Served With Rice
The food diary of a time-poor salaryman. Nutrition conscious, and meal prep friendly.
Category: Snacks and Sides
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Low Carb Duck and Shiitake Lettuce Cups
A bit of inspiration and planning is all it takes to breathe new life into stale leftovers. This dinner punches above its weight class in flavour, while remaining light on the calories.
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Shrimp and Guacamole on Crackers, and an exercise in plating
Pretty food tastes better, and there’s a lot of things an amateur can do to upgrade the presentation of a home-cooked meal.
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Chinese Duck, Shiitake and Winter Melon Soup
Winter melon makes a refreshing soup for the winter. Supercharge the flavour with shiitake mushrooms, and the bones and trimmings from roast duck.
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Simple 5-ingredient Napa Cabbage Soup
Here’s a quick vegetable broth, infused with the umami of dried shrimp. 5 ingredients only, including water and salt.
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Quick Weeknight Kimchi Pancake
Also known as kimchi-jeon or kimchi-buchimgae. Quick, easy and delicious don’t often play together, but that’s the deal you get with this tangy, savoury pancake.
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Radish Cake for the Lunar New Year
Make this treat with daikon radishes for the Lunar New Year! Eat your vegetables while having fun in this savoury analogue to carrot cake and banana bread.
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Shiitake Mushroom and Zucchini Saute
Fresh shiitakes add meatiness without meat. This quick and easy shiitake and zucchini sauté can stand on its own, as well as being a side dish for a larger meal.
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Japanese-inspired Vegetable Stir Fry with Sous Vide chicken
Anything goes with this vegetable variety pack! Assemble a mixture of colours and textures to make vegetables exciting again. Served with an argument in favour of cooking chicken sous vide from frozen, not thawed.
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Simple 5-ingredient Bok Choy Soup
Besides stir fries, Bok choy is also wonderful for soup. Learn to make this weeknight pork and Boy choy broth with just 5 ingredients.
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Cast Iron Skillet Hack – Pressed Sausage rolls
These sausage rolls have a crispy exterior, and gooey insides. Learn how I took a childhood snack to the next level by improvising with a cast iron skillet.
My spirit animal is a dinosaur
I guess it would be an Oryzasaurus
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Beef Blanching Broccoli Cabbage Carrots Cast iron Cheese Chicken Dashi Date Night Dried shrimp Eggs Fish and seafood Fish sauce Garlic Ginger Glass noodles Gochujang Honey Lettuce Miso Napa cabbage Old Bay Onion Oven Pasta Peppers Pork Potatoes Salmon Sesame oil Shiitake mushrooms Shrimp Soup Sous Vide Spicy Steaming Stewing Stir fry String beans Sweet potatoes Teriyaki Tomatoes Yogurt Zucchini
