Author: Villa Tempest

  • Culinary Traditions underpinning the development of Australia’s Chiko Roll

    The Chiko Roll is an iconic Australian fast food item. Essentially it is a savoury pastry roll filled with a meat-vegetable-cereal filling and deep fried. Here we examine the history behind the Chiko Roll and explore the culinary traditions that underpin it development and creation. History There are many sites on the web redistributing various…

  • Lufthansa Cocktail Liqueur, a diy recipe

    What motivates you? For me, it trying to track down or develop a recipe for some obscure, shrouded in mister and time, recipe for some such thing. Today, I present for your consideration my efforts to explore the Lufthansa Cocktail Liqueur. History Developed in 1955 by Mampe for Lufthansa, apparently they developed three bottled products,…

  • The Fascinating History of Waldorf Salad

    Waldorf Salad is an old salad, a fascinating salad, a salad common to my childhood, but why did I wake up yesterday and need to make it, to revisit it and the taste of Waldorf Salad as remembered from my childhood? No-one would have guessed that by the end of the day, I would have immersed…

  • Thoughts on Diet, Dieting and Menu Planning

    When I was a lad, back in the 70’s of last century, I was told that my grandfather had a lifestyle crisis when he was 40. Almost blind, alcoholic, and a size 44 belt (…that’s a 44″ long belt.) After “Studying” Pritikin and Davis (she was his pinup poster girl of diet), he then took control…

  • Kitchen Mixers – I think I’ve finally found the one!

    When I started making pies in Hanoi, several years back, I always wanted a kitchen mixer, something robust enough to be a semi-professional item but couldn’t afford to sling for the Profi models, even the Chinese made commercial ones. So I settled for a Bomann KM 348 CB  [looks exactly like this Clatronic KM 3067 here……

  • The Search Goes On – Egg Batter Dough for Chiko Roll & Corn Jacks

    I’ve previously approached this topic, reporting my trials into finding the secret to the ever elusive method of making the dough wrapper for that well known, loved and maligned, Australian deep fried snack, the Chiko Roll. Much of the history and preparation info is summarized at Cooks Info which is a little more sensible and tempered than some…