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Stale or leftover bread can be used to make picada which thickens and enhances this tomato-based braise
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Stale or leftover bread can be used to make picada which thickens and enhances this tomato-based braise
A staple at every Southeast Asian restaurant around the world, satay, or sate in the local tongue, is said to have originated in Java. One of the most loved versions is satay chicken, served with sweet peanut sauce that has a hint of spice.
your butcher should be able to provide you with ox cheeks. If not, you can use featherblade, shin, or even oxtail. The art of braising and slow cooking – which is not simply putting a chunk of meat with some seasoning and herbs in the oven at a low temperature – seems to be in danger of disappearing, which is a shame because it’s a great skill to have and makes great use of cheaper cuts of meat.
Read more ...Pasta is the most democratic of foods – delicious, adaptable It’s cheap, too – but just how cheap varies enormously. Bargain basement pasta costs 95p for 500g at the moment, enough for five hearty portions; but posh ones can come in at more than 10 times that. Not to mention that the price of pasta has increased by 90 per cent in two years, new research has revealed.
Read more ...Chickpeas are a store-cupboard staple for me – they’re such a helpful starting point for dinner when there’s not much else in the house.
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