food
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Beef Stroganoff
Sometimes a dish becomes a family favourite because I happened to stumble on the ingredients while looking for inspiration and an old classic is brought to mind. This is what happened with Beef Stroganoff. I used to go to a morning yoga class near an M&S Food Hall. If I hadn’t already bought stuff for
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Sommel-AI: Char Siu Pork with Riesling
Tonight I’m trying out Waitrose British Free Range Char Siu Pork Medallions. I’ll serve them with homemade ‘Korean carrots’ – basically a quick sweet and spicy pickle of Jullien carrots -, smacked cucumbers – Lao Gan Ma, salt, sesame oil-, Vadasz Kim Chi, broad rice noodles. I asked Chat GPT for a Waitrose wine pairing
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Spaghetti Showdown
This post is inspired by our summer holidays in Montenegro. In Sv. Stepan we go to a little ‘caffe’ each year – we love their family kitchen vibe, and Masha and I always have the local seafood platter for two. Like many tourist spots, they also have a variety of Mediterranean favourites, i.e. pizzas, salads,
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‘Dippin’ Strips and Caesar
This family favourite is inspired by one of my student days lunches: White Spot’s ‘Dippin’ Strips and Caeser’ bought at the Triple O’s concession in SFU’s quadrangle. I see this is no longer on the menu so I guess it’s now a heritage recipe. Just like the dish itself is ‘inspired’ by White Spot, my
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The Jamaica one – Anditos Foods
I’m going to open this section with a compelling little drama involving one of my dopplegangers in Jamaica. Between the 12th of November ’13 and the 15th of March ’14 I received a series of twelve emails from ‘Kadian G’. Kadian is the clearly on the frontline, trying to manage the chaos of the day-to-day,