‘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…

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…

Bhindi Aloo Dhabi – (okra and potatoes )❤️

This is a new dish for me on many levels. New as in I’d never attempted it and new as in I’d never eaten okra ❤️. I was inspired to find a recipe and create it after hearing stories from a work colleague about it when he was at home in Indian. I could hear…

Chana gosht ❤️ – lentils & lamb

Two of my favourite ingredients in a single dish, especially in a curry. I love lamb in any curry dish. I think the lamb meat, any cut, holds onto spices better than any other meat. Love a slow cooked lamb dish when the meat flakes apart into the curry. Then there is my favourite side…

Chicken pad Thai ❤️

New dish for me, recipe taken from Rick Steins Asian Odyssey cook book.I’ve always been put off from making this dish, however, I’m not too sure why !!3/4’s of the time is spent doing the prep….the cooking is the quick and simple part.Packed with flavours, however, I did reduce the Thai fish sauce that was…