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An easy weeknight meal that didn't involve stuff in the freezer, but some sauces we had in the fridge. Air fried wings tossed in some tomato/tamarind sauce, air fryer roast potatoes, crudites dipped in ranch or blue cheese sauce.
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I had a dinner party on the weekend and a guest brought a huge box of Tunisian dates as a hostess gift. How do I use these besides nibbling on them when I want a sweet?
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Quick mid week meal using batch cooked chilli con carne pulled out of the freezer. The rice was also from a batch cooked on the weekend warmed up in the microwave. Aji verde has been in the fridge for two weeks. Air fryer roast courgette was made fresh tonight.
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Beef with black bean sauce, sauteed bok choi and rice.
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The hubby hated salmon mi cuit.
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Dinner party at my place. Starters of dim sum where the turnip cake looked a mess because the texture was too soft to slice into neat squares. Main of gai yang and sides of Thai cabbage with garlic and fish sauce plus a vaguely SE Asian salad made with cucumber, aubergine, cherry tomato and granny smith apple. Dessert was…
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A very quick weeknight dinner after going out for a drink with my new colleagues. Thai garlic pepper chicken. Vietnamese grilled aubergine salad with scallion oil stretched with some tomato we had lying around. Rice
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Pan fried seabream with aji verde made last weekend, sauteed spinach and leftover pickled carrot. Shared siides of smashed new potatoes and cherry tomatoes with ranch.
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Lunch at my desk from the staff canteen of my new job.
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We went out for maki rolls.
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@mjbnj0001 Bolognesee can become an everyday treat if you batch cook triple or quadruple the recipe and freeze in portions. Do use a food processor or cook with a buddy as otherwise peeling and chopping huge quantities of onions and other mirepoix ingredients is no fun. Other than that step making a triple batch is the…
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Another quickie weeknight meal with a little help from batch cooked stuff in the freezer. Chilli con carne from Thomasina Meier's recipe served aji verde. Salad with halved grapes, blue cheese, and chopped candied pepitos and pine nuts, bulgur.
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Like grapes, the gooseberries are going to have a better mouth feel when halved. Probably good substitute anywhere you would use a kiwi. So trifle comes to mind.
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My first is halved on top of salad mixed with slivers or crumbles of salty cheese such as a blue, feta, or parmesan. Second thought is as a topping for pavlova. I make mine lower calorie by filling with no fat yoghurt instead of whipped cream. If ajo blanco is in your repitoire i would use the gooseberries instead of…
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Cheese haul from my order at a Spanish food supplier. Hubby has already finished most of the manchego. Haven't started on the wheel of Valdeon Picos. I normally use blue cheese in salads combined with fruit or candied nuts for offsetting sweetness. I make souffles with blue cheese. Might try a blue cheese dressing for…
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Beef rendang from a batch pulled out of the freezer, carrot acar, brown rice, some leftovers from last night's Chinese takeaway.
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Dry brining is the way to go. https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-dry-brine
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Instant coffee.
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Smoked chicken thinly sliced. I like pairing anything salty such as smoked chicken, smoked salmon, blue cheese, feta with something sweet such as halved grapes (same mouth feel as peeled grapes), sliced pears, peaches or berries. Salad pictured contains feta, candied nuts and halved grapes.
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Another quick weeknight meal. Boeuff estoufade cooked sous vide several weekends ago and stored in the freezer. On defrosting, I thickened the cooking liquid with a roux and added parsley because hubby complained it looked ugly (cooked in red wine). My hack of easy mash (microwave unpeeled potatoes in the microwave, cut in…
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A sfincione recipe with pictures of the crunchy bottom crust I love on focaccia. https://www.seriouseats.com/sfincione-sicilian-new-years-pizza-with-bread
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@mjbnj0001 I had heard that those American deep dish pizza's were descendents of sfinzione, a Sicilian streetfood pizza. I ate a piece at a market one holiday once. https://ouritaliantable.com/sfincione-sicilian-pizza/
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Quick weeknight dinner. Char siu cooked sous vide a few weekends ago, stashed in the freezer and browned tonight in the air fryer. Mushrooms cooked in the air fryer. Braised bok choi. Leftover brown rice pulled out of the freezer and cooked in the microwave. We had some of last night's leftover carottes rapee but that only…
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@mjbnj0001 Any tips on how to get a crisp bottom crust with silicon? I am unhappy with poor bottom browning when I use silicon mats for baking and have relegated mine for praline making. For focaccia I was even dissatisfied with browning on the bottom when I lined my old stainless steel tin with silicon parchment. I like…
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I have a new job and lunch at the new staff canteen is pretty good.
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Shape of the pan doesn’t matter but size will as it affects thickness of the focaccia. If the recipe calls for a 9 x 13 inch tray a round tin 12 inches in diameter has a similar area. But using a nonstick pan will make your life easier. I use a wide fish spatula to lift out my focaccia. I like to bake on a low shelf in the…
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Primo of batch cooked potato gnocchi and leftover meat and tomato sauce pulled out of the freezer. Secondo of pan fried sea bream, aji verde and grated carrot salad.
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Leftover pinhead oatmeal (=steelcut) risotto made with peas and bacon pulled out of the freezer. Side of roast cherry tomatoes.
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And a slice of leftover lowfat cheesecake from last night after dinner.
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Fake air fryer KFC with the Chicago Tribune recipe. Thai pomelo salad, braised bok choi and brown rice.