One of my favourite cuisines is Indian. Many people claim not to like India food, thinking it will be too spicy to eat. This will not be the case! Both these dishes are flavourful spicy rather than hot spicy (leave out the chilli if you are very averse to heat.) Also, once you have a […]
In this recipe, I wanted to try and cook with pork. Normally I don’t like using pork, finding it tough, fatty and tasteless, so I tried to do something to counter each of those things. I also found an interesting way to cook and serve root vegetables.
Firstly, pork can be quite tough compared to beef […]
This dish combines sweet and savoury flavours in a main meal. I normally don’t like to combine sweet and meat, especially orange meat sauces which usually end up sickly sweet, sticky and the sour orange flavour is totally opposed to the juicy meat flavour. Apple based sweetness usually compliments the flavour of the meat much […]
This is the second article in a series on chocolate and lime. This is the final experimental recipe I created that used chocolate and lime. I am fairly pleased with the result, but it is not perfect. I think perhaps brownie is meant to focus on the rich, sweet, overpowering nature of chocolate, and any […]
This is the final instalment in my series on combining lime and chocolate in desserts. This is one of my favourite desert recipes in the whole wide world.
Thinking back to the chocolate and lime brownies, the lime flavour compromised the essential rich nature of the brownies. However, chocolate mousse seems to be some kind of […]
Nothing is better than freshly baked bread. It smells gorgeous, it looks fantastic, you can do all sorts of things with it, and kneading is very therapeutic. For that reason I’d recommend not using any kind of machine; it just feels better to do it naturally. (Okay, an electric/gas oven is allowable!)
This particular recipe is […]
I wanted a pudding the other day Normally I always make chocolate puddings, and would claim its not a pudding if it doesn’t have chocolate in it. Therefore, in the spirit of trying new things, I wanted to make something different.
This treacle tart also has two unique twists: fruitiness and a spicy sauce.
The fruitiness […]
This dish is quite simple and was invented to be a delicious, warming supper. Gnocchi is a bit like pasta, but made from potatoes and shaped into elongated balls. You can usually find it with fresh pasta in the supermarket. It is very filling, so this dish goes quite a long way, and would go […]
I like good old American food, but making chips at home is quite a hassle, and they are not too good for you. Instead, I recommend potato wedges.
You can make them easily in the oven in 30 minutes, they are not too fatty and taste great. I made some just the other day so this […]
I was cooking a large meal for friends the other day. I fancied roasting some beef, and fortuitously, a leg of beef was half price in the supermarket.
As I have grown older, I have liked my beef rarer and rarer. I now prefer rare or medium rare beef, as I think it is more juicy, […]
