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Ham Hock And Cabbage Soup Pressure Cooker
I recently posted a slow cooker version of this ham and cabbage soup. It takes about 6 hours but it is well worth the wait. If you don’t have that long or like me you have gone a bit ‘pressure cooker mad’, you might want to try this version. Once the cooker is up to…
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Insalata Di Polpo: Octopus Salad Antipasto
The colours, textures and flavours in this dish are so amazing that I almost couldn’t聽 bring myself to eat it. Almost 馃檪聽 I love the simplicity of the ingredients. All you need is some pickled baby octopus, julienned carrot and snow peas (both for crunch), some pasley/coriander and a splash of lemon.聽聽 聽 Enjoy, PK…
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PK’s Moroccan Chickpea Stew With Lamb And Flatbread
The inspiration for this North African style stew came from browsing Wikipedia for North African dishes. I pretty much started with their entry for聽Chakhchoukha (the picture of the dish captivated me) and worked backwards. Chakhchoukha聽is a stew of chickpeas, lamb and seasonal vegetables. It is beefed up with pieces of torn semolina flatbread. The flat…
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PK’s Carrot Chips
These carrot and honey chips are a great alternative to potato fries. Even little fussy eaters will munch down on them. 馃檪 #dinner #carrot #vegetarian #kidfriendlymeals Simply Cut the sides of your carrots to give you nice rectangular blocks. Cut these down further to get the chip width you like. Cover an oven tray in…
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PK’s Slow Cooked Beef Bourguignon
Beef Bourguignon is a very yummy and very ‘French’ slow cooked beef dish that sounds hard to make. Nothing could be further from the truth, especially if you grew up calling it Beef Burgundy. The hardest part of this recipe is waiting the 4 hours to get to eat it. 馃檪 馃檪 The French sure…
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PK’s Vietnamese Beef Noodle Salad
This simple Vietnamese inspired salad could not be easier. Think of it as a start though and experiment every time you make it.聽I have said it before, Southeast Asian flavours are hard to get “perfect” but so easy to get “tasty”. The trick is in tailoring the sauce ratios to your preferences. 馃檪 Note: I…
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PK’s Easy Squid Salad
This squid and green salad is a treat for the eyes and the taste buds. It makes a bit of squid go a long way. 馃檪 The trick is only boiling the squid rings long enough to to make them go opaque and slightly bumpy. Don’t over cook them or you will make rubber salad!…
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PK’s Chicken And Pasta Soup
Simply take a chicken frame or two (hopefully from the whole chicken you just deboned) and place in your slow cooker.聽Now add water until the frames are covered. Sometimes I also throw in a chicken leg or two (on the bone). Chop up a brown onion, several celery sticks and several carrots (I leave them…
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KT’s NoRecipe Green Salad
I used to find making salads overly time-consuming until KT taught me this simple method. It scales really well so you can make it for large gatherings just as easily. You start with a layer of washed and dried greens. I use a salad spinner to do this as it gets them drier than paper…
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PK’s Slow Cooker Whole Chicken
This mouth-watering dish is designed to be super thrifty and dead easy to boot. I managed to use some old tired veggies and to get a free-range chook on special. I am also happy to say it took longer to eat the dish than it did to prepare it. I simply took a whole chicken,…
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