Ramen is a big part of Japanese culture, and they are all about the broth. This ramen recipe is my first attempt at making ramen from scratch, and I have to say that I’m pretty pleased with the results. An improvement to this dish would be to cook the chicken in a japanese style, rather
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This is a great way to make potatoes if you like the taste of potatoes. I know that sounds obvious, because of course potatoes are good for people who like potatoes, but a lot of potatoes recipes take flavour from other sources, such as cheese, onion, animal fat (such as potatoes roasted in duck fat),
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There’s nothing special about this cottage pie recipe, I’ve just hosted here because I made it the other day and it was delicious. I’d forgotten how delicious cottage pie is, so I have uploaded the recipe so I can find it when I’m looking for meal ideas. This is my own recipe (in that no
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I decided to research how to make a traditional carbonara after I was berated by an Italian friend over my version of carbonara (which I invented, but later found was a common way to make a modern carbonara). I’ll be honest, I prefer my carbonara as a pasta dish, but the two are really incomparable.
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This is a super easy meal to make, which is inexpensive and healthy. It goes well with all types of crisp vegetables, but today I used green capsicum and zucchini. Ingredients Chicken mince Masterfoods Roast chicken seasoning (Salt, Chicken Flavour 19%, Sugar, Paprika, Garlic 9%, Rosemary 8%, Pepper 5%, Onion, Lemon Peel, Chilli 2.5%, Lemon
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I’m not great at concocting vegetarian recipes because I usually use fats, remant flavours from meat or stock to bolster and create moorish sauces; but I was pretty happy with this recipe. I concocted this from a variety of veggie side dishes that I usually make, and presented it neatly as an meal in itself.
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The aim of this dish was to highlight the light, freshness of the salmon, while providing delicious, additive flavours to make the dish slightly more complex. The picture associated with this recipe isn’t the best, and not how I’d prefer to present the dish, but I was on a diet at the time. To that
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This Portuguese style burger is easy to make and tastes great. Ingredients Chicken Lettuce Fynbos ghost peri peri sauce Tomato Paste Mayonnaise French brioche burger buns Orange sweet potato (Orange kumara) chips (I actually used McCain sweet potato cross trax) Onion Tomato Masterfoods Nashville style spicy chicken seasoning (alternatively you can use paprika & chilli
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A quick and easy restaurant quality meal. The lamb is glazed with a maple syrup based glaze, while the pumpkin is cooked in lemon pepper cream sauce and finished with dollops of pesto. This dish would probably be improved slightly with the addition of a side of vegetables such as beans or asparagus that had
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This is my take on a Japanese curry using Japanese Curry Mix from Golden Curry. I call this my Japanese Summer Curry because it’s lighter than my Japanese Winter Curry version and uses less starchy ingredients like potatoes and more greens. Ingredients Golden Curry – Japanese Curry Mix (Mild) from S&B Chicken breasts Rice Broccoli
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