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What Does The Cooking Term Maceration Mean?
Maceration is the technique of soaking fruit or vegetables in a liquid. This liquid is often their own juices that are drawn out using salt and or sugar. The goal of maceration is to enhance flavour, improve texture and aid in digestion. A good example is Friggione, an Italian slow cooked tomato and onion relish…
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Bish Grows Spring Onions The Thrifty Way
I’ll readily admit I heard about this from PK directly, and have been super happy with how it’s gone – I’ve not bought spring onions for over a year as a result. The trick is to buy (your last!) bunch of spring onions from the supermarket, and make sure a few of the ends have…
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Asian Style Chicken Stock Base
This simple chicken stock is a great base from which to make a huge range of Asian dishes. I use it to make Udon soup and when I am poaching chicken thighs for example. There are three stages in making this stock. Firstly throw ginger, garlic and sliced onion into a large pot of water.…
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Welchy’s Roasted Tomato Soup
Welchy knows how to make soups that will warm any winter’s day. Her roasted tomato and garlic soup is a prime example and, of course, is so easy to make. She writes: Roast a good amount of tomatoes for about an hour, set aside. Saute some diced garlic and onion, then add them and the…
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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 Chakhchoukha (the picture of the dish captivated me) and worked backwards. Chakhchoukha 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 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. 🙂 🙂 The French sure…
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Dried Onions
A great way to preserve your onion crop (or in my case a bunch of onions on special) is to dice them and dry them. I quite often freeze onion slices too but I found both my cupboard and freezer devoid of onions 🙂 . Note: This method is great for drying garlic too (see Dried Garlic).…
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PK’s Chicken Crown Roast With Bacon
I stuffed this chicken crown joint with bacon, sage, thyme, key lime peel and onion. The skin was rubbed in olive oil, cracked black pepper and salt. I roasted it (~ 1 hour: fan forced oven: 200C) in an upright position to let the stuffing drip and infuse through the roast as it cooked. …
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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. 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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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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