Hello fellow poets in the kitchen...

It's been a big year!  Hospital food is still lousy...but the chef is back! - thanks to a new cocktail of medications (and blessed APO-DIAZEPAM 5MG TAB)...
It's New Years Eve!  Let's cook!  In about 10 hours I plan to stoke up the webber and cook some wonderful delights and rekindle my culinary passion into 2012!  The final year of the Mayan calendar!  We've picked up some delights from the Halal butcher...I also have some Piquillo Peppers and marinated whole mushrooms in a sweet and sour vinaigrette.  There's some left-over smoked Xmas ham - yeah, I'm thinking wood-fired pizza cooked alongside some lamb, herb and garlic sausage - just wish I had some proper Spanish sangria to wash it down with!  I'm also thinking of marinated kangaroo roasted lightly on the coals while my kitchen companions strum soft guitar chords and await midnight...I promise to post photos of this meager feast!
To all of you out there, have a safe night and a new year of creative prosperity!

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

I no longer use 'heat beads' in my webber - I've adapted to 'charcoal' wedges that I purchase from Bunnings...the flavour goes right through a wood-fired style pizza...not bad for a roast either and I've even laced the charcoals with wafts of fresh rosemary sprigs from the garden!
So, the other night I was inspired to load a pizza with Jamaican, North African and these little yellow 'banana' chillis...it seemed like a good idea at the time - almost disabled two of my dinner guests!!!
It seems the heat of the webber inflamed the chilli mix - which I've heard can happen in a microwave!

So I'm not going to attempt this again - FOOD SHOULD BE ENJOYED - NOT LETHAL!

Prawn and Smoked Salmon Pizza

Grocery Shopping should always be this fun!

'Raconteur Ribs' - if these ribs could talk?!

I slow roasted these beef ribs for almost 5 hours - coated in an array of my hottest chilli, sauces and sour berry! The meat just fell off the bone!

The view from my new office!

Edible Hand Grenade!

I took a big red pepper...carefully hollowed it out with a nice little 'hooked' scalpel and then stuffed it with a 'birds-eye' chilli, oregano, fetta cheese and a wedge of pineapple!  Cooked in an oven for 15 minutes at around 180 degrees...for a nice little touch I topped it off with a sprig of rosemary from the garden!
All it needs in the end is a little dab of olive oil!
Yeah...it explodes!

Poor brother-in-law had an 'edible hand-grenade' experience on Saturday night at 11.30pm...it went off at 4.00am, then again  at 5.00am...