Honey roasted tandoori chicken 👍🏻

This is a fantastic dish to introduce eating back outside. Love eating outside full stop. This dish is perfect for the bbq, however, on this occasion I cooked it inside whilst cooking other meats on the bbq. This dish requires two separate marinades, other than that, the oven will do the rest. Both the marinades…

Keema Pav ❤️

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…

The joy of a Panna Cotta…..

Panna cotta is my favourite desert. I had it for the first time at The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, Rick Steins famous flagship restaurant which is celebrating 50 years of service this year….crazy to think an eating establishment have been trading for 50 years. Full credit to the whole team at Steins for achieving this…

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…

Beef Curry Hotpot – A New Years Eve’s delight !

This was an absolute delight to make and the flavours made it even better which made this the perfect dish for New Year’s Eve. This dish was taken from the last book from The Hairy Bikers which was in the process of being written as Dave Myers sadly passed away. Having received the book as…

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…