Tag: Cooking
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Twin Fish – Japanese Chef Knife
Oops. I did it again. (OK, I’m not a fan of Britney Spears but it never hurts to mention a celebrity name on your blog.) Despite having an already vast selection of knives, I bought another two. I can resist anything but temptation. (Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan) – and there’s another famous name to…
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Foyles for Books
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Thai Spicy Squid Salad
This is the sort of dish I can knock out without thinking about it, which I did. Then I dutifully photographed it. And then after the salad had been scoffed I realised that, as usual, I had just bunged everything in and hadn’t a clue about what quantities I’d used. I scoured my cookbooks for…
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Rice Salad
Rice salad is a good way to use up odds and ends from the fridge. The main idea is to make it look colourful and appealing. Pretty much anything goes but it shouldn’t be a culinary dustbin. It’s a salad so be sure to only use nice fresh vegetables. The rice should be cooked and…
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Two Types of Tamarind
We went down to our local market to buy tamarind, which apparently is essential for making some Indian dishes, such as prawn pathia, as well as being fairly commonly used in Thai cooking. There’s an interesting article about cooking with tamarind here – which I would have been better off reading before going to the…