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An Elizabeth David recipe - some thoughts
"It is her recipes that I am grateful to have found as they are not traditional and they are not precise" The Simply Luxurious Life...
Oct 17, 2024
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Last night's dinner
'A mashup between a Western steak and a Chinese stir-fry" Marc Matsumoto/No Recipes In an attempt to tick off my 'new' dish for the week,...
Oct 13, 2024
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Bulgogi
"Chef-owned restaurants are the key to growing a cuisine." Hooni Kim/Serious Eats My older son and his family are currently in Korea...
Oct 5, 2024
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A Google doodle - rendang
I now know that this is a Google doodle , and you can browse their collection of doodles at that link. Loved their little humorous digs...
Aug 22, 2024
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A goddess steak
"stories and recipes are like sauce in a pan: they move differently in each telling and in each pair of hands. A recipe is advice, but...
Aug 16, 2023
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Meatloaf - or terrine - or... ?
"meatloaf is just the American name for a very old idea, a way of stretching those expensive scraps of meat a little further by binding...
Jul 6, 2023
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Carne assada or asada?
This is a guru week - a week in which I return to one of my early cooking influencers/teachers for a recipe to try out for dinner. This...
Jun 6, 2023
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Carbonnade Flamande - have I got the right beer?
"It occupies that culinary space that makes it feel like it's both comfort food and a decadent treat." Diversivore I started this...
Aug 4, 2022
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The Bordelaise challenge
"Classic bordelaise sauce, which can transform shoe leather into strip steak, is made with veal stock, demi-glace and time - a lot of...
Jul 20, 2022
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The 4th of July - hamburgers
"don’t let anyone tell you what should and shouldn’t go on your burger!" Nagi - Recipe Tin Eats Last night we were talking about how the...
Jul 4, 2022
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An English last meal
"Feasting is about how you eat as much as it is about what is on your plate. It is rarely about greed or ostentatiousness, large numbers...
May 16, 2022
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Satay sapi - a first recipe
"Inherent in the great tradition of satay is the tendency to tweak—to take a classic recipe and make it your own." James Oseland -...
Nov 5, 2021
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Steak sandwiches
"An item which, at its best, seems to exist in the sublime but which, far too often, falls apart under pressure." Tony Naylor - The...
Sep 4, 2021
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