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Cantonese style steamed fish
Here's an incredibly simple recipe to try. Make it your own with versions including coriander root, green chillies and lime for a Thai...
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You too can vindaloo!
May I put it on the record as a card carrying South Indian that a true vindaloo should have no potatoes, be more red than brown, and...
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Finders Keepers: cabbage and coriander slaw with sesame seeds
Here's a recipe from New Zealander Emma Galloway which is on her blog My Darling Lemon Thyme. We assembled the coleslaw this week-end at...
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Let's make these appams!
I couldn't include the recipe when I wrote about finally making mum's delicious, light and yeasty, coconutty appams a few days ago. As...
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Meatloaf, two ways.
I’ve been making Nana’s simple meatloaf, and you’ll find that while it is yummy with a side of creamy mashed potato and steamed veggies...
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Kids in the Kitchen: Italian milky lemon scented pork.
Dusted off this article I wrote for Virginia Living many years ago, and I thought with our kids being homeschooled now, it could be...
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Finders Keepers: Tuna Confit with braised beans, and celery salad from Alison Roman
With two lovely pieces of tuna in hand, I remembered recently seeing this recipe in her newsletter. Let me just say, it was the easiest...
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Mexican Pozole Soup
Ah, I love this - love that this yummy soup is sour and chilli hot, and hearty. I used this recipe an eon ago while writing the food...
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A standard chicken curry for rainy nights.
I am cooking up a simple chicken curry. Such comfort, a chicken curry with potatoes and a thick gravy poured over steaming rice. A raita...
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Eating with Artists: Tom Polo
Tom Polo and I had been meaning to have a chat for Eating With Artists for a while. When you're as obliging as Tom is, but life includes...
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Making okonomiyaki and dreaming of Tokyo.
Wandering the streets of Tokyo late one night just before Christmas, we finally found the steamed up window of a hole-in-the-wall in a...
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Lagoon Dining: an ode to Melbourne
On Lygon Street historically dominated by Italian cafes and restaurants, coffee and pastries, a quietly elegant SE Asian dining...
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Comfort in Congee
After my parents passed away, the trips to visit them in Kuala Lumpur ended, and so did bowlfuls of congee for breakfast. For me, missing...
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Nanna's eggplant curry
When we're together, there's always a request for Nanna's eggplant curry. It is an anomaly, not really fitting into any category for...
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Pasta with Spicy Vodka sauce
Isabel, here's my version of this recipe- can you please send me yours? There are many versions out there, but the one I favour the most...
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Figuring out Fresh Figs
Abundantly fresh and sweet at the markets right now, when Prickle Hill dropped off my box of beautiful produce this week, I wondered...
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By way of Martin: Thai style Pomelo Salad
We Southeast Asians are notoriously obsessed about food. If we're not eating something, shopping for it, or cooking, or talking about it,...
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Gently spiced chicken stew: a New Year's tradition
What to cook today? After the inevitable post champagne and fireworks anti-climax, waking to an overcast day promising many more to come,...
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Ikan Bilis sambal
The packet of ikan billis (dried anchovies) was taunting me on the kitchen counter....reminding me of mum's sambal which was fiery and...
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Moroccan Lamb
Moroccan Lamb First posted in Izzy Have You Eaten on February 5, 2012 This recipe is a favourite as it is quick to prepare and cooking...
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