Can I cook Chile Verde?

Tomatillos. anytime

And can Karen cook asparagus tart?

Asparagus spears,early evening

It’s a kind of recipes at dawn this,Chile Verde vs. asparagus tart,one blogger pitched against another. Masterchef without the cameras,or the publicity,or the random commentary,or the…….well almost any of it. Just a bit of fun.

You might remember back in early May I was ‘adopted’ by Karen over at ‘Karen Cooks’. We did a blogo-interview of each other to introduce our very different worlds and in the meantime I’ve been asking Karen lots of questions about food and blogging and incorporating [...]

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June 16th,2009 | Tags:,,,,,,,,,, | Category:pork,recipe ideas,spicy | 6 comments

Tweeting and eating,chilli

Some of you might have noticed that lately I’ve joined up on Twitter and I’ve been having fun seeing what its all about and chatting to like minded foodies,finding their blogs,seeing what people have to say. There’s certainly plenty of food talk going on in the Twitter-sphere.

Yesterday there emerged a series of tweets about making chilli. Now I love chilli but I haven’t made any for a good few months and as it was damp,drizzly day I decided maybe chilli was what was needed. We tweeted a bit about whether beans are authentic or not,which [...]

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April 18th,2009 | Tags:,,,, | Category:beef,beer,blogging,drinks,recipe ideas,spicy | Leave a comment

Spicy chickpea pancakes

When it came to deciding what to have for dinner on Saturday there was quite a bit of negotiating to be done – I fancied doing a curry but hubby gets to have what he tells me is a really good take out curry once a week for his lunch so was much less keen. As we wandered up and down the aisles in the local Waitrose pondering our choices I knew that time spent in a shop would take its toll and that if I kept my nerve he’d go with the curry idea in the end…..and so [...]

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April 7th,2009 | Tags:,,,,, | Category:recipe ideas,spicy,vegetarian | 5 comments

Roast chicken leftovers (Tuesday night is curry night)

So what have we done so far with our roast chicken leftovers (apart from store them safely in the fridge of course)?

Well one of the favourite options is to rustle up a quick curry –always good whether you go for a creamy or a tomato based option. Probably not very authentic but WAY BETTER than anything you’ll get in a supermarket heat and eat;and believe me I know,I’ve tried a lot of heat and eat curry in my time searching for one that’s vaguely good. They are few and far between. Even if the supermarket recipe [...]

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March 5th,2009 | Tags:,,,,,, | Category:chicken,leftovers,recipe ideas,spicy | 2 comments
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