Malaysian Jahor Laksa garnised with cucumber and chilli

Since visiting Tampopo restaurant I’ve wanted to learn how to make my own laksa, a kind of curry spiced soup with noodles. Laksa originally refers to the noodles used, but over time has come to mean the soup. I took this recipe from my 1950′s recipe book, although I’ve tweaked it a fair bit.

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Lay the table is celebrating its one year anniversary! I can hardly believe a whole year has flown by since I first began blogging about food.

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Pimm's No.1 Cup-cakes

I love the refreshing blend of fruits that you get in Pimm’s: strawberry, cucumber, orange and mint. I’ve been thinking about how best to combine all the flavours into a cupcake and this is the result. The buttercreams all work really well, none of them overpowered each other including the cucumber which I thought would be awful because it’s quite watery.

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It is with pleasure that I bring you a selection of the week’s highlights from our Norfolk trip….the best restaurants, kitchenware haunts and all things food.

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Butter Norfolk samphire with garlic lemon and cracked black pepper

If you haven’t tried samphire before, I can only describe the texture as like spaghetti, it’s very smooth and salty to boot. Here’s my recipe with a pinch more flavour, but it’s still good with plain ol’ butter.

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