The January 2010 DC challenge was hosted by Cuppy of Cuppylicious and she chose a delicious Thai-inspired recipe for Pork Satay from the book 1000 Recipes by Martha Day. The January challenge requirement was to marinate the satays - any type of meat or non-meat (tofu) could be used. Cuppy (the host) provided a couple of marinade recipes, however neither of [...]
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Posted in Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Jan 13th, 2010
Our household is a big fan of US chef Thomas Keller. The love affair started a few years back when we were given The French Laundry Cookbook, containing recipes from his acclaimed restaurant in the Napa Valley. This is a pretty serious cookbook, with recipes usually involving numerous processes and taking several days to make. [...]
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Continuing on from my previous post (tofu fritters), the next dish we made was a chicken curry (kare ayam). We started by chopping all the spices: These were blended in our large processor, then in the mini processor. In our cooking course we ground the spices by hand (they had these amazing volcanic rock mortal [...]
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Posted in Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Nov 10th, 2009
A while back, keen to try a new cuisine, I bought the cookbook “Persia in Peckham: recipes from Persepolis” by Sally Butcher, from my all time favourite bookshop books for cooks. The book is a great resource for Iranian food and doesn’t take itself too seriously (there are a lot of tongue in cheek asides). Mr M & [...]
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