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Day 7 – Nasi Lemak with Sambal Ikan Bilis
It defies everything we are ever taught about food safety and busts quite a few myths about travelling as well. It’s food prepared in blistering hot conditions, often within metres of traffic, cooked...
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Day 11 – Tomato and Pork Risotto
Sometimes, the best laid plans of the most organised cook goes out the window, resulting in a meal idea that changes rapidly as one by one, you realise that you have run out of key ingredients. This...
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Day 14 – Slow-Cooker Rice Pilaf
A slow-cooked rice dish is a little different from other slow cooker recipes you may have – for one thing rice doesn’t take six hours to cook, at least, not unless you want congee. Two to three hours...
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Day 3 – Beetroot Risotto
Within a week of getting to Melbourne I was lunching at a restaurant that prides itself on a $10 lunch. A $10 lunch can often be a mixed blessing – in this case, it provided unexpected joy. A...
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Day 2 – Thai-Style Garlic Chicken with Rice Noodles
This started as a way to use up leftover prawns following Christmas celebrations, but as useful as it was, I over did it with the fish sauce. So, back to the kitchen, and this time, a more...
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Desserts – Slow Cooked Rice Pudding
We all love our slow cookers in The Challenge community but sometimes we forget that slow cooking can be utilised across a number of areas. There are people who swear they are the very best way to make...
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Day 12 – Spring Vegetable Risotto
The day I made this risotto, three loads of washing dried in record time, the air was heavily scented with jasmine and I had an urge to spring clean. This meal at the end of such a productive day only...
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Lunch Box Treats – Sushi Rolls
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Day 7 – Lemony Chicken and Bean Risotto
My housemate went on leave and before she dashed out of the house for a four hour drive to her hometown, yelled instructions for using up some food in the fridge. Half a barbecued chicken needed using...
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Day 8 – Mongolian Beef and Noodle Stir-Fry
Mongolian Lamb. It’s not authentic of course, no more authentic than sweet and sour pork, but it still consistently rates as one of the most popular of all takeaway items from chinese restaurants...
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Day 10 – Rice Paper Rolls
I met her because she married my brother-in-law and for a while we were all part of the same family. Despite our differences, or perhaps because we were allies in a Cold War of attrition between the...
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Day 12 – Long and Short Soup
I defy anyone who thinks that a quick takeaway is easier to arrange than cooking for themselves to try this soup and note the difference. Yes, it uses takeaway items – in this case six of steamed dim...
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Day 9 – Mediterranean Quinoa ‘Risotto’
To my mind, and palate, there is something all meat-free meals should have: Umami. Difficult to define, umami is the earthy, full-flavoured mouth-feel that gives depth and a subtle oiliness to one’s...
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Day 10 – Mushroom Risotto
I haven’t always used them, but recently I have become a fan of dried mushrooms. You can buy large bags of them in the asian food section of big supermarkets, and I have even seen 500g bags of dried...
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Day 12 – Crispy Noodle Salad
A few weeks ago I was given a gift basket of Chang’s products – lots of noodles and sauces with which to make my favourite stir-fry. Included in the basket was a packet of fried noodles and I admit to...
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Day 1 – Suzanne’s Chana Pulao
Every now and then I struggle for inspiration in the kitchen. Those of you who have about a dozen recipes or less in your repertoire would I’m sure read this and be tempted to throw something at their...
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Day 14 – Kedgeree
First published in 2010, this is a family favourite and worth a re-visit. While it’s not strictly vegetarian, it IS meat-free making it a marvellous choice if you want to observe Meat-Free Week (which...
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