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Brendan Brendan
September 14, 2025
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Georgian Ostri

Beef needs to be the right cut to become tender. Otherwise braise for 4 hours. Maybe no potatoes cause it makes the gravy too starchy. More oil for better flavour.

Ingredients

  • 1kg Beef

  • 100g Rice

  • Georgian Ostri spices 1 tbsp each

  • Garlic

  • Onion

  • Pepper

  • Coriander

  • Garlic

Directions

  1. Marinate beef in spices, salt, sugar, oil

  2. Chop veggies

  3. Sear beef off in hot pot, optionally with potatoes

  4. Add water and bring to boil, lower and simmer for upwards of 5 hours

  5. After beef is pull-apart tender, take off heat

  6. Meanwhile stir-fry vegetables with tomato paste and spices, deglaze with wine

  7. Mix vegetables into beef stock

  8. Garnish with coriander and fresh garlic.

Sourdough loaf

Hello Jike

Ingredients

  • 100g AP flour
  • 280g bread flour
  • 80g wholewheat flour
  • 100g AP flour
  • 360g water
  • 36g starter
  • 20g honey
  • 10g salt
  • 1tsp yeast

Optional:

  • 60g linseed/grains
  • 1tsp bread improver

Directions

  1. Mix all flours and salt together

  2. add 320g water to a mixing bowl and stir in your starter until as dissolved as possible

  3. add honey and yeast to this mixture, stir well, let yeast activate for 5 minutes

  4. add all the flour to the wet stuff and begin to mix until no dry lumps left. As you go, add water as necessary up till the maximum of 360g. Dough should be sticky and loose but not like pancake batter.

  5. If adding seeds or any other dry addins, soak them in equal weight of warm water.

  6. scrape dough into a rough shaggy ball at the bottom of the bowl and cover with a damp towel, rest for 20 minutes. Take note of the current time, this is your start time.

  7. After 20 minutes, come back and stretch and fold your dough to give it structure. place back into bowl and cover for 40 minutes.

  8. After 40 minutes, dump dough out onto a clean counter top (No flour!) and stretch the dough as wide as possible into a big sheet See here. Here is where you can sprinkle your addons. Laminate the dough and form into a tight dough ball. Oil your bowl and place dough back inside. If in Singapore put bowl into fridge.

  9. After 30 minutes, take dough out and leave on counter top for 45 minutes. Basically repeat this for a total of 6 hours from your start time. 30 minutes in the fridge, 45 out. After the end of every 45 minute out period, stretch and fold your dough to give the ball structure.

  10. After 6 hours, flour your working surface, scrape out your dough and divide into 2 balls. fold your dough and place in a banneton to proof. Spray water, score, and bake at 220 C covered for 30 minutes, then uncover and bake at 190 until done.

Kimchi

Ingredients

In a pot:

  • 1/4 cup glutinous rice flour
  • 2 cups water

To blend:

  • 6 garlic
  • 3/4 thumb ginger
  • 1/3 cup dashi
  • 1/4 onion
  • 1/2 korean pear

Vegetables for addin:

  • 1 carrot
  • 1 cucumber
  • bunch of garlic shoots

Other:

  • 1/4 cup fish sauce
  • 1.5 cup gochugaru
  • 1 cabbage head

Directions

  1. Prepare cabbage head and salt, leaving to soak for min 2 hours best overnight
  2. Chiffonade all vegetables
  3. Blend all blending ingredients together
  4. in a pot over low heat stir rice flour and water until paste thickens, leave to cool
  5. rinse cabbage heads, leave to drip dry
  6. in a large bowl mix blended ingredients, fish sauce, gochugaru, and flour paste. You should get a thick red mixture.
  7. slather your cabbage leaves in the bowl with the paste.
  8. place in airtight container, leave to ferment outside for 1-2 days then into fridge.