I love a good keema, I’ve cooked many keema’s. Full of intense flavour and a wonderful low cost dish. A traditional street food dish of Indian and chicken keema pav is one of the best you can get. A proper comfort food dish for the whole family. I’ve cooked the vegetable version a number of…
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Miso cod ramen 🍜 Heavenly ❤️
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, I’ve cooked quite a number of dishes which I desperately need to post about, best to start with a simple dish which shouldn’t take too much time to write up about. Miso cod ramen – I love a ramen, the clean flavoursome broth is so rewarding and fulfilling….
Yu Siang shredded chicken & aubergine served with jasmine rice ❤️
To celebrate the Chinese New Year I’ve now for a number of years cooked a dish that’s new to me. To celebrate the year of the snake again I turned to a recipe from Ching-He Huang & Ken Hom. I picked this cook book up in a second hand charity shop. This book is a…
Full English breakfast pie 👍🏻
Who doesn’t love a pie ? Who doesn’t love a full English breakfast ? Why not combine the two together ?? Well, this superb recipe from The Hairy Bikers does just that !! This is a brilliant recipe using wonderful ingredients. This dish was a lot of fun to create. I’m al says learning about…
Broccoli Pakora’s
This is a simple and quick recipe for a beautiful starter or side dish. I was cooking two very different chicken curry dishes for an evening in with friends. I thought that ‘chicken pakoras’ would just be too much chicken to indulge on so I came up with this alternative – Broccoli pakoras….and wow!!!! Simple…
Lamb bhuna – alternative method which is stunning !!
I love this dish. Lamb full stop in a curry is sensational but this thick sauce is another level – even better that it’s so easy to make !!!! This again is a different method to your traditional westernised takeaway / restaurant method. I’m not using a pre-made Indian base sauce, I’m making it as…
Smoked mackerel pâté – a Christmas must 👍🏻
This my friends is a wonderful celebration of a fish that nowadays is underused! The humble mackerel. This simple recipe combines beautiful everyday ingredients to create a bobby dazzler of a dish which is perfect as a starter for Christmas Day or as a nibble in the evening when you’re stuffed due to the over…
Egg curry 👌🏻
I first discovered egg curry’s when I removed meat from my diet. At the time I substituted meat with many different types of vegetables, paneer and eggs plus being pescatarian I ate many varieties of fish. Egg curry’s are staple dishes in India for many reasons. Another reason I like this dish is because a…
Chicken jalfrezi – simple and easy family favourite ❤️
Who doesn’t love a jalfrezi ?? This cooking method is different from the westernised restaurants and takeaways as I’m using no base sauce. You make and create the sauce as you make the dish. This version was again cooked to celebrate National Curry Week at the start of October. The beauty of this dish is…
Bicol Express – Filipino curry !
This dish was stunning! Another dish I’d cooked for National Curry Week. Only slight downside was the shrimp paste I used. The shrimp paste was brought back from Singapore by a friend who was working out there with JLR. It was stronger than anything I’d previously used and the smell hung around for days…..lesson learnt!!…