Confit June 9, 2018
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On Monday 4th June, Pam hosted a recipe club on the theme of confit. Together with Jacinta, they showed off different types of confit style cooking.
Entre
To begin, Jacinta served us a slow-cooked tomato with feta and pesto.
Main
Pam followed with savoury dishes: a confit pork-belly, radish and apple salad, a white bean salad with confit garlic, and confit vegetables including fennel, carrot and beetroot.
Dessert
We finished with Jacinta’s lemon tart and orange config, and Pam’s confit apple and anzac biscuit with hazelnut icecream.
Nightshades June 9, 2018
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On Monday 7th May, Franca hosted the Nightshades dinner and served up dishes together with Laura.
Entre
Franca began the meal with roast chilli and bacon crumb.
Mains
Main course included an incredible moussaka and some other dishes I unfortunately can’t remember.
Dessert
Laura finished the meal with two desserts: a chilli chocolate mousse and a creme cheese cupcake.
Commonwealth Games June 9, 2018
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For Monday 9th April, the Commonwealth Games was in progress up on the Gold Coast, so it seemed like a suitable theme to celebrate Australia and the other countries of the Commonwealth. Jacinta hosted, and cooked the savoury dishes, with Andrew providing the sweet ones.
Drink
Jacinta got us in the green and gold mood with a pineapple mojito.
Entré
We began the meal with a not-so-traditional green and gold damper.
Main
Jacinta continued the theme with a vegemite meat pie served with green and gold vegetables, specifically peas with pancetta and bocconcini, and roast carrots, pumpkin and parsnip.
Dessert
To finish, Andrew served a matcha roll cake with blueberries (the colours green, white, and blue for the Sierra Leone flag) and a Maltese almond and chocolate pie made with Maltese rusks (with white and red being the colours of the Maltese flag).
West African June 9, 2018
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On Monday 5th March, Pam hosted a dinner themed on West African food, cooking together with Kerri.
Drink
The meal was complemented with a striking drink called Zobo (hibiscus tea) from Nigeria.
Main
The savoury dishes were roasted peppers oxtail stew (Nigeria), mafe (West Africa), jollof rice with chicken (Ghana), with fried plantains.
Dessert
To conclude, we had some sweet Sierra Leone morsels: kanya / peanut bites and akaras / banana fritters.
Melbourne Recipe Club 