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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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Continue reading →: Pork and cumquatsPork and cumquats from The Cook’s Companion: The Complete Book of Ingredients and Recipes for the Australian Kitchen (page 259, or p764 of the revised edition) by Stephanie Alexander Boned pork leg was dry salt brined overnight, then roasted at 160C until it reached an internal temperature of 62C. Then rested for 10m and the…
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Continue reading →: Tortiglioni with mushroom and eggplant (Tortiglioni con funghi e melanzane)from The Silver Spoon Quick and Easy Italian Recipes (page 50) by The Silver Spoon Kitchen (also in The Silver Spoon (p304), and the The Silver Spoon Pasta (p153)) It was easy and very good:
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