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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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Breakfast tacos with chorizo salsa
The chorizo is going to carry the team to tasty-good-times town in this recipe so please be sure to procure a sausage of reputable origins and known flavour punch. Also, leaving the salsa ingredients fairly chunky to grill and then chopping them after allows them to get a little more caramelization which in turn allows…
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Garlicky pickled jalapeños
Home made pickled jalapenos are pretty much infinitely better than what you’ll buy at the supermarket. Sure, if you have a back-alley jalapeno dealer who is dishing out an artisan product from old potato sack in his or her shopping trolley, then yeah, you are probably going to be getting a pretty solid product. That…
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Grilled tumeric chicken
Fresh tumeric and kafir lime leaf is truly a beautiful combination. Like peaches and cream, the fat kid and cake, Winston Churchill and his cigar or Luke Skywalker and his sister. I fell in love with the combination pretty quickly after taking up tenure as head chef at a Thai restaurant in the Northern Rivers…
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Smoked brisket pate with the leftover brisket from your weekend cook
This is a little something I came up with just the other day to use a little leftover brisket from the weekend cook. I am never disappointed with a pile of smoked brisket leftovers and I am happy to consume that brisket in a myriad of ways, but however many ways I enjoy eating brisket…
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New school rolled beef roast in the smoker
This is the old school, poor mans rolled beef roast. A piece of meat traditionally cut from the belly and/or lower end of the brisket and rolled for slice-abilty. This is the kind of beef roast my ma would cook up. Except hers would be sans every herb, garlic, spice and probably salt and pepper…
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Really easy barbecued baby snapper with Thai flavours
This is the quick version of “Barbecued baby snapper with Thai flavours”. If you had the time and the inclination you could certainly make your own spice paste from scratch, but using a store-bought paste for this means that you can have it on the table in 20 minutes. This is about the amount of…
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Jalapeno & cheese hotdogs with pickle relish
This is not the humble hotdog I remember from my youth. My memories involve of some kind of bright red sausage shaped thing of undisclosed origin, pulled from a pot of swampy looking, steamy water and then slapped into a piece of white sliced bread (or maybe a warm bun if we were lucky) and…
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