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Crab Cream Croquettes
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Creamy delicious, excellent with the suggested tonkotsu dipping sauce. Essentially crab roux, cooled, shaped and fried. Really good, needs a nice, finely sliced salad with a sharp dressing. From Japaneasy,…
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Miso cod and dashi soba
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Made with instant dashi for convenience, the times of 10 minutes per side are only for exceptionally thick slabs of cod, I used 8 minutes per side and it was…
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Pan fried fish with rosemary, tomato & vinegar
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Superb, quick meal that bergs you to dip crusty bread in it. Used frozen sardines here, but something a little more solid would be ideal. From Aegean, pg. 59
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Flash Loaf
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A quick proving recipe with a high yeast content. Difficult to judge on this showing due to a couple of significant change, such as the white flour being replaced with…
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Pak choy & Shiitake
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Very quick, simple stir fry, lovely and fresh tasting and could be a main or a side quite happily. The sauce somewhat gummed up here and reduced to a coating,…
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Oven baked aubergine, tomato & sheep's cheese bechamel
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This is not what the book intends, the aubergine shells did not come out crispy and could in no way be filled so much as they could be draped into…
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Roast Roots & Feta
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A variation on a perviously cooked dish, no soft cheese was available so feta was experimented with, thrown in to the roasting dish with the roots. It seemed like this…
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Baked feta
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Exceptional thing to do to a slab of feta. Easy, quick, delicious. A subsequent ordering of the dish in a taverna revealed that you can really push the grilling quite…
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Basque-style cheese cake
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I do believe that this is now my favourite cheesecake recipe. It turns out having the best qualities of both unbaked and baked cheesecakes. Though do remember to let it…
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Butternut and cannelloni gratin
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Really quite excellent, at this moment the finest recipe from this book. From Anna Jones, pg. 212