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Fish Cake Soup (Odeng Tang)
If you have the ingredients it won't take you more than 15 minutes to make this.
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And now for something a little more löwenbräu
So that’s cock ale. The name sounds so dirty. As does another beer brewed with meat: oyster porter. Another relic of the 19th century. Yes, this is English porter brewed with oyster meat, or sometimes ground up oyster shells.
Cock Ale
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Chinese Ginger Duck Recipe - 姜麻鴨
Anyway, this recipe is so simple in line with his simplistic attitude to food and life in general - the duck is simply cooked with copious amounts of ginger and some soy sauces for seasoning, add a dash of Chinese Shaoxing wine for added fragrance and that's about it. If you like ginger, I'm quite sure you will love this but if not, then this dish may not be your cup of tea to be honest.
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Flavours of paradise
Questioned about Indonesian food and how it is perceived, she says it is the most misrepresented cuisine of south-east Asia. ''But I believe it is the most majestic,'' she says.
Kintamani fish soup
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Creamed Turnips with Their Greens
I love turnips. They’re a highlight of the fall vegetable yield, but often overlooked I think. Though they look a bit like a parsnip, they have an underlying bite that sweet little parsnips lack. Maybe they’re the crotchety grandpa of the root vegetable world. The greens, like mustard or beet greens, are pretty thick. They need a decent boil, and, in this case, a nice creamy sauce.
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jibaritos with guava paste
Months ago I learned what a jibarito was, when I came across it on a blog. I bookmarked the recipe for this grilled cheese sandwich that uses ripe plaintain in place of bread, but I could never make it--I was missing a key ingredient. And then a few weeks ago, my aunt walked into the kitchen with it: guava paste! ... Having had it now, I can tell you that any jelly would make a decent substitute for guava paste, and jibaritos are special.
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Recipe: Steamed Pork Buns (Baozi)
For the filling, combine the pork, cabbage, scallions, soy, sesame oil, and sherry in a large bowl. Set aside.
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Miso Noodle Soup
This is one of those incredibly quick recipes that is perfect when the first cold days of autumn arrives. Have it for lunch or add some tofu and have it as a light dinner.
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's cooking with milk recipes
This week, I'm marinating, poaching and simmering meat and fish in the white stuff, using milk – and buttermilk – to keep the flesh moist and to carry, round out and deepen flavour.
Pork in milk ... Buttermilk chicken ... Cullen Skink
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Baking Tricks: How to Tell if Baking Soda has Expired
If you don't see bubbles, then sadly, you'll need to take a trip to the store and buy a fresh box!
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Fried Chickpeas with Sausage and Spinach
I followed the method and the main ingredients of the recipe, but I did make one pretty big change. Instead of chorizo, I used spicy chicken sausage that I squeezed out of the casings and broke it into bits as it cooked.
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Alekasandar's Irresistible Brodetto
Brodetto is a fish stew found in many variations along the Adriatic coast. I got this recipe from my boyfriend's colleague who is from Herzegovina. He sent me his family recipe that is more traditional, along with this one, that uses canned tuna.
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Frikadellen: German meat
This is how I discovered frikadellen, which are basically giant flat German meatballs that go perfectly with sauerkraut and potatoes.
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Pork Chops with Tarragon Sauce and Cornichons [gherkins].
This provincial dish is typical fare served after a hard day of grape harvesting. Essentially the dish is pork chops in mustard-cornichon sauce. Added are some stock and Italian parsley.
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The Nasty Bits: Fish Head Soup
Fish heads are good eating and the eyeballs, the crowning glory. There's a lot to be enjoyed from excavating the head of a fish. Besides the eyeballs, most heads contain a sizeable section of flesh as well as some of the most delicious cartilage in existence in the greater animal kingdom.
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Recipe for Greek Cabbage Salad with Feta and Thyme
If you don't have fresh thyme, I think there are some other herbs that would work here, but I wouldn't use dried thyme.
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Baking Tip: Make Your Own Brown Sugar
We don't go through brown sugar very quickly, and our supply inevitably becomes hard and difficult to use. Since we learned this tip, we've stopped buying it all together. We just mix plain sugar with one other ingredient ...
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Traditional Icelandic fish soup (halibut soup) - Fiskisúpa (lúðusúpa)
This soup is among the oldest recorded Icelandic recipes. It's sweet-sour taste is unusual for fish-based soups. Traditionally, the recipe is given for halibut, but you can also use salmon, trout, wolf-fish or lumpfish, or other fatty fish.
