Tag: cooking with alcohol
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How Is Sherry Used In The Kitchen
Sherry is a fortified wine that is made from white grapes. You will want a bottle in your pantry at all times. Here are a few reasons why.- Like Sake and Chinese rice wine, sherry is a great meat tenderizer when used as a marinade and even during the cooking process. Sherry is a flavour…
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Jacques Pépin’s Traditional Chicken Liver Pâté
Made from bird livers, Pâté is one of those things you either love or hate, there is no middle ground. I have eaten it ever since I was a small lad and my favourite is chicken with green peppercorns. Edit – People have told me there is a middle ground if I would just stop…
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Using Brandy In The Kitchen
Brandy is a spirit that is made by distilling wine. The spirit is then aged or coloured to make it look aged. I predominantly use it to make Pâté and my wife makes a mean Christmas cake every year with brandy soaked raisins. Brandy is also great for making sauces and marinades. Enjoy, PK YOU MIGHT ALSO…
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The Easiest Steak Diane Sauce
My family sure does like its beef :). We are very lucky in Australia to have a great beef industry and also the climate to barbecue it year round. That mean lots of opportunity to experiment in the kitchen. Most days I look up recipes that make use of the plants I have in my…
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PK Makes Ching He Huang’s Beef in Oyster Sauce
My hat off to the BBC chef Ching He Huang and her simple but flavoursome Beef in Oyster Sauce recipe. This dish caught my eye because it calls for tenderising, with a mallet or rolling pin, beef eye fillet (tenderlion) steaks. I can see you shaking your head but trust me it is a transformational part…
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Beer Can Chicken Roasting Rack
I got this beer can chicken roasting rack from Bunnings, for a steal. I used it with a half full can of beer the first time and the result was very pleasing. The rack keeps the chicken vertical, allowing the fat to drip away. The beer keeps the inside of the chicken moist. Between you…
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PK’s Small Batch Hard Ginger Beer
Not much tops a nice cold glass of home made ginger beer on a hot Perth summers day. In this recipe I use a small 2L fermenting jar with a built in one way airlock. It makes just the right amount to share with a few friends over lunch. As with my hard apple cider…
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PK’s Adults Only Hard Cider
There is a long tradition of making hard cider in European culture. Farms would have a few apple trees of varietals just right for making cider. Go back far enough and you hear stories of agricultural workers either being paid in cider or being allowed to take windfall apples for free to make their own.…
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