Beef

Though I’d never actually tried beef stroganoff before, I’d always had a mental association of it with winter and comfort foods, the creaminess of the sauce teemed with flavoursome beef and mushrooms seemed ideal for cold winter days. So, when I bought this month’s edition of the Delicious magazine, they had a recipe from Jamie [...]

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I can’t believe I’m out of caster sugar (superfine sugar for those of you north of the hemisphere). Since WHEN am I out of caster sugar? I’m guessing the culprit is mom as she likes using it for marinades as it dissolves more readily than regular white sugar…*sigh* Damnit, I want cake! Asked mom to [...]

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One last essay *sob*, I’m almost there…Just taking a break at the moment! Now, my family, having mostly grown up with my mother’s cooking, are quite unadventurous when it comes to food. My father will only eat Korean/Chinese/Japanese cuisine, the only other foods he enjoys are pizza, subs (and even then it’s only the teriyaki [...]

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I’m a huge fan of dumplings and potstickers, lovely little bundles of flavoursome goodness that they are. They’re relatively easy to make, especially since your local chinese grocery store will stock the skins and this means you don’t have to roll out 50-odd round little skins yourself. My local stocks a wide variety of different [...]

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