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I have old college friends from Amsterdam visiting this weekend. Dinner tonight at my place for all of us. Starter of salmon tartaar with beetroot and avocado scooped with microwaved poppadoms. Main of Txuleton steak, roast potatoes and air fried Turkish peppers. Sauces were seaweed and stilton butters, and Peruvian aji…
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I made the low fat Basque burnt cheesecake today and should make some corrections on the recipe I wrote from memory. I use a 6 inch springform pan, not 7 inch. When filling the pan, place it in the air fryer first, then fill from a spouted meauring cup. Trying to lower a cake pan filled with liquid batter into the air…
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I make a low calorie creme brulee but you need a blowtorch for this recipe. Per serving it’s 150 ml milk (skim or 2% is fine), an egg, a tablespoon of Splenda or sugar to taste. Whisk everything together and add a pinch of salt and an optional drop of vanilla essence. Pour into small ramekins. I normally use 500ml of milk…
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I make a low fat Basque burnt cheesecake which is crustless. You can use a lower temperature to make a low fat regular NY cheesecake with a graham cracker crust but the buttery crust adds a lot of calories. Google “burnt basque cheesecake” to see what it should look like and for instructions for lining the springform with…
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Our Muslim neighbours gifted us a meal in celebration of Eid. I guess the next couple of times I bake a focaccia I should gift them an extra one.
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Attempt 3 at the Nobu signature miso marinated black cod recipe using cheaper haddock. Almost perfect but a touch overcooked. Nine minutes in the air fryer and and a pass under the blowtorch. Seven or 8 minutes for lean fish should be perfect next time. This would be easier with expensive black cod which has a high fat…
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A Nobu signature salad but made with baby gem instead of spinach and store bought fried shallot instead of finely shredded fried leek as a starter. Other salad ingredients were truffle oil viniagrette, grated parmesan, and dry miso powder. The Nobu signature miso black code replicated with cheaper haddock and stir fried…
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Lamb shoulder satay following a goat satay recipe. Quick pickles, cucumber salad with store bought Japanese sesame dressing, Thai cabbage and fish sauce stir fry.
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@AmunahSki One of the few applications where I find PB2 a satisfactory low fat replacement for peanut butter is savoury dishes such as satay sauce and West African peanut soup. Its 60 kcal for 2 Tablespoons as opposed to 188 for peanut butter. Try mixing up PB2 with water according to package instructions and diluting your…
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So I had a kitchen accident this morning, I enthusiastically cleared the freezer by tossing all my bone and vegetable scrap bags into a stock pot. I only tasted after simmering a few hours and noted that the stock pot contains chicken bones, pork fond and a couple of fish carcases. Whoops. Any ideas on how to use this…
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Surprise drop in dinner guest on a Monday night. Made extra roast potato, an extra small side of roast cherry tomato and stretched 4 lamb chops and a bag of spinach to three people.
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A standard combination is something sweet with something salty. For example candied seeds (put tablespoon of sugar in a medium high nonstick pan and stir in a handful of pumpkin seeds until the sugar melts and caramelizes—cool in the pan and break into small pieces) with a crumble salty cheese such as feta. Or pears or…
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Second attempt at the Nobu miso black cod signature dish using a cheaper fish. Haddock using a frying pan instead of the air fryer was quite close, but not as pretty as the restaurant version. Will try the air fryer again next time supplemented with the blowtorch if necessary to blacken slightly and caramelise the marinade.
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Had a little time to cook today, being Saturday. Air fryer chicken wings, air fryer roast potatoes, crudites with ranch, lefftover braised red cabbage warmed up with some leftover beetroot.
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Cheese soufflee and the homemade Nobu-style salad but I forgot to add the fried scallion. It was missing a crunchy element. I also tried a recipe for a Nobu-style roast cauliflower marinade in miso/mirin/yuzu but hubby thought it was horrible, mostly because he likes cauliflower boiled to a mush and smothered in cheese…
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Attempt to reproduce Nobu's miso black cod using cod. It got a little overcooked.
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We ate at Nobu last week because hubby was so grateful that I filed his income tax return a couple of months ago he offered to take to any expensive restaurant of my choosing. It took me a while to choose Nobu. Tonight I tried to imitate a signature salad flavoured with truffle oil, dry miso, deep fried shallots and…
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Tuna tartare stack. I used freeze dried miso powder and a little olive oil as a flavouring for the tuna and onion on top. The avocado layer was mixed with mayo, and the beatroot layer mixed with tamarind water. Microwaved poppadoms for scooping.
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Tuna tartare stack (tuna & onion, avocado & mayo, beetroot, pickle and tamarind) scooped up with microwaved poppadoms, followed by clean out the cupboard veggie soup. One of my favourite ways to make a flavourful veggie soup when you don't have stock is to throw in a good dollop of pesto into each bowl. This one was dried…
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Kept dinner very simple with some tomato sauce and turkey meatballs found in the freezer. The braised red cabbage was also found in the freezer from a batch cooking session.
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I can't see Recipes. This is both on the iphone app and my laptop.
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Breakfast of leftover nam prik from last night's dinner party. Whipped up a batch of nam prik goon sod because the leftover dip to vegetable ratio was a little low.
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Thai dinner party for 7 at my place. We started with nam priks. It is customary to only serve one dip, but the hubby thought that my original plan for nam prik makua (eggplant with a lot of roast chilli that I tested out last weekend) would be too demandingly fiery for a lot of people so I also served beginners nam prik…
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Thai beef with garlic and pepper. Cheat's som tam (substitutefd julienned carrot and apple for green papaya). Brown rice.
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A relatively quick meal. I got home at 19:45 from the office. Our rice cooker is slow - the quickest setting is 40 minutes. That was plenty of time to heat up some beef rendang that was batch cooked 2 months ago and defrosted last night. The quick pickled carrots were cut and dumped in brine on Sunday night. Sauteed…
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So my new strategy of turning out quick weeknight meals is not about easier meals but diverting some of the work to weekends and other opportune times. A big batch of meat cappelletti was made a month ago, and they take 2 minutes to cook from frozen. I worked from home today and took 15 minutes in the aftenroon to make…
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My job is forcing me to become an expert in making 20 minute weeknight meals. I got home from the office at 20:00. A piece of topside (I think that's eye of round in the US) was sous vide for two hours, portioned and frozen last week. We defrosted a portion last night and browned it for 15 minutes in the airfryer tonight.…
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Nam prik makua and nam prik gapi made at home. Thai dips served with crudites and griddled mackerel.
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I couldn't resist picking up some exorbitant mangosteen at the Asian supermarket. Delicious though.
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I am throwing a dinner party next weekend and tonight I tried out some recipes for that. Planning to cook Thai. I wanted to try out some new types of Nam Prik, namely Nam Prik Makua and Nam Prik Gapi. The first is eggplant based but quite hot and the second is very hardcore, being primarily flavoured with fermented shrimp…
