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Cookbook : The Good Table by Valentine Warner Featuring Stubby Beans
The first recipe that grabbed me enough to try was Stubby Beans, this is Valentine’s preferred take on Baked Beans using “the stump” of the pig – the hock.
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ginger tea
There are better ways of doing it no doubt, but here's what I do: grate a little pile of the stuff, a palmful or so depending on how many need it, then steep in boiling water (a small teapot is best) for 3 minutes.
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John Willoughby's Tagine-Style Lamb Stew
There's lamb shoulder and butter and onion. There is a trio of warm spices (cumin, coriander, cinnamon) and apricot jam and red wine vinegar and garlic. There are chickpeas and red pepper flakes, prunes and parsley. In short, this stew holds everything but the kitchen sink.
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Tomato Sushi - Yes, That's Vegetarian - Recipe
Tomatoes taste incredible with nori. I need to explore this flavor combination more. The umami in each seems to reinforce the other in a way that I find really compelling.
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Slow Cooked Sausage and Beans
It is best to use dried beans in casseroles or slow cooks, the tinned beans just turn to mush. When using dried beans in a slow cook dish like this , you do need to cook them before adding them to the slow cooker/casserole.
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Snapshots from Malaysia: How to Make Curry Laksa (Nyonya Laksa)
Like many Malaysian dishes, it starts with a blended spice paste of turmeric, galangal, lemongrass, and shrimp paste, and cooks down that blend to concentrate flavors; shrimp or chicken broth turns that thick paste to a broth, and the coconut milk is added toward the end.
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Pinto Bean and Zucchini Hummus
Zucchini lends a western Mediterranean flair to this spicy but rich and earthy hummus made from pinto beans instead of chickpeas, with yogurt along to add a ... tang.
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Spinach Soup with Potato & Fried Garlic
... a simple spinach soup, with all in a bowl & one dominant flavor of fried garlic ... Unlike the popular pureed & creamy spinach soup, this one has the leaves just wilted. The color of the soup will depend on the amount of tomato you use & also the turmeric. More tomato also adds a slight tang, so if you want yours slightly sharp, feel free to use more tomato in it.
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Spaghetti All'arrabbiata
All'arrabbiata means "angry style", and that's all you really need to know about this recipe. It's a tomato sauce with a kick. Usually that comes from crushed red pepper flakes, but I found this recipe from FX Cuisine that trades the flakes for ... one fiercely hot chile ... something happens to the chile during the cooking process. Since only a little bit is used, the shocking spiciness fades away into a glorious lingering glow ...
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Rendering Duck FatRecipe:
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Pinto Bean Pie: Sweet, not Savory!I’d been curious about bean pie for quite a while. When I first heard of it, I assumed that it was a version of Frito pie that was made with beans instead of chili. But when I heard people talking about eating bean pie for dessert, I realized that I had been wrong and that bean pie is sweet not savory.
After a bit of research, I found quite a few recipes and from the spices added decided that bean pie was trying to approximate a pumpkin or a sweet potato pie, as often included were allspice, cloves, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. And even though some recipes insisted that pinto bean pie was a substitute for pecan pie, after making it I failed to taste how this could be the case.
