Vietnamese Orange Chicken with Lemongrass

Celebrate this year’s Lunar New Year with homemade Gà Sốt Cam – a simple, tasty low-cost Vietnamese dish of delicious orange chicken with fragrant lemongrass.
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Wok Cooking with a Big Green Egg

I relish a challenge. Recently I cooked a Vietnamese meal using a wok in our kitchen. My wife said “that’s something you probably couldn’t cook using a Big Green Egg.”

Challenge accepted! Find out how to do wok cooking on a Big Green Egg with this simple guide.
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Beef Tagliata

At a recent dinner party, we were served Beef Tagliata. An Italian dish of slices of rare steak with shaved Parmesan cheese and rocket salad, it is accompanied by a dressing with rosemary, garlic and lemon. And it was wonderful.

I was so impressed that I had to try making it at home. Served with a bottle of Fitou, this was (and still is) a meal to remember.
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Smoked Tomato, Aubergine and Mushroom Pizza

My mother visited us, announcing she was on a vegetarian diet. She also wanted to see our Big Green Eggs that she’d heard so much about. So we made a delicious vegetarian pizza topped with her favourite herbaceous plants … smoked tomato, aubergine and mushrooms.

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