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Slow cook duck breast for X'mas / Magret de canard pour Noël

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Home and family is the place where the warmest place to stay. Cooking is one of the element that could united the family :) I love to cook a good food at home, and we love to share to our family or sometimes our closest friends. Finally X'mas and we need to cook!. That time was different because I invited Judith an old friend from Indonesia together with our small family. Honestly I decided to made the dinner at once because I need to share the time with the person from Indonesia well her present somehow healed my solitude. Ok so a day before we have made a quick decision, we went to the grocery and we found a breast of duck, small potatoes, beet, and zucchini. Vincent asked me whether we should take something else. At that time I was thinking other things, well then we were thinking that, it was enough.  So I've cooked the breast at "low temperature" and served with gravy zucchini, small potatoes (pommes grenailles) and poured with beet sauce.. how? let'...
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TEPPANYAKI

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As usual, every year in the summer all of the people in Europe surely run out from home or directly set up their table on their garden to eat outdoor. Honestly, really living in Europe for us SUN is the new GOD :p. I was thinking “what kind of food that we are going to eat”. Then I finally found that   teppanyaki   style of eat would suit best for us. I would like to share you that this one is the real good one.   Teppanyaki   is a style of Japanese cuisine that normally uses an iron griddle to cook a food. I just know that the word   teppanyaki   derived from   teppan   which means iron plate, and yaki means grilled, broiled, or pan-fried. Like ordinary people in Japan,   teppanyaki   refers to dishes cooked using an iron plate, including steak, shrimp. If you look down those photos, fortunately at the time I kept the banana leaf so I could use it to decorate my white table, well As I am Indonesian and I was closely live with ba...
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