Ricky Onsman

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I’m not usually a fan of self help books.

Ingredients 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 lemongrass stalk, peeled and sliced 1 cm piece ginger, unpeeled and sliced 3 lime leaves, crushed 1 birdseye chilli, sliced 2 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced 1/4 white onion, diced 1 cup water 1 cup fish stock 60 gm mus…

Ingredients 1 tbsp light soy sauce 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce 2 tbsp Chinese rice wine 1 tsp fish sauce 1 tsp sesame oil a pinch of caster sugar 2 tbsp cornflour 100-125 gm firm white fish, cut into 5 cm chunks salt & pepper 2 tbsp vegetable oil 6-7 cocktail p…

Sometimes, things come together to form an irresistible attraction.

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Glenorchy Boy is one of the most unusual books I’ve ever read.

Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 1/4 brown onion, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped 2 tsp cumin 1/2 tsp chilli flakes 1/2 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp onion powder 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp dried oregano 160gm veal & pork mince 1 tbsp tomato paste 50 ml…

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Ingredients 200 gm chicken breast, cut into thin strips 1 tsp baking soda (aka bi-carb soda) 2 tsp cornflour 1/2 cup water 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce 2 tbsp Chinese rice wine 1 tbsp light soy sauce 2 pinches white pepper 1 tbsp vegetable oil 2 cloves garlic, t…

This post was motivated by a few things that happened to me recently.

IMB Theatre, IPAC, Wollongong, Thursday 1 October 2026 I admit I didn’t have great expectations for this show.

Ingredients 100 gm rump steak, sliced into thin strips 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 tbsp light soy sauce 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce 2 tbsp Chinese rice wine 1/2 tsp white sugar 1/2 tsp sesame oil pinch white pepper 1 tsp cornflour 1/2 cup water 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1…

Continuing to extend my reading experience, The White Castle is my first novel by a Turkish writer.

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I’ve mentioned before that Merrigong Theatre is an entrepreneurial company hosting the best of touring productions from around Australia and overseas.

I know, you’d think I’d have read Pride and Prejudice before now, wouldn’t you?

New favourite cocktail to add to my list.

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Subtitled “Expand Your Market with Design Practices from Google’s Product Inclusion Team”, Building For Everyone by Annie Jean-Baptiste is an excellent, valuable and thoroughly worthwhile addition to the technical library of anyone involved in digital pro…

This post is based on research for a course I developed for the Vispero Tutor training platform.

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Ingredients 1 chicken breast fillet, skinless, boneless salt & pepper 1 small knob butter 2 tbsp olive oil 1 small-medium leek, rinsed, trimmed, and thickly sliced 3 garlic cloves, peeled, thinly sliced 2 tbsp white wine 100 ml chicken stock 1 tsp wholegr…

Ingredients 3 tsp cornflour 2 tsp soy sauce 2 tsp Chinese rice wine pinch salt 1 tsp sugar 4 tsp sesame oil 250 gm pork cutlet, sliced into thin strips 2 tsp vegetable oil 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 1 tsp chilli flakes 2 cm piece of ginger, peeled and…

The new SBS 8 part series, The Airport Chaplain, is one of those series where each episode has a story focus of its own, but there are also recurring story parts and then an overarching story behind the whole thing – all based around Hugo Weaving as Tobias

Since I had some mussels, prawns, and crab meat left over from my Seafood Fried Rice, I thought I’d have a go at a bouillabaisse.

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In my second year at Claremont High School, I was in the first group of boys allowed to take Cookery as a subject.

Ingredients 60 gm white fish, chopped into bite sized pieces 9 cooked cocktail prawns, head, tail and shell removed 6 calamari rings, chopped 2 tbsp cooked crab meat 9 mussels, meat only 1 tbsp fennel, diced 1/2 small carrot, diced 4 green beans, diced 1…