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Weekend Cooking: Roasted Turkey Legs
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So a few frozen turkey legs mysteriously ended up in my shopping cart at Tesco, so I decided to make something a little different for dinner tonight. The drumsticks were a rather big, so they took a bit longer to cook than I had originally planned. All in all they turned out quite tasty;…
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Weekend Cooking: Roasted Herb Butter Parmesan Shrimp
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One of Rudy’s colleagues went back to Kota Kinabalu over Christmas break, and she was very kind to help us get some amazing seafood her hometown is famed for. We received 2 kilos of the biggest shrimp I’ve ever seen (10 to 12 a kilogram, aptly described as “extra colossal”), and I really wanted…
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GobbleFest 2015: Roast Turkey
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I’ve been meaning to try roasting my own turkey for a while now. At our last GobbleFest I only made the sides and we bought our turkey from Turkey Point Cafe, which has since closed shop. The years after that there were issues getting halal turkey, and there was one year when all the…
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GobbleFest 2015: Classic Sausage Stuffing
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Since turkey is conventionally served with stuffing… well, here we are. I don’t really know what “good” stuffing is supposed to taste like, or what the texture is supposed to be, but I’m told it is supposed to have a pudding-like texture. This recipe definitely had a soft texture, very much like a savoury…
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Weekend Cooking: Kak’mbang’s Nasi Minyak with Chicken Korma
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Those who have had the privilege of tasting Kak’mbang’s cooking know that she’s a really good cook, so I am making it a personal mission to document her amazing recipes and to photograph her in action. This is something that is surprisingly difficult, because she’s always done cooking by the time I get home from…
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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…