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Gai yang with nam jim jaew dipping sauce, thai pomelo salad, coconut rice. Lichee sorbet with bluberries and Chinese cookies for dessert.
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@Adventurista I’ve seen ground nuts in other Spanish recipes used as a thickener. Ajo blanco soup and romesco sauce come to mind.
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Som Tam with julienned carrot, daikon and pink lady apple as a substitute from green papaya. Happy to finally try to imitate some of the food we ate on our vacation in Thailand at Christmas. Probably a half and half substitution of julienned daikon and granny smith apple would best represent the flavour profile of green…
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Beef rendang pulled out of the freezer from a batch cooked sous vide a month ago. Some extra coconut milk for the hubby who can't handle spice to tone down the curry. Som tam made from julienned daikon, carrot and apple as green papaya is pretty hard to find near me. I was happy to try to cook some of the stuff we ate in…
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Met up with the girls for dim sum in Chinatown.
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Batch cooked Marcella Hazan's bolognese and sausage ragu. For dinner we had some lasagna cupcakes made with the pasta sauces along with roast courgette.
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The easy way to do Mejadra is to skip frying the onion and using ready made store bought deep fried onion. The kind Americans use in Thanksgiving green bean casserole.
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@EpochAhead Mejadra is a fancy rice with lentils recipe but the ratio for water to lentils and rice should be correct. https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/09/mejadra-recipe-yotam-ottolenghi
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Friday we eat out as the hubby finds it makes the weekend feel longer. We went to an Italian small sharing plates place. At the restaurant we had a successfully constructed potato terrine. It tasted like a dry gratin dauphinoise containing a lot more butter than my failed attempt last night. I will try to make this again…
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I use them for coating foods in marinade or batter by shaking them in tupperware type containers. Previously I would have done this in plastic bags (similar to a shake'n bake) but am trying to cut down on single use plastics. For marinades, they are useful because you can turn them upside down periodically so everything…
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Duck confit cooked a few months ago sous vide, pulled out of the freezer and finished in the air fryer with roast carrot and daikon. Failed potato terrine. Sauteed green beans.
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Brisket in a Korean marinade cooked sous vide and browned in the air fryer. Sauteed spinach, beansprout namul, brown rice.
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Went to a basic poke/ramen place and ordered a lot of starters.
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Starter of salad with roast grapes, feta and avocado. Main of gai yang which is Isaan (=NE Thai) BBQ chicken accompanied by mash and frozen peas mixed with blanched snow peas. I will be making the gai yang marinade again. Chicken was cooked in the air fryer. I have been meaning to try out some of the Thai food we tasted on…
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Roast grapes are new discovery for me. Great scattered warm on a green salad with salty cheese. Here with some cubes of feta.
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Reworked leftovers from last night's dinner party.
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@takinitalloff Sorry you didn't like the ajo blanco sauce, but try making a real ajo blanco soup in the summer if you haven't had it before. I tried it first in Andalusia. The first time I made it was from a Claudia Roden cookbook that called for 500g of peeled grapes. My husband loved it and used to beg me to make it. I…
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Friday night is when we normally eat out becaue the hubby thinks it makes the weekend feel longer.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/08/sargento-cheese-recall-listeria/
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Whoops. Here is the main.
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A variation of the viral feta and tomato pasta sauce from tik tok. Replace cherry tomatoes with grapes and use as a spread for toast. I roasted grapes and feta for 12 minutes in the air fryer after a drizzle with olive oil and a sprinkle of rosemary. You can vary the grape treatment dependent on the amount of liquid you…
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A starter of toast and a dip of roasted feta and grapes. Main of miso marinated sea bream and stir fried choi sum.
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Labour intensive breakfast.
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Google “squash gnocchi”. I would choose a recipe that coats them in brown butter and sage.
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We had a fab soft cheddar, plum chutney and treacle digestive dessert at a restaurant.
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So the hubby was struggling getting the printer to work on his new laptop and offered to take me to a fine dining place if I would sort out his computer. Great deal for me. We went to a place that offers a 40% discount on weeknights. My starter of confit carrots with lightly pickled fennel was one of the best vegetable…
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The hubby took me out in return for setting up the printer on his new laptop. Good deal! We went to a fine dining place offering a 40% discount on weeknights.
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Spaghetti carbonara and crudites to dip into leftover taktouka.
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Celeriac soup with chorizo oil as a starter. Main of cheese souffle and salad with roasted grapes and corned beef, which I forgot to serve yesterday. The cheese souffle was a cosmetic fail because I didn't beat the egg whites enough, so the volume of the batter didn't fill the ramekins. It was still a nice airy texture.