Tag: braised
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Nostalgic Comfort: Braised Cantonese Style Tofu Recipe
When I was a kid Chinese food was the one exotic eating option in rural Australia. For my eighth birthday dinner, I chose the standard family celebration dinner, roast chicken with pavlova for dessert. My best friend came for dinner and brought an exotic offering, a container of fried rice, from the Chinese restaurant that…
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Greek Briami Recipe: Delicious Vegan Casserole
I made this briami last week while I was up the coast for a wet and wild week away. Despite the rain, we still managed to have a great holiday catching up with family and friends. We enjoyed a few sunny patches and our last full day was miraculously sunny (though too cold for swimming)…
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Braised tofu with shitake mushrooms, tomatoes and peas
This is one of my favourite comfort food dishes. It’s the combination of rice and peas, like the Italian risi e bisi, that I find particularly irresistible. There is something very cleansing about this dish, which really allows the silken tofu to shine. The recipe comes from Kylie Kwong’s Simple Chinese Food – the original…
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Greek Fasolakia: Slow Braised Green Bean Stew Delight
This is one of those magical dishes: so simple, with a nice short ingredient list which transforms a pile of green beans into something quite different and deliciously more than the some of its parts. The green beans are braised ever so slowly, so that they become oozily tender but not mushy. There is something…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 