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Cullen skink can be put together within 20 minutes.
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Pork loin sous vide on the weekend was tossed in the freezer. On a week night it needs defrosting during the day and air frying for 10 minutes to brown.
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Tapas.
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A very simple meal to put together. Potatoes get pricked to prevent explosions in the microwave and zapped for 5 minutes then dried for 20 minutes in the air fryer on top of the courgettes tossed in olive oil. Around the same time I put lentils on to boil. Fish fillets need 2 minutes skin side down and 1 minute skin side…
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Dinner party at my place. Bruschetta, Galician steak, aji verde, roast potato and spinach, creme brulee.
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Basic Chinese food. Chicken with black bean sauce is something I make so often that it takes no time and no thinking. My mom's brilliant treatment of frozen peas that works well with Chinese food. Peas are stir fried with garlic and a generous dose of salt.
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Had some flavourless but tender cooked brisket due to a burst sous vide bag. Made egg fried rice with that. Side of braised Belgian endive with chopped candied ginger.
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Dinner party at my place. Caesar salad, steak potatoes and courgettes, tinned pear clafoutis with frozen yoghurt we had in the freezer.
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Chicken Caesar was a second leftover roast chicken dinner.
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A leftover roast chicken dinner. Forgot to add the shredded leftover chicken to the avgolemono soup before taking the photo. Greek salad on the side.
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A girlfriend stayed for dinner. It was cool enough to turn on the oven. Roast chicken, roast potatoes and courgettes, aji verde. Dessert was Chinese almond tofu (misnomer whose traditional recipe contains neither almond or tofu).
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Melon and prosciutto followed by penne cacio pepe.
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Melon and prosciutto followed by penne cacio pepe.
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Melon and prosciutto followed by spaghetti aglio olio.
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Air fryer wings tossed in Vietnamese caramel fish sauce, egg fried rice using up leftovers, Korean cabbage salad.
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What set of instructions did you use?
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Leftover chinese warmed up in the microwave, and my attempt to reproduce the cabbage salad at Gyubee Japanese Grill.
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After not cooking for over a week I found meal prep a little stressful tonight. The Di San Xian (Sichuan aubergine, green pepper and potato) were leftovers from the takeaway on the night before we went to Canada which was popped into the freezer and warmed up. I made my standard chicken with black bean sauce. Broccoli…
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I went to Ottawa to see mom who is still in hospital after her fall. Tried the usual ritual lunch with her old neighbour, but Takumi BBQ (Dongbei style tabletop BBQ) was closed! We ended up at Gyubee Japanese BBQ, an all you can eat place her 22 year old son likes. Not a patch on Takumi. Heartbroken.
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Chicken in black bean sauce.
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Spaghetti with mushrooms and some air fried courgette sitting on a pool of feta whipped with yoghurt.
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My too hot to cook strategy has been simple pastas where the sauce is made in the time it takes to boil pasta. Sicilian cherry tomato, orange and tinned tuna pasta with mint and pistachio.
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For those of you who garden and have a glut of courgette, a typical anchovy and zucchini pasta recipe uses a whole zucchini per person.
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Cambodian beef lok lak. This is a very quick dinner if you have the stir fry sauce kept in a squeeze bottle in the fridge. Whenever I need to make lok lak from scratch I make a big batch of the stir fry sauce as it only contains non perishables such as fish sauce, oyster sauce, tamarind or ketchup, sugar. I asked the hubby…
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Cheat's Hainanese Chicken Rice. In a rice cooker use chicken stock instead of water and poach the chicken thighs on top of the rice. You do need to have the trio of traditional sauces: sweet Indonesian soy sauce (store bought), ginger and scallion sauce (we had some on hand in the fridge) and sambal (store bought).…
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A girlfriend came over for dinner and I served the no cook winter meal. When we got in from our shopping trip we started by making an air fryer Dulce de lecce and Phillly cheesecake. Main of sauerkraut stampot made with store bought mash, a few pickles, and defrosted Montreal style smoked meat that we hauled back from…
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Minimal cooking for hot weather. Korean brown rice bowl with pork bulgogi using pre-sliced paper thin meat from the Asian supermarket. My mom’s dependable recipe for frozen peas and edamame stir fried with garlic.
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A great heatwave recipe. Almost no standing over a hot stove. https://stefangourmet.com/2026/07/27/pasta-fagiolini-e-pomodorini-green-bean-pasta/#respond
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https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/784308685-tomato-lentil-salad-with-spicy-tahini?unlocked_article_code=1.1FA.LVb0.Evahl_hcIzmT&smid=share-url
