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Also butter.

1 tbsp olive oil cannot be missed.

Never forget the 1 tbsp of olive oil. Never.

I add the oil from sundried tomatos, but couscous needs something even if it's a stock cube lobbed in.

Oh yeh I had all sorts of veg, chicken, feta, and olive oil in with it, but as an actual bulk food, it's shite.

Put it in the blender, let it rest for a few days and use it as a glue for your broken expectations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IT6WmMzyL8

Basically doing this one I suppose. Slightly dubious about generating decent crackling when the oven will be so full of moisture from all the beer, but I am willing to be converted...

Is that you in the video? Looks amazing!
You might get crackling

Seafood feast tonight:

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Not me in the video i'm afraid. Much too professional!

brought duck legs, since they were half the price of duck breast.
marinated duck legs in mixture of soy sauce, golden syrup, chillies, garlic , seasoned with black pepper and salt,
pan roasted, then put into pot with lentils, carrots, leek and onion, used the duck roasting pan to roast some sliced potatoes.
used the left over marinade and some of the duck fat to fry green beans in.

Nice and hearty sunday dinner, for not much at all..

mention of cous cous above, has convinced me to make something lighter for dinner, and cous cous is so easy to do, just add fried prawns...

That sounds very north African...

^^ Sounds awesome.

I make cous cous with the juice from roasted vegetables; butternut squash, carrot, red pepper, onion, rosemary, garlic, chilli... Cover the veggies as they're roasting and you'll get lots of lovely stock, obvs drizzle loads of olive oil on beforehand as well... It's delicious... Some slow cooked lamb on the side would make it even more amazing... #imho

Do you enjoy eating plain rice?

tell me who doesn't and I'll show you a liar.

Best meal ever

Just plain rice. Nothing but plain white rice. Pure carb and high glycemic index.....

Last night I made butter chicken. The rice with dish was cooked with tumeric powder, a couple of cloves and green cardamon pods.

Just accidentally stuffed myself with pancakes. I had some eggs which needed using up, but I was going to cook the pancakes and then stick them in the fridge while I thought about what to stuff them with.
I seem to have eaten the lot. I feel a bit ill.

Roasted couple of short ribs for 6 hours at 100c, left in fridge overnight. Stripped meat off and cooked in coconut milk and massaman curry paste for 30 minutes. Ace

Lotsa slow cooking going on, must be the weather! Chicken tagine tonight :-)

Using up the last of the duck eggs. I thought I'd go through the fridge and do a big spanish-ish omelette.
Veg ingredients in frying pan, going nicely. Eggs straight into pan, because I thought "less washing up, no need to whisk them first".
All going swimmingly until I crack the final egg on top and its a fertilized one, yolk ok but albumen completely pink.
I have to say it tastes fine, and it's probably some kind of delicacy in the far east somewhere, but it was a bit of a shock.

it is, Vietnamese fetal duck eggs (hột vịt lộn)
don't google it if you have a weak stomach....

Mum and Dad going away for a long weekend, so I'm returning to the ancestral pile to feed the cats and luxuriate in non-londonness for a few days.
I have a weekend alone with an Aga. It's going to be awesome.

Well, as alone as you can ever get with three cats...

Hateful things, Agas.

I once cooked a roast dinner for 10 in an Aga. It took about a month to crisp the potatoes.