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Topside Beef Roast with Creamy Mushroom Stroganoff Sauce
Topside Beef Roast is an excellent choice for a lean, but tender beef roast. This cut is similar to the silverside, but from the inner thigh muscle rather than the hindquarters . By braising this roast in a broth, we can ensure that it stays nice and juicy while cooking. The sauce also helps keeps the meat tender while concentrating the delicious flavours of mushroom and paprika. A Slightly more traditional take on a Hungarian Style Stroganoff than our Russian inspired Beef Stroganoff Recipe. The Topside Beef Roast is crusted with a thin layer of paprika before roasting. Depending on your preference you can use hot or sweet paprika. Smoked…
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Hearty Beef Stew with Polenta & Mash Topping
This hearty beef stew is the perfect combination of rustic comfort food and refined savoury flavours. Leaning heavily on pantry staples for the seasoning and topping, the heart of this meal is in it’s slowly simmered filling paired with fluffy dumplings that soak up all the delicious sauce. This meal is great to prep in advance and can be completed up to the topping stage to be finished later. Once the stew has cooled, you can spoon on the cooled topping, seal well and freeze up to 3mths or refrigerate if you’re going to finish the cooking in the next two days. It’s a great family gathering dish and pairs…
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One Pot Pork Chop with Carrots, Mash & Gravy
This one pot pork chop meal comes together with minimal hands on preparation and rewards you with a full plate of silky mash, tender carrots, rich gravy and melt-in-your-mouth spiced pork. Thick cut pork chops work best here, ideally around 3/4 to 1 inch thick. Our local butcher sells these for a similar price per kg to the main supermarkets in our area. With thinner supermarket cuts, it’s important to check them carefully for any bone fragments before seasoning. While they won’t cook up quite as juicy and tender as a thicker cut, the meal will still be delicious. Our butcher cuts have a noticeably better flavour and texture and…
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French Onion Potato Bake
Not for the feint of heart, this French Onion Potato Bake is incredibly rich and full of bold onion flavour. A great accompaniment to a fresh, crisp green salad & BBQ meats. It’s intense, but in a good way. The overnight onions should produce plenty of leftovers. There’s ideally enough in the recipe to make two batches of this potato bake, depending on how heavy handed you are with the onions. It can be easy to overpower the whole thing though so it’s best to err on the side of being more cautious in this case. This assembled recipe doesn’t freeze particularly well, but it can be done if you…
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Better than Take-Away: Pepper Beef Stirfry
Pepper Beef Stirfry could be in reference to the Capsicum (Bell Peppers) or the generous dose of Black Pepper in this tasty sauce. A quick, fresh and utterly addictive stirfry that is genuinely better than most take-aways when considering cost, convenience and flavour. While it make take a little bit of time to prepare and measure out the ingredients needed for this dish, it does come together very quickly. Considering the time it takes us to drive to our local shop, place an order, wait and then drive home – the timing is generally comparable. The cost and flavour remains unmatched and this has quickly become a staple in our…
