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Can’t Get Any Fresher Than That! (Fresh Fish – 5 ways)

March 10, 2012
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After almost 10 years of dating and marriage, the day I’ve been waiting for all these years had finally come. Scotch returned home from a day of fishing with an ACTUAL FISH! And not just one but TWO! Not that he doesn’t normally succeed in catching fish when he’s out fishing but he is in [...]

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Come Dine With Me – Day 5 of 6 – Kilawin, Kilawin!

May 30, 2011
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It’s the penultimate night of our Come Dine With Me competition and we have gathered ourselves at Nelson’s English Pub at the Media Rotana in Tecom. Our hostess tonight, MCK, having just returned from a trip to the UK, is running a little late so the rest of us have decided to grab a few [...]

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Come Dine With Me – Day 2 of 6 – Ceviche, Ceviche!

May 23, 2011
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Day two of our Come Dine With Me competition finds us in Dubai Marina at SV’s apartment for a night of Mexican delights. Having been the first to dish it out in Day One, my job in the kitchen was done and I could now relax and concentrate on eating and indulging in my friends’ [...]

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Emirati Recipe: Fried Fish (Sa-mak ma-ga-lee)

May 18, 2011
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As part of my Cooking Local project to learn more about Emirati food and culture, I am attempting to cook through Celia Ann Brock-Al Ansari’s The Complete UAE Cookbook. I have completed 8 recipes so far out of…oh…73. Crikey, at the rate I’m going, I might be old and withered before I’m finished. Out of the [...]

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Emirati Recipe: Baked Fish (Sa-mak bil fern)

March 6, 2011
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The cooking method of this dish reminds me of a recipe I previously posted: Fish-in-a-Bag – an Easy Peasy Recipe! It is my favorite way of cooking fish as it involves almost no clean up and the fish comes out perfectly cooked every time. For the Emirati version of fish-in-a-bag, I used tilapia bought from [...]

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Emirati Recipe: Fish Cakes (Sa-mak Koufta)

February 20, 2011
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted about my Arabic/Emirati cooking attempts. The last recipe (lamb fried with spices / la-ham nashif) was posted back in September 2008. Almost 2 and a half years ago! Yes, I am such the delinquent. Today’s recipe is an Arabic version of something I like very much – fish [...]

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Mom’s Vietnamese Sweet and Sour Soup

October 8, 2009
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My mom makes a killer Vietnamese Sweet and Sour Soup. It’s pretty much restaurant quality. Actually, it’s better than restaurant quality. She gave me the recipe a few years a go and I like to make it every once in a while because it’s mm-mm good. Scotch is not a big soup person so he [...]

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Easy-Peasy Recipe: Fish in a Bag!

January 3, 2008
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One of my favorite easy-peasy meals is Fish-in-a-Bag. I fell in love with this method from the first time I saw Jamie Oliver prepare it on his TV show, The Naked Chef. And just as Jamie suggested, if I couldn’t be home to prepare dinner, I would prepare a fish-in-a-bag ahead of time for Scotch [...]

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