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Continue reading →: NSW: Paddington: Izy.AkiThis is a must try. Presentation, flavours, service, and atmosphere all excellent. Omakase style. Choose your saki cup. Highly recommended to let Aurelian choose matching sake for each dish. Probably won’t get all the ingredients correct, but here goes (I will add more as I remember more). “The Egg” (free…
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Continue reading →: NSW: Hawkesbury River, Mooney Money: Oyster ShedHighly recommended. Menu Seafood Patter Side Salad Pacific Oysters (Natural) Smoked Trout Pate
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Continue reading →: Whole-wheat spaghetti with lemon, basil, and salmonfrom Giada’s Kitchen: New Italian Favorites by Giada De Laurentiis (p100) Tasty and quick! Whole-wheat Spaghetti. (As it was available at the local, I substituted Girolomini spelt spaghetti)
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Continue reading →: Gigli with chickpeas and za’atarfrom Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi (p191) Something simple, reasonably quick, different, and delicious.
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Continue reading →: Giorgio’s risotto with porcini mushroomsfrom A Year at Avoca: A Cookbook (page 167) by Simon Pratt I just made the regular vegetable stock from vegetable scraps collected over the last few weeks (kept in the freezer) and needed to use it, hence this recipe was chosen. I omitted the optional cream (and used more butter and Parmesan) Delicious!
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Continue reading →: Spaghetti with tuna, anchovies, olives and mozzarella (Spaghetti alla Caprese)from The Pasta Bible / Classic Pasta / Greatest Ever Pasta / Cook’s Encyclopedia of Pasta: The Definitive Guide to Choosing, Making Cooking and Enjoying Italian Pasta by Jeni Wright (p116) Simple quick and delicious!
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Continue reading →: Galway Bay mussels with tomatoes and chillifrom A Year at Avoca: A Cookbook by Simon Pratt (p 21) Served with crusty bread. I loved the sauce, but the mussels needed a lot more cooking than the recipe indicated. I should have blanched them in boiling water before adding them to the sauce. (see the method in “Mussels with saffron…
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Continue reading →: Prawns in chilli butter with risoni and herb saladCookidoo / Thermomix recipe. The automated recipe needs fixing. Step 4 … it asked to put the steaming basket in position rather than the Veroma Tray (the prawns were in the Veroma tray and not the steaming basket). Step 5 … cook the risoni for 2min 30 sec results in…
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Continue reading →: Lemongrass, aubergine & Brussels sprout curryfrom Green Kitchen Travels: Vegetarian Food Inspired by Our Adventures by David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl Simple, and flavoursome, but missing and curry heat. Served with black rice. This dish needed more “zing.” The Eggplant and Brussel sprouts needed to be cooked about twice as long as the recipe suggested (unless you are after raw-ish…
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Continue reading →: Red pork curry (Gaeng phed moo)from Foolproof Thai Cookery: Step by Step to Everyone’s Favourite Thai Recipesby Ken Hom It was both quick and easy. It could do with a lot more chilli.
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