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Hungarian Goulash with Fresh Crusty Bread

24 January 2021

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Welcome to my page! My name is Saffron, I'm a freelance photographer living in Amsterdam. I’m not a chef but a passionate cook and lover of all things food. With this site I'd like to share my passion and knowledge and maybe even inspire you to go on an adventurous food journey as well.

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Beef Pepper Fry with Buttery Paratha’s I love a

Beef Pepper Fry with Buttery Paratha’s

I love a cooking challenge, when I have the time I love making things from scratch, for example curry pastes and sauces. I’ve made the more well known Indian dishes before, like butter chicken or tikka masala, so I was really excited to try out something new.

The cookbook from @dishoom is full of recipes you don’t come across at your basic take-out, like this pepper fry. Dishoom makes it with goat or lamb but in Kerala they also make it with beef, so I thought I’d give that a try.

I absolutley loved the spice mix and the structure and flavour of the sauce. The house smelled ridiculously good. A proper ‘grown up’ curry my boyfriend said. The paratha’s (kind of like flakey naans) were pretty easy to make and a great side for the thick curry sauce. Leftovers for lunch!

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Pasta Pesto with Crispy Pancetta and Pine Nut Garl

Pasta Pesto with Crispy Pancetta and Pine Nut Garlic Crumb

A simple dinner for a busy day, super tasty and ready within 15 minutes. The pesto I already made a few days ago so I had that ready to go. I started with the pancetta: Lay out flat on a lined baking tray and bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes at 200°C until crispy.

Cook the spaghetti until just al dente (± 10 min). Drain the pasta leaving behind ± 1/4 cup of starchy water and add ± 1/2 cup pesto, or how much you have lying around. Stir thoroughly so the pesto emulsifies with the pasta water creating a lovey sauce.

While the pasta is boiling you can make the crumb: in a frying pan add a small drop of olive oil, a handful of breadcrumbs and some pine nuts (optional). Season with pepper, salt and garlic powder. Fry until cispy, ± 3 minutes.

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Thai Crab Cakes with Nam Pla Prik I’ve been mak

Thai Crab Cakes with Nam Pla Prik

I’ve been making these crab cakes for so long, I think it’s one of the first dishes I started taking to potluck dinners and making for friends. I remember being super surprised how amaizing they were. Over the years I’ve tried different versions but I keep coming back to this recipe, it’s just too good.

The (not so) secret ingredient I feel is the Thai lime leaves, they give such a distinct citrussy and Asian flavour. Coated in a crunchy layer of panko bread crumbs, shallow fried until crispy and then dipped in Nam Pla Prik, a simple Thai dipping sauce of fish sauce, (palm sugar), lime juice and Thai chili’s. Yum!

Oh and they freeze great as well! So make a whole batch and freeze them raw before coating with the breadcrumbs.

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Thai Red Curry with Crispy Fried Cod Drizzled with

Thai Red Curry with Crispy Fried Cod Drizzled with Mint & Bird’s Eye Chili Sauce
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I love to make my own curry pastes, but sometimes I just don’t have time or am not in the mood to make it from scratch. There are some really good curry pastes available at the Asian supermarkets, better than the ones on regular supermarkets I find.
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For this dish I used a red Penang Curry paste, all you need is a finely chopped onion, garlic, ginger, fish sauce, palm or brown sugar, a squeeze of lime and coconut milk to make a proper sauce. For the veggies I added mushrooms, peppers and courgette because that’s what I still had lying around in the fridge.
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For the fish I used cod, but pretty much any whit fish will do, breaded in panko bread crumbs and shallow fried a few minutes in peanut oil. The little dipping sauce of fish sauce, sugar, chili and mint drizzled over the top is the perfect finishing touch.
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If you'd like to keep it vegetarian or vegan you can replace the fish with deep fried crispy tofu and the fish sauce with light soy sauce.
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This recipe is from @lazyishmeals , all I adjusted was add some veggies and added lime juice to the drizzle sauce.
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Miso Butter Onions Ok ok, so I’m a bit late wit

Miso Butter Onions

Ok ok, so I’m a bit late with trying this recipe, I’ve seen it pop up on so many blogs and sites already but I just haven’t had a chance to try it yet. Wow, have we been missing out!

With just 4 simple ingredients (onions, white miso paste, butter and water) these onions are transformed into little bite size parcels: silky smooth texture, umami flavours, caramelized undertones, charred goodness. It’s really ridiculuous and absolutely decadent.

The ingredients are simple, but it does take a bit of effort: first cook the onions, cut side down and covered with aluminium foil in the miso butter sauce for 25 minutes at 240°C. Then remove the foil, flip the onions and continue to bake for ± 45 minutes, basting well with the sauce every 10 minutes. Then you’ll have a dish fit for the gods!

I served it with simple grilled chicken filets (recipe to follow), grilled bimi and some baked potatoes to soak up the amazing gravy. @ottolenghi you did it again!

