This is not a commercial blog. It’s just a note of recipes that I have cooked and want to remember.
Dukkah
Dukkah Recipe The Egyptian condiment, dukkah seems to be becoming a bit of trend amongst local restaurants looking to give certain recipes a bit of a boost. So far I've had it with poached eggs and avocado, beetroot carpaccio and seen it on the menu with a...
Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe
Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe This homemade mayonnaise recipe is pretty easy so long as you follow the instructions carefully. It tastes way better and is far cheaper than using shop-bought mayonnaise. The idea is pretty much the same as hollandaise sauce in that...
No-Fail Professional Hollandaise Sauce
Professional Hollandaise Sauce Professional hollandaise sauce because this is the method used in a professional kitchen that my son was apprenticed to. I've not come across this method before, even though I have tried many different ways of cooking hollandaise. At the...
Sourdough Pancakes
Sourdough Pancakes I've been making sourdough bread for our family for just over a year now. The issue I face is that we only really need a loaf every few days and sometimes a week or two goes by when the starter goes unused. If I don't refresh the sourdough starter I...
Professional Tomato Sauce Recipe
This recipe comes from a Russian chef I found on Youtube. It seems a bit fiddly to start with but once you've made it a couple of times it's pretty easy and produces amazing results! I have shortened the recipe for convenience, but if you want to do it properly...
No Knead Sourdough Bread
I've been making sourdough bread for a couple of years now. In that time I have tried literally dozens of different methods and combinations of ingredients. A little while ago I found the Hobbs House Bakery website and thus the Henry Herber's No Knead Sourdough. It's...
Easy Chinesey Brown Savoury Rice
Easy Chinesey Savoury Brown Rice Serves: 1 hungry guy or 2 normal people for a lunch Approx time: 45 mins Ingredients 200ml brown rice 1 small white onion (diced) 1 tbsp sesame oil 400ml vegetable stock 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce 1/2 tbsp dark soy sauce 1 tbsp Oyster...
Courgette Fritter Recipe
So this courgette fritter recipe is a bit of a western variation on the Indian bhaji, it uses gram flour and goes for that lovely gooey inside you find in a well cooked bhaji, flavoured with courgettes, garden herbs and italian hard cheese. The beauty of this...
Quick & Easy Biryani Recipe
This is an awesome recipe taught to me by a Punjabi family man. This is definitely not a traditional hyderabadi biryani, (if you want to see one those amazing dishes being made authentically take a look at the video at the foot of this recipe) however, it tastes...
Hyderabadi Curry Recipe
I've been making this curry for lunch all week using a different headlining ingredient. On Monday I used a pork chop, on Tuesday I used mushrooms, on Wednesday tuna steak, on Thursday I added some mushrooms to wednesdays curry and today (Friday) I used chickpeas. Each...
Super-quick Curried Chickpeas
Dying of starvation and at the end of the week, I needed something quick, easy and fulfilling for lunch today. Chickpeas are one of my favourite ingredients, combined with the aromatic, intense flavours of india they make a most exquisite lunch. This meal only takes...
Jeera Chicken (or Quorn)
This Jeera Chicken recipe is thanks to Charlie Ladher - I wanted to add some foundation and more understanding of indian cooking so I enrolled on an Indian cookery course at a local college. Today we made a jeera chicken recipe (jeera means cumin). Myself and Amanda...
Bordelaise Sauce Recipe
Bordelaise sauce is a child of the espagnole mother sauce - you can see the espagnole sauce recipe here. The bordelaise sauce recipe is a red wine sauce that takes its name from the Bordeaux wine region of France. Traditionally, bordelaise sauce goes beautifully with...
Espagnole Sauce Recipe
I recently had a go at making my own Escoffier demi-glace. If you're sticking to the the true Escoffier version of demi-glace then you will be needing a recipe for Escoffier's espagnole sauce, one of the 5 mother sauces. Many chefs today skip the espagnole sauce stage...
