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California roll temaki, salmon tataki, miso soup.
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Leftovers from last night’s Thai dinner party. A nam prik ong I forgot to photograph yesterday as a starter. Gai yang with dipping sauce and pomelo salad as a main.
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Friends from Edinburgh popped in for dinner. Made gai yang and pomelo salad.
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A favourite lunch to take to work involves quinoa instead of chickpeas. Start with any tasty salad containing protein such as greek salad. Toast cooked quinoa tossed with a little olive oil and salt in the air fryer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Mixing that into your salad adds crunch and makes it more filling.
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Spaghetti with vodka sauce and meatballs pulled out of the freezer. Szechuan aubergine salad and coca cola glazed carrots.
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Chicken satay with the trimmings and sauteed spinach. @mjbnj0001 I am sure that sushi restaurants would have known to use the "polishing" technique for washing Japanese sushi rice. It involves rubbing the rice grains against each other, and pouring off liquid repeatedly until the water runs clear. Shizuo Tsuji warned that…
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@Adventurista I am attempting satay again tonight and made sticky rice for nasi inpit, those Malaysian compressed rice cubes. This time I soaked the sticky rice overnight and ran the default one hour program. Absolutely no scorched/dried areas at the bottom. I have yet to try no soak with the 40 minute program, but the…
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I use a rice cooker. I resisted buying one for many years because I objected to their ugliness but when a Chinese colleague introduced me to the cute Xiaomi model I was smitten. I regularly make brown rice and quinoa in it as well as various types of white rice (basmati, par boiled, sticky, sushi). My batch cooking buddy…
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If you are okay with gluten, seitan can be used just like meat in stir fry recipes. Example recipe in the link. I buy tins of it in the Asian supermarket where it will be known as mock buddhist meat. https://yupitsvegan.com/mongolian-seitan-vegan-beef/
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@Adventurista My mom used to add finely grated potato cooked to a pulp as a thickener for curries if that is something that is a more sympathetic flavour profile than a roux. I tried to a no soak version of the Cantonese sticky rice today on the one hour setting and it was mostly fine. There were a few scorched areas at…
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A monochromatic Germanic dinner. Salt beef pulled out of the freezer from a batch cooked sous vide 2 months ago. Air fried roast daikon and store bought sauerkraut from a jar. My hack for easy mash: prik large potatos with a fork to prevent explosions, microwave 5 or 6 minutes until soft, cut in half and place cut side…
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My favourite Chinese dessert as a kid was Eight Jewel Rice Pudding which I haven't had for over 20 years. We used to order it on festive occasions, because a restaurant sized pudding served 8-12 people. Mom never made it at home. I had been craving it and was happy to discover with the help of google that it is actually…
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@Adventurista, @mjbnj0001 Apologies for being alarmist. As I mentioned earlier, my reference about Japanese produced rice containing talc came from my 1980 first edition of "Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art" by Shizuo Tsuji. It was the first comprehensive Japanese cookbook published in English. I guess that would be…
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Attempt to share the link to the ex dairy cow steak article to bypass the paywall. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/dining/beef-dairy-cows.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n00.Tckt.ePOl6CcxSzqk&smid=url-share
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Steak from ex-dairy cows. More flavourful and sustainable than the grain fed young cows normally used for beef. Glad to see it could be starting to be a trend in the US too. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/dining/beef-dairy-cows.html
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So tonight I had my batch cooking buddy over for dinner. She struggles to cook on weeknights and every 4 weeks we spend a weekend afternoon batch cooking a huge quantity of braised dishes such as bolognese sauce or coq au vin to fill up both our freezers with ready meals. Tonight instead I instructed her how to make an…
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I would replace normal starches in meals such as rice and potatoes with lentils, beans or quinoa.
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I am apparently a little out of practice with cooking. Chicken satay got a bit overcook because I used breasts when the recipe called for thighs and forgot to adjust the cooking time/temperature. Nasi impit turned out okay despite forgetting to line the mold with clingfilm. Satay sauce was good and had no issues. Chinese…
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I haven't done much real cooking since getting home this week after visiting mom. Today I warmed up some celeriac soup I found in the freezer, made when that stuff was cheap in February and just pan fried the garnish of chorizo oil and fried rosemary tonight. Green salad used vinaigrette I still had in the fridge made…
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@Adventurista I think Thai long grain sticky rice is stickier than sushi ice. I use it for desserts such as Thai mango and sticky rice or Chinese eight jewel rice pudding. It’s also my preference for making Malaysian/Indonesian compressed rice cubes that are served with satay.
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@Adventurista I usually use sushi rice and prefer Nishiki brand grown in the US. My information might be out of date as my Japanese cookbook is the Shizuo Tsuji classic from the 80s. There they warn that most Japanese brands dust sushi rice with talc which requires careful and vigorous washing. Nishiki brand was the first…
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Oatmeal risotto with sea bream, a crumble of air fried skin and a drizzle of salsa verde, accompanied with sea bream carpaccio using excess fish in the two fillet packet. I follow the FDA guidelines for freezing fish at low temperature to sterilize supermarket fish for parasites in order to serve fish raw.
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@Veta2018 Your crockery is very pretty.
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A homecooked meal.
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Dinner on the Toronto/Heathrow service of Air Canada in Economy.
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Last nursing home dinner with my mom before returning home to London tomorrow.
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Tomorrow I will be returning to London after visiting mom in Canada. Was planning to visit the supermarket tonight to drag home stuff from childhood I can’t buy in England like strawberry and banana flavoured Jello and a jar of relish. Maybe Cheese Whizz if I can find it in a tube. Any other suggestions?
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Nursing home dinner with mom.
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@mjbnj0001 Savoury peanut sauces for sesame noodles, satay, gado gado and west african soups are applications where I find substituting some of the peanut butter with PB2 tastes acceptable.
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We finally managed to think of dinner early enough to order an alternative meal of shrimp stir fry.