Eddoe & Coconut Curry
My local supermarket has gone all exotic lately, stocking more unusual vegetables than the bog-standard potatoes, carrots and cabbages. Id never heard of dudhi, cassava, chayote, and this one, eddoes …
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Cauliflower Cheese
This is fantastic served with roast beef for a Sunday roast. Check out my recipe for the Ultimate Roast Beef here. Cauliflower florets (as many as you need)50g butter50g …
Thai Marinated Grilled Vegetables
This is a fantastic accompaniment to my Thai pork burger or spicy lamb. Serves 4 3 mixed peppers, deseeded and chopped into chunks2 courgettes, cut into thick batonsBunch of …
Vegetable Biryani made with Smoked Balti Masala
The perfect storm of Meat-Free Monday meets National Curry Week is upon us and so Ive concocted this twist on the classic Vegetable Biryani by using The Curry Guys Smoked …
Baked Portobello Mushrooms with Barbers Cheddar & Onion Stuffing
As a cheese fiend, Ive been keen to get my hands on some Barbers 1833 Vintage Reserve Cheddar ever since in won last years gold medal at the World Cheese …
Nigella Lawsons Cold-Oil Chips are they better?
I have raved about the virtues of Heston Blumenthals thrice-cooked chips many times on this blog. The method of parboiling the potatoes, then frying them to drive out the moisture, …
Sous Vide Bavette Steak with Hoi Sin Noodles and Pak Choy
Ive called this cut of meat by its French name, Bavette, because it sounds sexier than flank or skirt its English titles. Its an incredibly tough piece of meat, from …
Rapeseed Chilli Oil Chicken with Rapeseed Mayo Potato Salad
Being an altruistic sort, little gives me more pleasure than to plug the wares of small producers but only if those products cut muster. Theres no point posting negative …
A Glut of Garlic? Make Garlic Confit
I returned from our family holiday in France recently with a string of garlic bulbs bought from an artisan market. These were young bulbs, still a bit green at the …
Woo-hoo! Make these spooky Halloween Pizzas with Cheestrings
Ive been sent some Cheese and Tomato Cheestrings and Cheese Spaghetti for the kids and as its Halloween AND half-term I got them involved in making these cheesy-stringy-spooky pizzas. As …