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April 14, 2019 / Cooking

Recent cooking expeditions

The post-chinese-new-year half price duck turned into Gordon Ramsey Crispy Roast Duck. The chinese five spice didn’t penetrate all that well, but it crisped up fairly nicely and was succulent. The intercostal muscle was fantastic from the start anise inside. The extra bits of duck turned into rendered duck fast and I discovered that 100g per …

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March 18, 2019 / Cooking

Pork recipes

Our local Vietnamese butcher has great pork. Slowcooked pork and lemongrass curry Definitately worth doing. In this first time I went heavy on the pumpkin and also added a sweet potato, and it worked well with more vegetables.   I tried pork spare ribs as well, they could have been better, but perhaps this offers …

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February 7, 2019 / Cooking

Parmesan Roasted Brussels Sprouts

I want to try these.

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February 5, 2019 / Cooking

Chinese Lunar New Year Cake

H did some fast talking, and we agreed to make New Year cake.  I used this recipe.  I bought the wrong type of rice flour, but it still worked and was palatable.   I wonder if the different flour would change the consistency, as I had to add a lot of water to get the mix …

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February 5, 2019 / Cooking

Big Crumb Coffee Cake

All Hail Smitten Kitchen.  This was a really great use of Rhubarb.  The only downside was it used 4 (!) mixing bowls.  A special occasion cake for guests, not an everyday cake.  Froze and thawed very well. ‘Big Crumb’ Coffeecake with Rhubarb Adapted from The New York Times 6/6/07 Butter for greasing pan For the rhubarb …

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February 5, 2019 / Cooking

Ginger Snap biscuits

These are awesomely delicious and we should make them again.  They freeze well.  Makes quite a lot, would be excellent for Christmas gift biscuits. 2 1/2 cups (375g) self-raising flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 180g butter 1 cup (200g) …

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February 5, 2019 / Cooking

Rhubarb pudding

A Rhubarb self saucing pudding with chopped rhubarb at the base. Nice idea, very very sweet. Warrants further investigation into a less sugary version for the future. 370g diced fresh or frozen rhubarb 125g plain flour 150g caster sugar 80ml milk 45g butter, melted 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract …

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January 28, 2019 / Cooking

Cooking with tomatoes

One simple thing for Church; using the local Saigon Village’s truss tomatoes discounted for quick sale…. as they were absolutely ready to eat. Fresh tomato with basil pasta. This worked well, I backed off the amount of basalmic (Aldi’s top quality Casa Barelli basalmic turned out to be great). While making a 5x batch for …

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January 9, 2019 / Cooking

Great baked chicken

Adam Liaw’s chicken marylands with modification for H. Replace honey and sriracha chilli sauce simply with sweet chilli sauce. I used soy sauce. The result was excellent when combined with the local butcher marylands. To improve next time, mix less marinade and do not let pools develop when basting. D suggests 5 minutes of grill …

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December 16, 2018 / Cooking

Large salads – Church summer lunch

Both of these worked well, but there was a fair bit of effort in top & tailing the cheap beans, and the quinoa salad was a little fiddly. Green bean, pancetta and chickpea salad – serves 40 with the below From Taste, but with modifications approx. 2.5kg green beans 625g dry chickpeas soaked overnight then …

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