Warming stew:Lentejas

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Its pouring with rain today in London making the autumn evening dark even sooner…whats needed is a warming stew.

I’ve made this one a few times but the first time I did was back in early 2010 when the lovely people at Orce Serrano Hams sent me some of their chorizo and morcilla to try. This dish adapted from the Moro cookbook seemed the perfect way to try them out.

It’s pretty easy and quite and of course you can use chorizo and black pudding sourced in the UK but the Orce morcilla was something truly special,well worth [...]

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November 3rd,2011 | Tags:,,,,,,,,, | Category:autumn,country/region,easy,pork,product,recipe ideas,seasonal,soup/stew,spanish,spicy,winter | 4 comments

Panang Gai (dry chicken curry)

Panang Gai,dry chicken curry

At the end of March I went off to the depths of Suffolk to meet Veronica from Leaf House. She’d asked me to come and visit to talk about how I might be able to help her as she switched the focus of her business. She also promised to make me a curry for lunch. We had a great day chatting business stuff and I can report that the curry was A-Mazing.

So I made sure I got the recipe. I’ve made it twice so far and it really is simple and gorgeous. Don’t be put off by the long [...]

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June 13th,2011 | Tags:,,,, | Category:asian,chicken,country/region,leftovers,recipe ideas,spicy,thai | 2 comments

Making paneer

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I LOVE cooking curry,its so much better when you make it yourself. And it also means you can use an ingredient I don’t think you see enough of in menus and that’s paneer.

Better still paneer is really easy to make yourself so you can feel super smug home-made curry AND home-made paneer.

Panner and whey

So last time I fancied curry I decided I’d do some paneer. I got a bargain carton of proper whole milk in the supermarket reductions and I was away.

Paneer (makes enough for 1 main dish curry for 2-4 depending on what [...]

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May 9th,2011 | Tags:,,,,, | Category:asian,baking,bread,bread making,cheese,cheese making,country/region,indian,recipe ideas,spicy,techniques,vegetarian | 5 comments

Soups and Stocks

Roasted root vegetable soup with cheese

Although spring definitely feels like it might be on the way some days are still pretty cold and so a warming soup is just what’s needed,here’s some thoughts on soup I wrote for Francoise Murat &Associates newsletter in January. I think I might just have soup for lunch tomorrow.

January is a funny month. For some people it feels slow and difficult,winter is most definitely with us,its cold and its dark,summer seems such a long way off whichever way you look at it. For others it’s a chance to think afresh of a new year [...]

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February 26th,2011 | Tags:,,,, | Category:asian,autumn,british,easy,english,leftovers,light/lunch,making stock,pork,recipe ideas,seasonal,soup/stew,spicy,vegetables,winter | 3 comments

Spicy sour green pickles

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So the tomatoes should have been ripe ages ago but mine still look like this:

Which means I’ll be making batches of green pickles again this year. But that’s okay because I rather like the green pickles. I made them first with under ripe plums that I collected in deepest Suffolk with Vivia of Grethic’s Grethica. She also tracked down some recipes which she posted links to here. Its worth watching the you tube clips because they are a bit bonkers but to make it a bit easier I’ve given the recipe the way I did it [...]

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September 26th,2010 | Tags:,,,,,, | Category:autumn,country/region,garden,indian,preserves,preserving,recipe ideas,seasonal,spicy,summer,techniques,vegetables | 8 comments

Fresh from the oven:Turkish Pide

Turkish pide and spicy kebab

I’ve been a bit remiss on contributing to the Fresh from the Oven challenges of late,I missed out on doing croissants and pizza,both things I really fancied trying. Well i did do the pizza but I forgot to blog in in time,oops!

So this month I got well ahead of myself and made the challenge almost week for the deadline instead of on the day!

The bread we baked was Turkish Pide and the challenge was hosted by Mrs Ergul.

I had a bit of fun with the US measurements getting muddled and almost using a [...]

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June 28th,2010 | Tags:,,,,,,,,, | Category:baking,beef,blogging,bread,bread making,country/region,easy,fresh from the oven challenge,recipe ideas,spicy,techniques,turkish | 6 comments

Fresh from the oven –buns,curry buns

Last month I schlepped in right at the last minute with my Fresh from the oven challenge,this month I did better – hey I was there a whole week before the deadline baking away. How organised and complaint of me. Erm,well,maybe. Those who know me well know that doing what I’m told when I’m told is something I have mastered the art of mostly avoiding. So this month instead of taking the deadline to the wire I thought I’d ignore some of the very specific instructions and freeform the recipe a bit even though it wasn’t something [...]

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September 27th,2009 | Tags:,, | Category:baking,bread,bread making,indian,lamb,leftovers,recipe ideas,spicy,techniques | 13 comments
 
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