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Pasta e Fagioli from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

An easy and delicious soup. I used lardons for the meat. We were thinking that chicken sausages would be good, saucisse de volaille or merguez de volaille, cut in quarters lenghtwise, then into little... read more >

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Ken Hom Travels with a Hot Wok

By Ken Hom
BBC Books - 1997

I made more-or-less a whole recipe with 300g of shrimp (2/3 of what was asked). Although I cut the salt in half, the shrimp were still too salty.

Otherwise, this was very tasty. I did have the urge to stick toothpicks in the shrimp and serve them around as munchies for an apéro. Don't know why I thought a sauce would magically appear.

We squeezed on lemon juice, rather than using it a dipping sauce.

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Delicious. Easy and fairly fast. My thighs sat around a bit, because it was the first bit of dinner I started, but that might not be necessary.

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I've made this a couple of times and we like it a lot. It's easy to assemble. You can prep the cukes&zukes and two small groups of seasonings, then finish the dish in less than 10 easy minutes.

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