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…
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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…
Sri Lankan prawn curry ❤️
Hello my friends. It’s been a while I know. I’ve not felt like writing up the cooking I’ve been doing but I know I should. No matter what’s going on in my life, I’ve always found the writing of my food therapeutic which is why I started the page in the first place…..so here goes….
Chicken saag karahi
A beautiful and stunning plus simple dish to make…..however…..the dish is named so because of the pan it’s cooked in…..a karahi pan. If you you don’t have one of these traditional Indian cast iron pans, well my friends with just be a chicken saag 😀. The dish is named after the pan. The karahi pan…
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…
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!!…
Outstanding cauliflower cheese
This was my first attempt at cauliflower cheese as I continue to develop my cooking knowledge and improve on basic skills. It was the perfect addition to which was already a wonderful Sunday roast. I’ve always loved making a basic white sauce then expanding it to multiple dishes. This one though went a little further….
Homemade pizza’s….I’m addicted ❤️
Recently I’ve been inspired with ‘home baking’. As I’ve previously mentioned I’ve always been put off as I’ve always thought it was too much phaff using precise measurements etc. but having met and purchased Rick Stein’s new cook book due to the simplicity of the recipes I now have a different view. I’ve already cooked…
Salsiccia de maiale e mele con rigatoni – my first created & written pasta recipe ❤️
This….is my first written and created pasta recipe. Using flavours & ingredients which are cupboard essentials in my house. Quite proud of this and the fact it tasted really good shows my I’m on the right path. Any dish written in Italian sounds better, even if it is just pork and apple sausage meat with…
My beautiful cottage pie !
I’ve recently started to challenge myself to put my spin on classic dishes. Understand the basics better then recreate with my twist. Could be anything from baking, to roasting or beautiful home cooking like this dish. Again, this dish was made from scratch after walking in from work. I’m making this point as I often…