Served With Rice
The food diary of a time-poor salaryman. Nutrition conscious, and meal prep friendly.
Category: Weeknight
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Home style Hakka salt roasted chicken
Here’s a classic Cantonese chicken and rice recipe, adapted for the modern kitchen. Simply seasoned, no spills or frills.
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Japanese Yakitori-inspired Chicken And Rice
Watch me try to recreate the taste of Japanese grilled chicken skewers at home. Spoiler alert: it did not go as planned.
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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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A Simple Weeknight Pepper Beef Rice Bowl
Here’s a one-skillet meal that’s loaded with veggies, with enough leftovers to take care of lunch the next day as well. A Chinese take on a Japanese-Chinese classic.
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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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Ranch Roasted Chicken Drumsticks – experimenting with bone-in chicken thighs
An experimental, minimal effort recipe where I take advantage of powdered ranch to make a quick tangy, savoury marinade for chicken drumsticks.
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Old Bay Shrimp and Rice (on a budget)
Shrimp and Old Bay is a match made in heaven. Add butter and garlic for a very good time. This is the first time I cooked with Old Bay – here is how it went!
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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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Minimalist Bulgogi-inspired Ground Pork Rice Bowls
A Korean inspired bulgogi marinade transforms simple ingredients into a basic but tasty rice bowl that is meal prep friendly.
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Fancy Lobster Tails and Garlic Butter Pasta
Make this towering masterpiece for your next date night, and keep your cash in your wallet where it belongs. Optimised to minimise fuss – the lobster seasoning becomes the pasta sauce!
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
