Satay Chicken
This has to be one of my favourite Chinese dishes and is fairly easy to make well at home. Satay chicken is a peanut based dish.
Harissa Cous Cous
Easy! Harissa is a spice paste that comes from Middle-Eastern cuisine and is great used in a variety of manners. Tonight, for my packed-lunch tomorrow, I have harissa cous cous which took me about 1 minute to make.
Prepare the cous cous as you normally would and once it is done, fork through 1-2 tsps of […]
Tuna with Borlotti Beans
This is a great dish which can be used as a starter or as a main meal. It’s really easy to make, requires no cooking, and is very substantial. You could have bread with this, or even have it with a jacket potato if you wanted.
Ingredients : (Serves 2 as main meal)
1 Red onion, chopped […]
Middle-Eastern Vegetable Rice
Last night we fancied quite a plain dinner, so we decided to have Wild Salmon with brown vegetable rice. There is something about a nice piece of salmon, brown rice, and vegetables that make seem like a very cleansing dish. The fish is packed full of goodness, so are the vegetables, and having brown rice […]
Coca-Cola marinaded chicken
Whoa you may think marinading chicken in a sugary soft drink sounds ridiculous, and yes you’d be right. However it does taste extremely good and is great for BBQs or quick dinners in the week.
When you think about it, Coca-Cola is similar is BBQ sauce. Both of them are sweet, dark, slightly spicy, […]
Extremely quick spicy tomato pasta sauce
Last night when I was making my packed lunch for work, I knocked up this sauce on pasta completely spontaneously, based on what I had in the fridge. When I had my lunch today, the sauce was amazing and I will definitely make it again soon.
The sauce is so easy and quick to make, I […]
Caribbean Rice’n'Pea
Rice’n’pea is a Caribbean dish which usually accompaniments meat and fishes dishes, and the recipes can be very varied. Rice’n’pea does not actually contain any green garden peas as some may think, the peas are actually pulse beans such pigeon, borlotti, black-eyed, kidney etc.
However, for a week night dish we found that having […]
Easy double layer chocolate cake
If you need to bake a chocolate cake in swift time, then here is the best recipe out there.
Ingredients (makes one large double layer cake):
1/2 cup butter
11 cups caster sugar
3 large eggs, well beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups of plain flour
1/2 cup cocoa
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
11 cups milk
Cream the butter and sugar together […]
Spicy Pepper and Pork Goulash
Goulash is traditionally a Hungarian dish which consists of stewed meat, red onion tomato, paprika, and stock. It’s a great dish to have on a cold day, and goes well with many different side dishes such as pasta, rice, polenta, bread, chips, and boiled potatoes.
Here I give you my recipe which is made with pork […]
Snickers sandwich
There are always times when you are at home and all you want is some sugary, chocolaty, indulging stodge. You look in the cupboards and there are no chocolate bars. You look in the fridge and there are no cakes. You look in the freezer and there is no ice-cream. Oh no, […]
Chicken noodle soup
This is a great soup to do the day after you cook roast a whole chicken as you can make chicken stock from the carcass, and use any left over meat for the soup. Chicken noodle soup tastes best on those cold, wet, grey days when all you want is good pick-me-up. It’s […]
How to make Sushi at home (Video)
In the past decade, the Japanese food Sushi has been becoming increasingly popular with the rest of the world, including Britain. People in Britain seem to be mad on the pre-packed portions of Sushi you can buy in supermarkets and lunch cafes, which come with a small portion of wasabi and soy sauce.
I do […]
How to make Lemon Salt
Lemon salt is incredibly easy to make and can serve as a very useful ingredient in your cooking. Lemon salt goes brilliantly sprinkled on fish, chicken or vegetables, and also comes in very useful at barbecues. You can use lemon salt in any dish that requires salt as you will be still be using the […]
Christmas comes early - Gingerbread cookie mixture in a jar!
Thanks to the economic slowdown and credit crunch I am having to re-think my Christmas present giving plan and come up with ideas for alternative presents that won’t cost me a lot of cash. I have quite a large family, including three nephews and for nieces, so I though that it would be quite a […]
You can mash more than just a potato!
Mashed potato is possibly one of the greatest comfort foods there is and is so easy to knock-up. However mashed potato can make you feel heavy and bloated afterwards, and is packed full over quick-release carbohydrates.
If you are looking for a mash alternative that will be a healthier, lighter, or just fancy a change […]