Goose with Apples & Calvados / Asam Laksa / Tofu with Roasted Chili Paste

Blog Post & Recipe: Christmas Goose with Apples and Calvados

The goose was stuffed with apple pieces marinated in Calvados, then surrounded with apple wedges before roasting.

Blog Post & Recipe: Asam Laksa

Let me present you the 7th most delicious food in the world, the Penang Asam Laksa a noodle dish flavoured with flaked mackerel, tamarind, pineapple and lots of different spices. It is sour, spicy and definitely addictive.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tofu with Roasted Chili Paste | เต้าหู้น้ำพริกเผา

Then you chop a few herbs and start cooking – just sauté the garlic, add the roasted chili paste, then add the tofu and allow it to soak up the wonderfully spicy and sweet flavors of the chili paste. At the last minute, add some green onions and even cilantro if you want. By that time, the rice is generally done and you’re ready to eat.

Super-eggy Scrambled Eggs / Banana Bread / Christmas Dinner with Roast Goose

Blog Post & Recipe: Super-eggy Scrambled Eggs

I came across it while paging through the new Serious Eats book - the idea is to use whole eggs plus egg yolks to make your eggs extra rich, creamy, and flavorful.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sunday Brunch: Banana Bread

This recipe for banana bread is about as simple as it gets, but one of the beauties of banana bread is how well it incorporates odds and ends from the cupboard and fridge. A handful of chocolate chips, some dried cranberries, or even a grated apple can happily be folded into this batter

Article & Recipes: Give goose a gander

Turkey is traditional, but goose makes a fine centrepiece for a Christmas feast [...] If in doubt, buy a meat thermometer, and in general, don’t stuff birds – cook stuffing separately as it can really slow down the whole cooking process.

Mushroom, onion and chestnut soup ... Cranberry sorbet ... Roast goose ... Roast loin of bacon with dried cherries and plums ... Jerusalem artichoke and potato gratin ... Roasted red pepper and macadamia nut stuffing ... Roast Brussels sprouts

Cochinita Pibil Tacos / Slow-Cooked Goose in Brandy, Aromatics & Tomato / Five Spice Pork Belly with Pickled Vegetable Salad

Blog Post & Recipe: Cochinita Pibil (Puerco Pibil) and then Cochinita Pibil Tacos

A tasty slow roasted pork marinated in sour oranges and red annatto seeds.

Recipe: Slow-cooked goose in brandy, aromatics and tomato recipe

This goose has a wonderful, assertive taste from the brandy, which cuts through the fatty meat. It is cooked long enough for the legs to get wonderfully soft.

Article & Recipes: Five Spice Pork Belly with Pickled Vegetable Salad

Belly Pork is fatty and I think best served with something to cut through, I love these spicy pickled salads, they wake you up, if don’t fancy the thai taste, cabbage , carrot and apple works well too dressed with lemon juice and black pepper.

Alsatian Baeckeoffe & Farmhouse Hash / Preserving a Nonstick Pan / A Christmas Feast

Article & Recipe: Meat & potatoes slow-cooked, then turned to hash

Start with Alsatian baeckeoffe ... End with Farmhouse hash with soft-cooked eggs

Article: How Not to Wreck a Nonstick Pan

I am going to share with you what I have learned in hopes of saving you from my mistakes. And as a treat, I’ll throw in a few other cleaning tips as well

Article & Recipes: Sydney's top chefs serve up a Christmas feast

Quay's white peach bellini ... Crostini with truffle butter and jamón de bellota ... Mud crab, heart of palm and pink grapefruit salad ... Italian buffalo mozzarella and heirloom tomatoes with nasturtium pistou ... Roast goose ... Tea eggs ... Roast Dutch cream potatoes ... Cucumber and daikon pickle ... Modern summer pudding dressed up for Christmas

Roast Potatoes / Asian Style Bean Burger / Roast Goose

Blog Post & Recipes: Whose is the best roast potato recipe?

Vicky Frost tests three varieties of spud with four sworn-by recipes from celebrity chefs.

Blog Post & Recipe: Asian Style Bean Burgers

Red Kidney burgers infused with Asian flavors. With the temperatures in the mid 20s, a warm meal with familiar flavors was just perfect.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Roast a Goose (and another Roast Goose recipe from Gordon Ramsay at the Times).

But remember that a goose is not a turkey, just as a duck is not a chicken. You don’t cook them the same way. And both ducks and geese are red meat birds – meaning the breasts of both need to be served medium-rare. That’s pink, or 140-150°F for those of you with thermometers.