The spec-taco-lar ways of using food.

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January 2025
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Around 4000 years ago, during Ancient Babylon, the oldest-known recipes to have been discovered was written and included things such as stews and how to make them. Nowadays, it is estimated for billions of recipes to exist, and many websites now are dedicated to recipes, which can make it hard to separate the good and easy ones from the bad ones. All the following recipes are easy to make, delicious for all three meals and have helpful information for where to get prepared to cook or bake the best food of your life.

Recipes

Cooking

  1. Char Siu (Chinese BBQ Pork)

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https://redhousespice.com/char-siu-chinese-bbq-pork/

Char Siu, also known as Chinese BBQ Pork or Siu Mei, is a pork-ticularly flavourful Cantonese dish made to enjoy it by itself but can be used in buns or in noodle dishes and stir fries. It is a type of roasted pork with the name “Char Siu” meaning “fork roasted”, from the traditional cooking method.

Ingredients:

  • Char Siu sauce
  • Oyster sauce
  • Light soy sauce
  • Chinese five-spice powder
  • Garlic and ginger

Where to find these:

  • Char Siu sauce, Chinese five-spice powder, oyster sauce – can be found in asian supermarkets such as Asia Market or WeMart

Baking

  1. Apple Cake

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https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8358/apple-cake-iv/

A classic dessert using apple as one of the main ingredients and many different varieties of this cake exists in different countries all around the world. A delicious recipe where the more ingredients mean more flavour and more un-peel-ievable!

Ingredients:

  • Apples (peeled, cored, sliced)
  • All-purpose flour
  • Salt
  • Ground cinnamon
  • Baking powder
  • Eggs
  • White sugar
  • Vegetable oil
  • Vanilla oil
  • Chopped walnuts

Where to find these:

  • All can be found in most local supermarkets
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