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Originally planned to have lamb and orzo for dinner, but realised we didn't have any orzo. As a result, it was decided to make a kind of souvlaki - which necessitated home-made pitta bread:

 

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Then made home-made Tzatziki to go with it, had corn on the cob, salad, fruit rice and roasted peppers/onions; it was really good! 

 

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On 4/11/2020 at 11:32 AM, mim731 said:

@Chunk those look stunning, have you get a recipe?

They're from Binging with Babish: 

My tip would be to not skip the brown butter step and to make sure you take the butter all the way to the point of brown - it's tempting to take it off the heat too early. Brown butter completely changes the flavour.

Smash burgers this evening:

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And biryani last night:

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If you want to understand how to make soft vs crunchy cookies, this article is the business. Proper nerdy stuff (I've made the resulting cookie recipe and it's fantastic) :

https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best-chocolate-chip-cookies.html

 

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I put some mushrooms on skewers with garlic butter all over them and put a pan of chopped courgettes and chorizo on as well, so all that red juice is the oil from the chorizo that the courgette cooked in. I also had sliced onions with the chorizo too.

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Been doing a fair bit of cooking over the past few weeks, to quell the boredom if nothing else. Gave the recipe @Chunk provided a go (adapted slightly), came out really well and made for some lovely soft chewy cookies. Thanks!

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Been messing about with bread a bit too. Did a vegan soda bread (for experimental purposes). Bit dense, made it with oat milk, but very tasty.

 

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I also did the big old lockdown cliche and made some sourdough. It wasn't quite what I intended, but still happy it came out edible and very enjoyable, lessons learned for future bakes though.

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Tries Harissa Shaksuka on the weekend, which was dead simple but very filling and reasonably healthy too. Would reccomend.

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Had a go at a red miso ramen, which I've been meaning to give a go for a while. Took a bit of messing about to get the eggs right, but happy with the results. Too many fresh chilis on top though, went a bit overboard.

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Finally, we did our favourite treat breakfast over the weekend with chilaquiles which are tortillas cut up and fried and then cooked a second time in tomatillo salsa. I'm not sure this is the most authentic recipe necessarily, but with a poached egg and some feta it was bloody marvellous even if it doesn't look that appetising in this (pretty poor) picture.  

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Sorry for the big photo dump, this has been about two weeks worth, keep forgetting to upload them on the rare occasion when I actually cook vaguely interesting things. 

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4 hours ago, mim731 said:

Finally, we did our favourite treat breakfast over the weekend with chilaquiles which are tortillas cut up and fried and then cooked a second time in tomatillo salsa. I'm not sure this is the most authentic recipe necessarily, but with a poached egg and some feta it was bloody marvellous even if it doesn't look that appetising in this (pretty poor) picture.

Nice! Sounds like perfect hangover food.

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