The Chinese food ‘education’ continues. Chinese ‘takeaway’ chicken chow mein – simples ! One of the easiest ‘fakeaway’ dishes you’ll ever make utilising 3 simple cooking methods. Ingredients-1½ tbsp vegetable oil½ small onion, sliced & 1/2 a carrot thinly sliced2 pre-prepared poached chicken breasts¼ tsp salt2 nests of pre-prepared noodles1 tbsp dark soy sauce1 tbsp…
Category: home cooking
Chinese chicken & sweetcorn soup
One of the all time favourite starters in Chinese restaurants and takeaways and it’s mine!! Again, the recipe is taken from the new book from Chin & Choo Taylor. One of the best things about this…..made it under 10 minutes after getting in from karate…..also, I used up the Sunday roast left overs ❤️ Ingredients…
‘General Tso’s Chicken ❤️
So, the new Chinese cooking revolution has started. Craving education and I’ve found the book to do so. I’ve been following Chin & Choo Taylor on social media for a while. I love their attitude towards cooking, making it fun and look simple whilst stripping back cooking to educate everyone how to make our favourite…
‘Chicken 65’
‘Chicken 65’ is a popular starter in most Indian restaurants plus in India. My youngest son asked me to make it as it’s his favourite dish when we eat out at our family favourite Indian restaurant in Hinckley called 7H Spices. He loves the dish that much, he has had it as a starter for…
Tandoori beer can chicken
This is a dish I’ve wanted to cook for a while, and no better time to cook it on Father’s Day. Nice to put some music on and step into the kitchen to chill out and shut off. The dish itself was very easy to make, getting a chicken to stand up in the oven…
Mushroom tikka masala with lemon basmati rice ❤️
This beautiful and simple dish takes you to another place. The more I understand Indian cooking the more I swing to vegetarian dishes. Yes, before the cooking police jump on the band wagon and tell me a tikka masala is not a traditional Indian dish….calm down. It’s a beautiful dish using simple ingredients which are…
Lahore fish stew ❤️
Yes I know……it’s been too long since I’ve posted. Life in 2026 has thrown so many curve balls it’s unreal, and to be honest, I wouldn’t know where to start listing them all. Something for certain, no matter what has been thrown in my direction, food has remained my ‘go to’ place for relaxation &…
Cod with spiced cabbage
I love discovering new dishes! This dish was like ‘wow’ !! So much flavour it’s unreal, again with very few ingredients, as they say – ‘less is more’. The recipe is a modified version of a dish by ‘Mother India’ whom I discovered during a work trip to Glasgow. The original recipe used halibut, but…
Crab meat over broccoli – Regional dish from Guangdong 🇨🇳
A simple yet stunning dish made with everyday supermarket ingredients. This beautiful dish is a regional dish which originates from Guangdong in China and it is exactly what it says. A beautiful sauce mixed with crab meat and finished off the heat with a whisked egg white which thickens and holds the sauce together is…
Spinach meatball curry
Spinach meatball curry ❤️ – recipe taken from ‘30 minute Mowgli’. Anyone who knows me knows that I love the chain Mowgli. Everything about the chain, recipes, ethos & brand values fascinates me. I love recreating their dishes and recipes all written up by Nisha Katona who dream of opening this restaurant became a reality…
