Tag: Food & Wine

Wildly different

By Andrea Louise Thomas Photos Yanni Wildgrain head chef, Leo Howard, brings love and imagination to his cooking. His combinations are creative and interesting, yet not too fancy that would alienate the…

Recipe: Ricotta gnocchi

Ricotta gnocchi with fine herb pesto, smoked kipfler potatoes, buffalo mozzarella (Serves 4) Gnocchi dough Ingredients 300g ricotta (hung overnight until dry) 50g grated Parmesan cheese 1 egg yolk 120g 00 (pasta…

HOUSE OF passion

By Andrea Louise Thomas Photos Yanni When owner Francisco Valles, who hails from the Canary Islands, first envisioned his Spanish restaurant, Casa de Playa (which translates to ‘beach house’) he wanted something…

IN THE vines

By Joe Novella Photos Yanni There are many superlatives that could be used when describing young Mornington Peninsula winemaker, Lee Smallman – hard working, creative, adventurous, entrepreneurial, determined, visionary and kind-hearted –…

WORLD class act

By Andrea Louise Thomas Photos Yanni & Supplied In the sleepy little seaside village of Flinders, you’ll find something quite unexpected. Where the Flinders Bakehouse used to be, is an unassuming little…

Southern Korean sensations

By Andrea Louise Thomas Photos Gary Sissons Kevin Oh, executive chef at Geonbae Korean BBQ restaurants in Frankston and Hastings, grew up in Incheon, South Korea. He was in the kitchen of…

Recipe : Silken Tofu stew

Ingredients 70g Silken Tofu 15g Sliced mushrooms 15g Sliced onion 30g Seafood mix 1 x Egg 2 tbsp Comporting pork broth seasoning How to make the comporting pork broth seasoning Chop 1…

Recipe: Chicken Bamiani

Serves 2 Ingredients  500g chicken thigh or breast fillet 1 large brown onion 1 tblspoon crushed garlic ⅓ cup oil 1 tablespoon salt ⅓ cashews (crushed) 1 tblspoon rosemary 1 tblspoon turmeric…

Recipe: Granny’s Pikelets

Ingredients 225g plain flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 tbsp caster sugar 1 cup of milk 1 egg Method Sift the dry ingredients together three times in a medium sized bowl. I…

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