All posts tagged "Daddy cooks!"
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167DrinksPineapple Grapefruit Coconut Rum Cocktail
Bring a little sunshine to your New Year’s Eve party with this fresh and bright pineapple grapefruit coconut rum cocktail! No bartending skills required.
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83DrinksTipsy Melon Balls
Whether you treat them as cocktail food or drink, it doesn’t matter. It’s a punch, if you ask me. These tipsy melon balls are infused with vodka, drenched in pineapple...
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69Cooked With VegetablesBacon Mushroom Spinach
When you have an ingredient as flavorful as bacon, you don’t need a lot of other seasonings to make a tasty dish. Speedy surprised us with this bacon mushroom spinach...
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47A Cook's DiaryChristmas Day Lunch 2016
Despite the threat that typhoon Nina would make for a wet Christmas, we went ahead and set up the table in the garden for our Christmas Day lunch. As usual,...
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76Sandwiches & WrapsSam’s Farmhouse Sandwich
If a movie can have a sequel, so can a good sandwich. This sandwich — imagined and created by Speedy — is so named because the fillings are meats of farm...
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62Bread & BreakfastBlueberry Smoothie With Oats and Yogurt
Speedy made it based on a video from Real Simple. This blueberry smoothie has rolled oats, yogurt and… ginger. Yes, ginger! As strange as that may sound, ginger adds a...
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40MeatlessSpeedy’s version of Laura Calder’s gingered watercress
Speedy watches more food and cooking shows these days than I do. And the two hosts he doesn’t like to miss are Nigella Lawson and Laura Calder. I used to...
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1716Kitchen & PantryDoes dumpling meat filling have to be raw before wrapping?
To make the dumpling filling stick to the wrapper, it has to be sticky. That’s really the main reason why the meat is minced and a little flour or starch...
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521Sandwiches & WrapsSausage and Apple Sandwiches
There is a program on Asian Food Channel called Return to River Cottage hosted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. An old show, actually, that originally started airing in 2000 but which we’re...
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586Sandwiches & WrapsTripe, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich
Think BLT but, instead of bacon, it’s tripe so tender it almost melts in the mouth. And, seasoned with lemon juice and finely sliced chilies, the gamut of flavors and...
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638Appetizers & SnacksTuron (banana spring rolls) with dulce de leche
How many ways have we made turon? Let me count: 1. Cheesy turon 2. Turon with toffee and peanut butter sauce 3. Turon with bacon and cheese 4. Turon with...
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433Sweets & DessertsCampfire Cones (Without the Campfire)
Speedy saw campfire cones featured on some TV show on Facebook, he was immediately smitten and, less than twenty-four hours later, he had all the ingredients for making them. What...
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479Appetizers & SnacksEggplant “Pizza”
It’s not really a pizza — that’s why, in the title, “pizza” is enclosed in quotes. But it is like a pizza because the eggplant “pizza” has a crust, and...
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542Sweets & DessertsMelon Cocktail With Grape Syrup
If you Google “melon cocktail”, you’ll find that there are two categories. The first is an alcoholic drink; the second is a dessert. This falls under the dessert category. But...
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704MeatlessFresh button mushrooms and parsley salad
Yesterday, I had lunch with girl friends from law school, the conversation — hilarious all the way — ranged from unsavory characters to disillusionment with the justice system to domestic...
