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

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

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

Just for the record

Those who have been following carefully might wonder where the very last of the roast chicken went.

You’ll be please to know that the cat didn’t get it but instead it ended up as a quick lunch in a fresh white lovely soft floury roll with lemon mayonnaise (or salad cream for one of us) and tomato. It was breast meat – perfect.

So in these credit crunch times lets see whether overall we got value from the chicken. We had 4 meals (for 2 people each time) using the meat (roast,curry,pie,sandwich) and about 5 pints of [...]

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March 11th,2009 | Tags:,,,,,,,,, | Category:chicken,recipe ideas | Leave a comment

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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