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Category Archives: homecooking

prawns galore!

26 Thursday Nov 2020

Posted by azahar in home, homecooking

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prawns galoreI blame Sledpress.

A week or so ago she was telling me about waiting for a big frozen shrimp delivery (she is usually vegetarian but has made an exception for the occasional shrimp protein boost) and it got me thinking. I almost never buy prawns at the market because most of the time they’ve already been frozen (so you can’t freeze them again). But then I thought that buying already rock solid frozen prawns would be a bit like having a bag of peas in the freezer, ready to just grab a few and throw them into any dish you feel like throwing them into (really, peas are SO GOOD for this).

So I bought a bag of frozen prawns. You can easily cook them from frozen if putting them into something with a sauce, or in a stir-fry, but I felt like breaded fried prawns today, so that meant I had to defrost them and dry them out before covering them with garbanzo flour. And I gotta say, they were great. Like eating prawn popcorn, AND I didn’t have to shell and devein them. So easy, so tasty. I mean of course there are times when only super fresh prawns will do, but for the occasional this and that, I will no longer be without a bag of prawns in my freezer. Thanks Sled!

prawns

caramelised

10 Tuesday Nov 2020

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First ever attempt making caramelised onions. Gotta say, they turned out pretty good. The trick, as everyone on Twitter kept telling me, was cooking low and slow. Bit like cooking spinach though. You start off with a whole whack of stuff and end up with a small bowlful. So what did you do today?

the chicken sharing project

06 Friday Nov 2020

Posted by azahar in azahars kitchen, casa azahar, food & drink, homecooking

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chicken express

Well why not? I have an oven, my friend Peter doesn’t, and so this happened. An agreement whereby every couple of weeks or so during the winter months Peter will purchase a nice free-range chicken at the market and then I will prepare it in different ways using my oven and then we’ll split the bird. Did the first one today and, well, as you can see that IT WAS AMAZING.

It’s a good idea on many levels. We both get to enjoy a well-cooked bird, which of course I could do on my own (since I have an oven) but I mean, how much chicken can one girl eat in a week? This way is win-win. I also give Peter the carcass to make a soup or stew, so that’s a bonus for him, and because he buys the bird that goes towards what I spend on electricity. Looking forward to trying all kinds of new roasted chicken recipes too – I think spatchcocking is coming up next.

NOT a chicken sandwich

19 Wednesday Aug 2020

Posted by azahar in casa azahar, cooking, home, homecooking

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So this was supposed to be a grilled chicken sandwich on crusty bread with grainy dijon and paper-thin raw sweet onion underneath, and piles of chopped romaine and salsa az on top. Never happened. Because when I opened the packet of free-range chicken breasts I’d bought on Monday (expiry date TODAY) there was a… smell. It wasn’t strong, or even particularly unpleasant. It just shouldn’t have been there. And so I got on Twitter and asked what I should do. Meanwhile I started cooking the fuckers, since I had paid for them and, you know, maybe after cooking they’d be fine?

Well can I say? I’ve never had such a response to one simple question on Twitter before. Hours later people are still replying. Who knows? I may start trending!

Bottom line, I cooked them and then tossed them. As my pal Edward pointed out, the chicken might be fine but I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it because I’d be worried about whether it was okay or not, so why go through that. And he was right. So out they went, with me slightly annoyed that I now had extra washing up and that I had wasted perfectly good seasoning and olive oil for nothing.

Had a ham sandwich instead. Actually it was the SAME sandwich, but with sliced ham instead of chicken. And it was actually really good. So the moral of the story is… well nuthin really. It’s Wednesday! What do you want?Β  πŸ˜‰

bouikos galore!

10 Friday Jul 2020

Posted by azahar in casa azahar, home, homecooking, sevilla

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boiukos

What kind of idiot BAKES durning the hottest week of the year?? Um… that would be me. I reckoned once it’s 43ΒΊ the kitchen isn’t about to get any hotter. I’ve been hooked on bouikos since the first time I made them last month, and this was my third attempt. Damn they’re good. Easy to make too. You can find the recipe in my kitchen.Β  πŸ™‚

Azahar’s Kitchen – Bouikos

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