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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…
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Weekend Cooking: Fish Bukhari Rice
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During our last trip to the market, I asked Kak’mbang to pick up some fish for making this dish I was curious about, by Chef Ammar. She took the fish out of the freezer today thinking I was going to make it for dinner, but honestly it almost slipped my mind. When I remembered,…
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Chicken Enchiladas
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The Dinner Club is back, and on this particular night the theme was… Tex Mex! I decided to bring back some old favourites while trying out new recipes, so on the menu was Taco Salad, Chilli Con Carne and Chilli Con Queso, and chicken enchiladas. The main dish of the night was of course the chicken…
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Weekend Cooking: Lamb Mandy With Rice
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I very rarely cook with lamb. The last time I handled lamb was when I made shepherd’s pie a while back, and that was years ago. Recently I went to the wet market in TTDI, and when passing the lamb stall I saw fresh pieces of lamb shoulder hanging on hooks, so I decided to…
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Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken
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My search for the true Perfect Roast Chicken continues, and this time I’m trying out the recipe by Emeril Lagasse. I also surfed article after article trying to solve the dry breast meat problem, and I found an interesting article by Serious Eats which recommends butterflying, or spatchcocking, the chicken. So I decided to use that method to see…
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Beef Kabsah With Basmathi Rice
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I’ve been waiting for Chef Ammar’s spices and recipe book to go mainstream for a very long time, but somehow it never did. His books are not sold in any major bookstore, and his bottled spices are not sold in any major grocer or supermarket. His stuff is only sold online by seemingly home-based…