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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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Dinner Club: Parker House Rolls
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For last night’s Dinner Club session, I needed a few good sides to serve with my roast lamb shoulder, and while surfing around the Net I came upon this site which lists out some really good side dish suggestions. Who can resist good dinner rolls, let alone rolls completely coated in butter before baking. I just had…
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Bread Maker Recipe: Banana and Cinnamon Tea Bread
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So we forgot that we had a bunch of delicious pisang emas sitting in the fridge, and when they were finally discovered yesterday they were already beginning to turn black. So, before they became completely inedible, and since I was having the Round Knights over for dinner tonight anyway, I decided to make banana bread. I used my…
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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: Sautéed Mushrooms
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We had friends over at our place yesterday for brunch and a round of Zombicide, so I threw together the standard stuff one might see on a cafe “breakfast platter” – beef bacon, scrambled eggs, sausages, grilled tomatoes, hash browns, and sautéed mushrooms. Merv brought juices, coffee, and bread with cream cheese. So awesome. These mushrooms…