Spagettini with lemon, chilli and proscuitto

Another delicious and simple meal from Bill Granger.

Pretty easy really - mix together olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest and chilli.  Let that sit.  Cook the spagettini.  Chop up the proscuitto and cook that, throw in the rocket to wilt, the spagettini to warm through and the olive oil mix over the top!

It even looks very similar to the book.

Greek style pasta

It's like spagetti bolognese with a greek twist!

Lamb mince (which was trickier to find than I had expected).  A butcher offered to grind up some diced lamb but that was way too expensive, so I persevered and eventually found the lamb mince.

Olives, tomatoes, parsley... yum!

Coiled mushroom streudel

Let's see if you can spot the difference between the magazine version

and my version

I bought all the ingredients to make the magazine version but on Wednesday night, after work and going to the gym, I looked at the time and realised that we wouldn't be eating until after 9pm if I made the filling and then baked the filo for 40 minutes.  So I made the filling and turned it into super delicious pasta.  Highly recomended.

Parmesan crusted blue eye

Another successful Bill dinner - just for me (G was away, so he missed out).  A side note, I wouldn't recommend turning grainy bread into breadcrumbs for this dish - that is why there are darker brown spots on the crust!

There are a couple of things that make me sad about this dish.

1. The fish still had scales on it and it ended up being easier to mangle the fish and get the skin off rather than try and get the scales off. 
2. Why doesn't it look as pretty as Bill's???

Breast cancer cupcakes

G had a bake-off to raise funds for breast cancer research a couple of weeks ago and these little beauties came second!

Just my regular vanilla cupcakes, with some choc chips thrown in.  Iced with pink butter cream and pink ribbons!

September, October, November Delicious

The months have been flying by and some of you may be wondering why I haven't mentioned any recipes from September or October Delicious. 

I moved house - but not only house, I moved cities and jobs, and although I redirected my mail I never received the October issue.

During September I wasn't staying in my house, but I was couch (and spare bedroom) surfing.  I never had the groceries for more than one meal ahead, and didn't have access to all my kitchen equipment. So I let September slide...

However, November Delicious really excites me! 

Doesn't that cake just look delicious!  Although, imagine trying to cut it!

Corn fritters and (fish) with olive relish.

I was pretty excited to make these corn fritters, having had the pleasure of eating these in Bill's restaurant in Surry Hills, Sydney.

Strangely, the fritters are in the dinner section of Bill's Food - so I made them for dinner one night and then cooked the other half of the batter for breakfast the next morning (because I really believe these are delicious for breakfast!)

My interpretation of the fritters involved combining them with salmon with olive relish (supposed to be tuna, another recipe from Bill's Food).

The salmon? Well the only tuna available was super amazing sashimi grade tuna which was exorbitantly expennsive - in fact, too expensive to cook so I cooked salmon.

The corn fritters in the fry pan for breakfast the next morning.  I served these with some pan fried tomatoes and herbs.  YUM!