My very good mate Tim Elwin from Urban Food Market and I were on Ready, Steady, Cook today. We had a great time, and I would do it again in a heartbeat! I urge you if you live in Sydney to apply to be in the audience or on the show. So much fun and silliness..
Hello all!
I’ve been a little lax posting in the last few weeks. I’ve just come off the biggest week of my working year, and we’re in the process of buying a house.
Things should return to normal very soon, and if they don’t it’s cause we bought a house!!
Weekend breakfasts. Fresh bread, eggs, coffee. I love the weekends when I actually have time to indulge in these rituals. When I can, I get up to the screams of the neighbour’s small irritating child running down the street outside our bedroom window, and head down to Bourke St Bakery for a plain sourdough. I grab some milk for the other half, and the papers. I get back and make sure there’s enough coffee ground for the both of us. I then start the debate: Boiled eggs? Another botched attempt at poached? Hmm, leftover 1/4 of capsicum, leftover red onion and chilli? Hmm, baked spanish eggs? Yeah.
A bunch of us had been trying to organise a mini food tour of Five Dock by our friend Carmel for ages, and finally the appointed day rolled around. A gorgeously bright and sunny Sydney Winter day all 6 of us met on the main strip on the Great North Road. First stop: Ranieri’s Continental Delicatessen. This bustling, packed to the rafters deli is an Italophile food lovers heaven. Oils, pasta, cheese, canned goods, cold meats, sweets, dried fruit, coffee, you name it, they have it!
We’re welcomed by Joseph Ranieri, 3rd generation of this family business, who gives us a tasting of various cheeses, cold meats and oils. Clockwise from the top, a beautiful hot salami, a chicken unlike I’d never had before, nothing like the supermarket chicken meat I’d had as a child, bresaola with crumbled Parmesan, a squeeze of lemon juice and a drizzle of excellent extra virgin olive oil…I kept coming back for this one! And lastly some Mortadella.
