Asklemmy

I make this copycat ravioli from a restaurant I love.

Find some butternut squash or pumpkin stuffed ravioli. Fresh sage. Aleppo chili spice, some jumbo shrimp, and garlic mince or chopped fresh (like 3-4 bulbs).

Melt butter in your pan, fry up the sage. Set aside.

Boil your water for pasta. More butter to pan, cook the shrimp. When both sides are pink it's done, don't turn them to rubber by over cooking. Set aside and rinse out your pan.

Boil the pasta and when it's half done, more butter in the pan. Medium to high heat, it's called brown butter sauce. You stir and let the butter fry until frothy. Add garlic and Aleppo at the end. I sometimes add a dab of truffle oil at the end too, depending on taste and if I have it.

Drain pasta and stir in sauce. Plate, and top with shrimp and sage. Tiny pinch of truffle salt on top if you've got it, or pink salt if not.

It's fucking delicious.

Smores

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Easier on a gas than with embers as I tried the latter for first time and was quite challenging.

Just ask first if everybody is ok throwing in rabbit or chicken, not everyone is fond of rabbit.

Beef Wellington with a red wine sauce, if I have money to blow. If not, either Mongolian Beef, Gumbo, or any number of other things, depending upon the person.

Chicken schnitzel. Can’t really mess it up and it’s always good.

Chicken Tikka with a Carrot Biryani. You marinade the chicken overnight for all the flavour and then pan sear it for a few minutes and oven in a covered dish for 25. The biryani is basically just garlic, chilli, onion and grated carrot with some turmeric and garam massala, with rice dumped in. Frozen peas and fresh coriander optional.

Both take about 30 mins cook time, prep can all be done beforehand, always turns out nicely and gets compliments.

A combination of these two recipes with some tweaks. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/carrot-biriyani https://butteroverbae.com/chicken-tikka-recipe/

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Spaghetti with Salmon.

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Put some meat on the grill. Never disappoints.

Big veggie omelet.

Cut up 2 tomatoes, 1 bell pepper, several stalks of asparagus, and half an onion into 1-inch cubes. Place in a deep frying pan, add salt & pepper, a little bit of oil, some butter, and cook them on stove top on low heat for ~5 min until all the veggies are soft and turning dark (especially asparagus.)

While the veggies are cooking, take a bowl, add 7 or 8 eggs, more salt and pepper, 1/4 cup of milk, 1 tbsp of whipped cream (optional), 1 tsp crushed garlic. Add seasoning like dried oregano and parsley, and whisk everything together.

Add the egg mix to the pan, mix well with veggies, raise the heat to high, don't mix it any more. Cook until the mix begins to rise, and the eggs on the to start bubbling. Then cover with a thin layer of shredded cheese on top.

Turn on the oven to the "broil" setting. When the cheese begins to melt, place the pan inside the oven on the middle rack. Broil for ~5 min, until the cheese starts turning light-brown. Turn the oven off, take the pan out, serve immediately.