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Weekend Cooking: Roasted Salmon with Mushrooms and Orange
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Saw a few people selling premium quality salmon at Tesco this morning, so I decided to pick up a few fillets, and then searched on-line for a few recipe ideas. This one looked really promising – all those yummy mushrooms – so I gave this a try, tweaking it here and there based on the…
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Dinner Club: Roast Lamb Shoulder
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Last night Rudy and I had the Round Knights over for a long overdue Dinner Club meet. Merv was very kind to help me get the lovely lamb shoulder we roasted for the main course, and boy it was a great dinner with awesome company. The menu last night: Slow-Roasted Lamb Shoulder with Potato and…
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Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Quail Ozzi with Saffron Boiled Eggs
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Found some quails at Tesco recently, and was really curious about them. I remembered that Chef Ammar had a quail recipe in his book, so I decided to grab a bag of ten birds. Making this dish marked a few firsts for me; first time preparing quails, and first time frying breaded stuff in the…
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Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Bukhari Rice with Roasted Chicken
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Happy Ramadan, everyone! Fasting month makes me feel like cooking more, so on this first weekend of Ramadan, I’ve been making dinner two days in a row. Today I wanted to try something new but didn’t want anything too complicated, so finally I chose Chef Ammar’s bukhari rice with roasted chicken. This turned out…
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Weekend Cooking: Roast Leg of Lamb
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While hanging around the frozen meats section at Tesco I spotted a whole stack of frozen lamb legs. It took me quite a few grocery shopping trips after that before I finally picked one up; aside from that one time making lamb Mandy, I’ve never really handled lamb before so I was really curious…
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Weekend Cooking: Smoked Duck Risotto
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So recently Merv managed to score some smoked duck for me (thanks so much, Merv!), so I began hunting for ideas on what the heck to do with them. I had quite a few options, including pasta, pizza, risotto, and gumbo, but I decided to start with risotto, since both using smoked duck and making risotto…
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Weekend Cooking: Roast Duck with Bubble and Squeak and Stir-Fried Vegetables
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For Chinese New Year, Tesco started stocking some frozen duck, so I decided to pick one up and try roasting my own. I ended up trying out a recipe by Jamie Oliver instead of the usual Asian-style roast duck, but the results were really satisfying. Duck meat stays so moist and tender even roasting for…
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Weekend Cooking: Chicken Parmigiana
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Chicken parmigiana was my “usual” during late night binges with friends, at one of the 24-hour diners back in New Haven whose name I am no longer able to recall. Tonight I wanted to try making it for dinner, with the added bonus of being able to use the basil leaves my Mom has in her garden, which…
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Weekend Cooking: English-Style Fish and Chips
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Rudy and I love our red meat, but we do love a good fish with chips. The places we went to for fish and chips don’t always get it right, so I decided to make my own, in search for the perfect recipe. Unfortunately for me, many “perfect” recipes call for beer, but I…
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Weekend Cooking: Baked Chicken Alfredo Pasta
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I had some leftover alfredo sauce in the fridge, and decided to make something simple for dinner. I remembered that I had shared a recipe by Gimme Some Oven on Facebook a few weeks back, and it became my inspiration for dinner tonight. Yummy and light yet very easy to make, this comfort dish is perfect for…