Lunch 2/2

Hankering for Chicken Rice

Okay, Isabel- here it is. Reminding you that the recipe is coming from a family tradition of air drying a chook for hours with a bit of...

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Many years ago when I was a new and inexperienced cook, I really appreciated seeing this made in a friend's kitchen as I wouldn't have...

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I've been cooking for an elderly friend each week during Covid19 and this weekly commitment has brought me pleasure and benefits. One of...

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Tucked deep in a Sydney business district laneway is Flyover Friterie ...... a window counter out of which is dispensed some of the most...

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You can't go past some upma (pronounced oop-ma) for a comforting breakfast. It is up there with congee; yes its that category of goodness...

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Once in Los Angeles, the formidable and wonderful Niloufer Ichaporia King (how about THAT for a cool name) did a book signing in a...

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I don’t know if we ever discussed this, but the name Hainan Meatballs is entirely a made up one. I made up this recipe many years ago,...

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Thai fish cakes are always my favourite. And yet, they can be disappointing in a restaurant: some places add flour which makes them taste...

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Husband Michael printed this recipe off from New York Times Cooking and it sat on the kitchen bench for a few days until he had the time...

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The phase of slow cooking. We’re home, with time on our hands enabling us to make complicated things that take days…. like bread, or a...

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Samin Nosrat of the famed Salt Fat Acid Heat cookbook and tv show wrote with joyful enthusiasm in the New York Times Cooking column about...

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The perfect excuse to cook Japanese Recently Jen in St. Louis sent the message out to resurrect our ten year old Toronto Supper Club we...

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We make ourselves eat breakfast because we know that it’s so important as our fuel for a busy day. But we’re all leaping up in the...

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Originally posted August 16, 2016 I made this when we got home from a road trip on the week-end. Whiling away the long hours in the...

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