Blog Appétit: Katie Quinn Davies

14th January 2013 | 04:07 AET

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Katie Quinn Davies, the food photographer behind the Sydney blog WhatKatieAte has done what every Instagramming food-obsessivore dreams of: parlay her passion for good food, her signature rustic style and enviable collection of found objects into a cookbook deal. She’s created an exclusive recipe for SBS, perfect for summer entertaining.

"I love entertaining over the summer holidays and take advantage of outdoor eating whenever I can in the great warm weather at this time of the year. Like so many, I love to throw a barbecue for friends and family. When I entertain, I always provide three or four varied salads to pair with a range of marinated barbecued meats and fish. My chargrilled peach and roasted fig salad with prosciutto, creamy blue cheese and walnuts is a flavoursome, textural salad that has always gone down a storm when I serve it at summery get-togethers. It’s also very easy and quick to make, and packed full of sweet, salty and fruity flavours."

View Katie’s recipe for chargrilled peach and roasted fig salad with prosciutto, blue cheese and walnuts here.

ALL ABOUT KATIE

The must-cook recipe on my website is mint and watercress soup with garden peas and pecans, sour cream and prosciutto [view recipe here].
I learnt to cook from myself through experimenting and failing.
My current food obsession is black sesame.
Eating amazing vine tomatoes with aged Balsamic takes me back to Siena.
When I go back to my home town, Dublin, the first thing I eat is Irish cocktail sausages and HP brown sauce.
I can’t wait to go back to New York to eat at WD-50.
My resolution for 2013 is to eat out more at Sydney’s newer restaurants.
Friends always ask me to cook my lamb and salsa verde pizza.
The one thing I can’t eat is oysters.
If I ever met Oprah, I would ask her if she would list my book in her book club.
I always have good extra virgin olive oil in my pantry, free-range eggs in my fridge, baby peas in my freezer.
My most sauce-splattered cookbook is Gordon Ramsay’s Cooking for Friends.
Nugget of cooking wisdom: invest in a cherry pitter.

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29 Jan 2013 01:41 AEST

Liz Posmyk

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Gotta love a cook who has sauce splattered cookbooks!

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