Simple Vegetable Casserole
Calories: 333 kcal per serving Serves: 4 Vegetable casserole has to be one of the quickest and easiest meals for school night. Also it's an absolute winner for both calories and nutrition. This recipe is a simple winter vegetable casserole with my favorite...
Easy Butternut Squash Curry
Butternut Squash, Aubergine & Sweet Potato Curry Serves: 6 Calories: 211 Kcal Let's be completely honest here, this butternut squash curry recipe is a million miles from being authentic, however, the ingredients combine to create the most mouth-watering, eclectic...
Low Calorie Beef Stew Recipe
Easy Low Calorie Beef Stew Recipe Low Calorie Beef Stew Serves: 4 Calories in Low Calorie Beef Stew: 239 kcal per serving Why low calorie beef stew? Having switched my eating to an intermittent fasting style, I now have a huge challenge to source recipe's and food...
Baked Meatballs Recipe
Over the years I have searched and searched for the best baked meatballs recipe. In fact I've tried frying, steaming and baking meatballs to uncover the secret to the finest baked meatballs in the UK. I'm happy to announce that the search is now over! Who better than...
Basic Tomato Sauce Recipe
This is a very quick and easy basic tomato sauce recipe. It's relatively inexpensive and can be used in numerous different ways. The basic tomato sauce recipe can be served on it's own over a steaming bed of spaghetti to make a mega-quick, flavoursome meal. It...
Gougeres Recipe
Makes: 20 (ish) gougeres Time to prep: 5 mins Time to make: 1 hr Gourgerès originate from France and are a savory choux pastry usually flavoured with cheese. The most common cheeses used for gourgerès are gruyere, comte or emmentaler however, there are numerous...
Welsh Rarebit Recipe
Serves: 2 Calories: loads!!! Welsh rarebit, what a recipe! Ever since I experienced by first proper welsh rarebit recipe (a couple of years ago), I have yearned to master this exquisite recipe. The welsh rarebit recipe has an interesting history dating back to 1785,...
Phill's Potato Salad Recipe
Potato Salad Recipe Serves 6 (as a side) Crickey oh Riley!! The sun's out after months of bleak days. We're finally getting a taster of summer. In the UK (certainly in our house) a bit of sun means that a BBQ is obligatory. We rushed up to Sainsbury's and grabbed a...
Quick Tandoori Chicken Thighs
Serves: 6 Calories: (per serving): 130 kcal Okay okay, I know that you can't do tandoori chicken thigh's in half an hour, it takes preparation, marinading and perhaps most importantly a tandoor! However, last night I had some chicken thigh's and fancied something with...
Spicy Dahl Recipe
Serves: 2 Calories: 472 Some other info: Carbs 74, Fat 3g, Protein 32, Cholesterol 0 This is a great spicy dahl recipe. More calories than a sandwich but very filling, satisfying and with boat-loads of protein. If you're training hard then spicy dahl recipe will...
Chicken Curry with Tomato & Honey Gravy
Serves: 2 Calories per serving: 400 kcal (without rice) This is a really tasty meal, it take a bit of fiddling about, but believe me it's absolutely worth it! I found that 2 birdseye chillis gave it the right amount of kick, leaving a warm glow in my mouth afterwards....
100 Calorie Omlette!
100 Calorie Omlette Recipe serves: 1 100 calorie omlette...really? No, not really - I've managed to get it down to 101 calories but I'm happy with that! I've just signed up for a Tough Mudder event with Mandy, my wife, and a load of friends. This a 12 mile obstacle...
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3 Cheese Homity Pie Recipe
Homity Pie Recipe Prep time: 60 mins Before we start I have to put my hands up and say that this is not a traditionally accurate homity pie recipe. A true homity pie recipe would have wholemeal flour (which half of my kids don't really like) and you would never find...
Spicy Pizza Sauce Recipe
Prep time: 30 min Perfect spicy pizza sauce - the holy grail. There aren't many recipes that are as fun or creative as a homemade pizza. But what's a pizza without an amazing tomato sauce. Since Dominos introduced their very spice meltdown pizza a few years ago I've...