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Slowcooker Bolognese Sauce with Conchiglioni Pasta

Slowcooker Bolognese Sauce with Conchiglioni Pasta

2 important things to know:

Number 1: if there’s one thing you have to try making in your slowcooker it’s Bolognese sauce. Slowly cooked on the lowest setting for 6 hours. The house smells amazing and wow, such depth of flavour. I don’t know why I haven’t tried this before!

Number 2: Move over spaghetti! Conchiglioni pasta is the best pasta for this. The big shells fill up with the sauce creating little parcels of goodness, oozing with sauce, a sprinkle of parmesan and some torn fresh basil.

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Charred Romaine Lettuce with Burrata, Sundried Tom

Charred Romaine Lettuce with Burrata, Sundried Tomatoes, Pinenuts, Basil and a Simple Vinaigrette

I love it when you think you have nothing really in house to make a meal from and then it turns out you have all the ingredients to make something amazing. Ok granted, I don’t always have burrata just randomly lying around in the fridge, but I did forget about it, so it came as a surprise.

The rest are pretty much staple ingredients, always good to have lying around!

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Salad Niçoise-esque from Leftovers Leftover panz

Salad Niçoise-esque from Leftovers

Leftover panzanella salad? Add a can of tuna, a soft boiled egg and some steamed beans and you’ve got a totally different salad using most of the same ingredients and using up some leftover veggies from the fridge. Love it!

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Chickpea Panzanella with Crispy Fried Parmesan Cou

Chickpea Panzanella with Crispy Fried Parmesan Courgette Slices

Panzanella for me is all about contrast in texture and flavours. Crunchy croutons just starting to soak up the tangy, salty and slightly sweet tomato salad juices. Flavoured with some freshly torn basil and oregano leaves, yum. Topped with creamy burrata and crispy courgette, even better!

The whole dish doesn’t really need a recipe, just keep on tasting and adjusting to your liking.

Main ingredients: Crunchy croutons fresh from the oven, finely chopped red onion or shallot, halved cherry tomatoes.

Basic dressing: red wine vinegar, olive oil and the juices seeping out of the tomatoes.

Extra flavouring: Pepper, salt, freshly torn basil, dried or fresh oregano and if you like some lemon zest, because, why not?

Extra ingredients (optional): finley chopped celery, chickpeas, olives, red peppers

Topping: Creamy burrata

Side: Crispy fried courgette. Slice courgette in ± 1 cm slices. Dust in plain flour, dip in egg wash and then coat with seasoned parmesan bread crumbs. Fry in a good layer of olive oil until browned and cripsy.

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Nduya Cannelini Stew To be honest I had never hea

Nduya Cannelini Stew

To be honest I had never heard of Nduya before, it’s a spicy Italian soft and spreadable sausage. I’m pretty sure I’ve had it before, on pizza I think, but never knew what it was. Soooo good.

Wow that packs a punch, the sausage meat pretty much dissolves and oozes it’s flavour into the stew ;) Mop up the juices with some fresh crusty bread and I promise you’ll go back for seconds.

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Char Siu Chicken with Hoisin Bok Choy Hmmmm, char

Char Siu Chicken with Hoisin Bok Choy

Hmmmm, charred & grilled char siu chicken thighs with yummy bok choy sautéed in a garlic and hoisin sauce. I marinated the chicken for a few hours in a mix of light and dark soy sauce, oysters sauce, 5-spice powder, white pepper, honey and sherry (in lack of Chines Shaoxing wine). 30 minutes marinating will do as well.

In the time that it took to cook the rice (8 minutes boiling, 8 minutes steaming) I grilled the chicken in a cast iron skillet and sautéed the bok choy in a separate large skillet. All in all it was on the table within 20 minutes and definitely tasted like the real deal!

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Roasted Beets, Smoked Mackerel, Pickled Cucumber,

Roasted Beets, Smoked Mackerel, Pickled Cucumber, Soft Boiled Egg, Crispy Roasted Potatoes and a Drizzle of Reduced Balsamico

This might look like a lot of work but actually it’s a breeze to make. The only actual cooking needed is roasting the potatoes, and let’s be honest, most of that is just waiting until they’re done.

Pickled cucumber: 2 minutes. Ribbon the cucumber with a vegetable peeler, add a good glug of white vinegar and some caster sugar and let steep until rwady to serve.

Beets: 3 minutes. Storebought ready cooked beets, all you need to do is slice them.

Mackerel: 2 - 5 minutes. You can either do super easy and use smoked mackerel filets, already deboned. Or take a few extra minutes and use a whole mackerel and carefully debone it. I like this 2nd option best, but have also done the first option when in a hurry.

Eggs: 8 minutes. Boil for 6.5 minutes, rinse under cold water and peel.

Potatoes: 40 minutes. Par boil for 10 minutes, spread out over a baking tray and squash with a fork. Coat in olive oil and season. Bake for 25 minutes at 220°C. If you’re really in a time squeeze, just boil the potatoes for 20 minutes until done. Also delicious.

To serve: a drizzle of reduced balsamic vinegar, pine nuts and freshly torn basil (I forgot to photograph these 2 along with the dish, but super yummy together).

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