Serves 6-8 | 6½ – 7 hours cooking | 15 mins preparation | Overnight in fridge While we cook with the heart sometimes we have to use the head, or to be more precise a pigs head in this case. With crispy ears and meaty snout and cheeks a pigs head provides a variety of…
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Spicy Brazilian Coconut Chicken
Serves 4 | 40 mins cooking | 15 mins preparation Quick and easy to make, to make this can become a regular and delicious weekday dinner of chicken with a spicy, rich, creamy and fragrant broth. Ingredients 1tsp Cumin 1tsp Cayenne pepper 1tsp Turmeric 1tsp Ground coriander 1/2tsp Garlic powder 1tsp Salt 4 Chicken breasts…
Chicken Karage
Serves 2-3 | 15 mins Preperation | 8 mins Cooking | 30 mins Marinading | Chicken Karaage is a traditional Japanese fried chicken. Juicy and tender inside and very crispy outside. So quick and easy to make you’ll never order the greasy rubbish KFC again! Ingredients 500g Boneless chicken thighs 25g ginger – grated 1…
Crispy pork belly – using belly slices
Serves 2 | 40 mins cooking | 10 mins preparation Single large pieces of pork belly are not always available in the supermarket or they have already been smothered in some sort of sauce so for those times I compromise and use pork belly slices. the cooking process is largely the same for doing a…
Thai Jungle Curry – Kaeng Pa
Serves 4 | 20 mins cooking | 15 mins preparation This is a recipe for the famous Thai Jungle Curry from the mountainous region of Chiang Mai. Traditionally made with whatever vegetables were found in the jungle and the meat or fish from the days hunt, though I am using chicken you can use the…
Steamed Sea Bass with zesty lime sauce (Plaa Neung Manow)
Serves 2 | 10 mins cooking | 5 mins preparation This should originally have been made with baby barramundi, but that isn’t something regularly available in your local supermarket or fish monger so I have used a large sea bass instead Ingredients 1 Large sea bass 1 tsp Garlic – chopped 1 tsp Thai chilli…
Roast Pork Shoulder Porchetta
Serves 4 | 3hrs 30mins cooking | 25 mins preparation Traditionally in Italy, porchetta is a whole young pig filled with lots of fresh herbs and slow-roasted. As it’s unlikely we need to feed enough people to justify a whole piglet we can get a similar effect with boneless pork shoulder or belly pork. Ingredients…
Thai Fish and Spices in Banana Leaf
Serves 2 | 15 mins cooking | 25 mins preparation This is a great street food dish found on every street corner in Northern and Assan regions of Thailand and as soon as you open up the parcel you will be assaulted by steam filled with spices and fresh herbs. Ingredients 250-300g filleted fish –…
Spaghetti Bolognese
Serves 26 | 3-4 hours cooking | 30 mins preparation There are lots of “Traditional Recipes” and arguments about what should and shouldn’t go into a Bolognese sauce but this is all rubbish. There is no traditional recipe, every grandmother had her own recipe, the only thing in common is long slow cooking and using…
Half Gurkha Chicken Curry
Serves 4 | 1hr 15 mins cooking | 10 mins preparation Looking for something different to do with chicken thighs I came across a recipe by Jamie Oliver for Gurkha Chicken Curry. As normal with lots of these chef’s recipe’s unless I know ahead of time and plan my shopping to make their recipe’s I…
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