilled fish with fresh rice noodles
Fish marinated in plain yoghurt, fresh pulverised galangal, turmeric, palm sugar and lime juice, then cooked. Sprinkled with fresh herbs
Noodles with Thai flavour
I use bean curd or thin egg noodles for this dish with sliced barbecued pork and/or chicken, and/or prawns, spring onions, slices of omelette
OR Vegetables only such as shitake mushrooms, fine strips of beans, celery, carrot, and capsicum. Diced tofu (optional)
Chinese sesame noodles with eggplant
A combination or sweet and soya and nutty all at once. Soft egg noodles or fresh rice noodles, eggplant and finely sliced shallots. Marinade of sesame and olive oils, light soya sauce, red wine vinegar, a little chilli (optional)
Spiced snapper or orange roughy when in season
With lemon grass and coconut with rice noodles. Coconut milk heated with a little ginger, chilli, kaffir lime leaves, chopped lemon grass, fish stock and lime juice—strained and re-heated to serve with the fish and fresh noodles.
Crunchy vegetable & chicken noodle dish
Rice vermicilli, chicken, carrot, red capsicum,mushrooms,tomato, lime juice and mint leaves. This can served as a fork dish
OR wrapped in small cos or iceberg lettuce leaves. Wombok [Chinese cabbage] another option
Duck noodles