Tag: cooking
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Smoky Beery Beef Cheeks: A Simple Guide
Have a read of this recipe, read it again and then tell yourself maybe this could as simple as it seems. Like, mountain folk cousins mating type simple. SMOKY BEERY BEEF CHEEKS 4 beef cheeks, approx 400 – 450 g each, trimmed of silver skin and excess fat1 onion, sliced1 can of whatever beer it…
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Crying Tiger Beef: A Spicy Escape
This is classic “stuck under a cyclone with no power and only howling rain and wind as your soundtrack” eating. Just classic. Sure, the ambiance could be better, but the steak made for a damn tasty escape for a few minutes. I would suggest that you should use as much chilli as you feel comfortable…
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The “a little fancy” cheeseburger
It’s a burger. It should not be exceedingly difficult to make one. I’m pretty sure that’s part of the theory behind it. That and being able to consume your meal sans cutlery. Yeah, I hear you as you move ever more confidently to tell me that there are still peeps out there that did not…
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Christmas spit roasted goose with bacon, cranberry and herb stuffing
So there it was. Christmas. It came as quickly as a teenage boy, and then left feeling just as ashamed. There will be no more fighting through crowds of people, the air will clear of the musty smell of anxiety and defeat, the glow of the fluorescent lights powered by a million trapped Christmas fairies…
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Grilled asparagus (kinda like elote)
So yeah. We were getting about the idea of making something for dinner and we decided it was going to be Mexican themed. There was asparagus to be used and my mind was thinking about elote (Mexican grilled corn), so asparagus elote (sort of) it was. Cooking the asparagus quickly allows the flavour to come…
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Spit roasted duck with stone fruit sauce
A lot of people fear cooking duck which I think is kinda fair enough because it can be a little difficult to cook a good one. A shit one, dry and rubbery, is piss easy for anyone to put on the table, but that perfect duck takes a little more skills and smarts. I’m here…
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Charred cabbage salad with yoghurt dressing
You should not poo-poo the idea of a salad being great. You should definitely not poo-poo the idea of a great cabbage salad. You should really definitely not poo-poo the idea of charring said cabbage for that great salad. Lessgo. CHARRED CABBAGE SALAD WITH YOGHURT DRESSING (for the barbecue table) ½ green cabbage, cut into…
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Nasi goreng with smoked pork belly
Classic Indonesian fried rice – Nasi meaning “rice” and goreng meaning “fried”. Legit linguistics. lessons for y’all right there. I have mentioned before that I have a penchant for all things ricey, but when you head into rice world armed with a fried egg, some smoked pork belly, crispy-airy prawn crackers and a garlicky ginger…
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Smoked lamb shoulder with Middle Eastern sorta garnish
I like lamb. I like lamb a lot. I like lamb enough to write a poem about it. Mary had a little lamb shoulder which she would cook for hours,It cooked until it fell from the bone and its aroma was better than flowers. There’s a brief foray into the world of poetry from me.…
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Venison with black pepper & garlic
I am not Asian and nor have I trained formally in the art of any type of Asian cuisine. My Asian training comes from the streets. It comes from a head-over-heals type love affair with Asian flavours. It comes from eating my way through Chinatowns, Korean precincts, Vietnamese markets and real-life Asian countries. Also, and…
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