Poh's Kitchen

7.9
2010

Poh loves to cook and try out new things but as she says, "I love to experiment but you have to know the rules before you can bend them." So to help with the rules, Poh invites acclaimed chefs to cook with her in her kitchen.

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Episode 33 : Darwin with Jacko Angeles
October. 06,2010
Tonight Poh is back in Darwin to; soak up the sun, enjoy stunning fresh seafood and bask in the company of great friends. Join Poh, Jacko and Elton as they fish for sand whiting, track down pearl meat and introduce us to some favourite local recipes. For Poh there is no better way to get a feel for a place than through the eyes of locals, and in Darwin she was lucky enough to have the company of a co-worker from Adelaide ABC, Elton, who grew up in the territory. Not only was Elton able to show Poh the lie of the land but he introduced her to highly regarded local cook, Geoffrey Angeles, better known as Jacko. Jacko shows Poh and Elton how to catch and cook at one of his favourite fish, the local sand whiting. The fish is lightly fried in peanut oil to crispy perfection with the tail left on as the ultimate crisp treat. To accompany the fish Poh makes a fresh, tangy Thai style salsa with a hit of citrus provided by the beautiful local torch ginger. For the next seafood sensation on the menu Poh and Elton fly east to the pristine waters of the Coburg peninsula to source one of the seas’ great delicacies, pearl meat. This by-product from pearl farming is delicate and sweet and Jacko demonstrates how to keep the meat the hero of the dish by marinating it lightly in an Asian style sauce, giving the meat no more than a quick sear and using a delicate pink grapefruit for accompaniment. The flavours are subtle, the texture firm but delicate and the pearl meat definitely has its say on the plate. The final dish Jacko introduces Poh to is a Darwin family favourite, Numus. Numus is a raw fish dish where the fish is pickled using vinegar and lemon and enhanced with palm sugar, chilli, soy and garlic. Versions of the dish can be found right throughout the top end of Australia but the common factor is the use of a firm white flesh fish. Jacko’s preferred fish is Queen fish but tonight he uses one that more people around Australia would be able to find, Trevally. The pickled fish is silky, tangy and unbelievably “moreish”. It can be eaten as an accompaniment or a snack.
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Episode 25 : Kuih Koci, Sour Orange Curry, Crispy Fish Salad
August. 11,2010
In her kitchen this week, Poh's guest is Martin Boetz. Born in Germany, Martin is now the Executive Chef of two restaurants, one in Melbourne and the other in Sydney. Martin began his cooking career in a western kitchen but all that changed once he had eaten at David Thompson's famous Darley Street Thai restaurant. Martin began working with David, going on to create his own take on the cuisine. Martin's food has been described as 'a singular blend of Thai and modern Australian food' and his restaurants are both popular and universally acclaimed. Martin loves Thai food because he says it makes him 'feel good' and, for him, it's all about traditional Thai recipes cooked with the best of Australian ingredients. Fascinated by the balance of the sweet, the sour and the salty in Thai food Martin cooks two dishes which are all about balance and texture. His Orange Sour Curry is a curry where the paste is cooked off in stock with added vegetables and salmon. This is an interesting and easy curry and well suited to the home cook. Martin's other dish, a Crispy Fish Salad, is also interesting in that flathead is dried, pulverised and rained into hot oil to create fish with incredible crunch and crispness, the fish is then served with a beautiful Thai salad. To complement Martin's dishes Poh cooks a coconut based Malaysian dessert which is shaped and cooked in banana leaf and is called Kuih Koci.
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Episode 24 : More Meat with the Butcher Boys
August. 04,2010
Tonight's episode is definitely one for the meat lovers. Poh offers her service as apprentice to butchers, Jason and Bill and in the kitchen Poh and the boys demonstrate how one cut of meat can produce two very different dishes. Growing up in a Chinese household Poh wasn't exposed to cooking with large pieces of meat but as someone keen to develop her cooking skills in a country that produces great meat she is determined to learn more. And who better to teach her that a couple of men who admit to being "born to be butchers". Jason Bradley and Bill Smith have had a shop together for eleven years and were more than happy to take Poh on as an apprentice for a day. After delving into a bit of dicing Poh proved she was a dab hand at customer service and discovered how the time honoured tradition of fritz giving is at the heart of good butchery. In the kitchen Poh tackles her first roast. The leg of lamb is marinated with mustard and infused with rosemary and garlic before being beautifully roasted. A braised cabbage dish provides tang to cut through the richness of the meat and Kipfler potatoes "smashed" and baked with butter give an added crunch. Poh also makes traditional gravy using the pan juices from the roast, stock and red wine. It's a beautiful warming winter dish. The butchers do what butchers do so well by changing the way we look at cuts of meat. They take a leg of lamb, just a Poh used in her roast, and then bone and butterfly the leg before marinating it in a Greek style marinade using fresh Greek oregano and then pan frying and serving with lots of garlicky yoghurt as delicious Greek Yiros. Bill then cooks up two different steak cuts. Poh finds them equally tasty and equally tender, a real eye opener given that one cut is twice the price of the other. Yet one more reason why getting advice from a good butcher can really pay off.
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Episode 18 : Simply Italian with Antonio Carluccio
June. 23,2010
Antonio Carluccio, the Godfather of Italian cuisine, is incredibly inquisitive, loves vibrant colours, has a ready smile, a great appetite for a good joke and a home spun passion for simple food. Tonight he and Poh crumb lamb cutlets and bake pears using his philosophy of MOF MOF - Maximum Of Flavour, Minimum Of Fuss. Tasting Australia is one of the largest food festivals in Australia and is held annually in Poh's home state South Australia. This year Poh enjoys the privilege of being part of the festival and takes the opportunity to borrow one of its main attractions, Italian food legend, Antonio Carluccio. In the kitchen Antonio demonstrates quintessential Italian peasant cuisine. His first dish is beautiful lamb cutlets cut and stuffed with cheese, Parma ham and sage and then crumbed and pan fried. They are moist and pink with a beautiful hint of saltiness and of lovely delicate flavours imparted by the cheese and sage. Antonio serves the cutlets with a simple, delicious salad of green beans and zucchini which are cooked until just soft then tossed with mint, lemon, oil, salt and garlic. Again simple flavours perfectly combined for an exquisite result. Poh is well aware of Antonio's love of mushrooms and manages to intrigue and surprise Antonio with a dish called "Buddhist's Delight" which includes many varieties of mushrooms that Antonio is familiar with as well as some ingredients he has never seen before. The main feature of the dish is an ingredient called "mock meat" which is essentially wheat gluten. When the gluten is deep fried and braised with the mushrooms the texture mimics meat and soaks up the flavours of the broth. The broth itself is very delicately flavoured with ginger and a slight saltiness from fermented bean curd and with many different mushroom from enoki to King Oyster and Cloud Ear it is a dish that is very much about texture.
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