As culturually insensitive and as culinary inappropriate as this may sound, I always think of dal as a confused bolognese. Hear me out. It straddles the line of curry… and bolognese… but is absolutely neither… but kind of both at the same time? Nothing like a bolognese in flavour or components but everything like it … Continue reading BEETROOT & COCONUT DAL WITH QUICK CUCUMBER PICKLES
I am grief stricken when I don’t have a dipping utensil in the house. Whether this be bread, tortillas, pitas… any sort of carbohydrate I can dunk, dip and slather… I feel a type of ways when I don’t have it in the house. The good news is, if you have flour and water in … Continue reading WHOLEMEAL FLATBREADS WITH FETA & RED PEPPER HUMMUS
Here’s a promise to you. The most complicated thing I’m going to ask you to do here is chop and fold. How bout dat? A summer roll is fixed to be the freshest thing you’ll ever damn taste. It’s a tangle of crisp, crunchy, cool vegetables in an air-light rice wrapper that is not even … Continue reading VIETNAMESE ROLLS WITH PEANUT SAUCE
I remain true in my belief that there is no bad way to eat chicken. At all. Roasted with a humble offering of rosemary butter (like this recipe here) or smothered in a hot sauce and eaten by hand (like so), I refuse to slow down or tame my love for chicken in all of … Continue reading TANDOORI CHICKEN WITH COCONUT RAITA
So I’ve had this recipe nestled in my head for quite some time now. It’s one I have depended upon in my darkest hours. There is a cruel culinary juxtaposition that qualifies the majority of soul warming dishes to take the longest time to cook. So the times when you want to be on your … Continue reading QUICK SAAG ALOO
Whenever I’m feeling in between worlds, I don’t waste time floating… I just straddle both. It doesn’t bare questioning whether or not I am craving noodles because the answer will always be yes, but the context in which they are served is often pondered. Not for long, but definitely pondered. The pondering is whether or … Continue reading LIME COCONUT & BROCCOLI NOODLE SOUP
It’s usually in the dark of night with my head on a pillow and an eyemask on my mug that I remember… ‘… oh shit, there’s X in the fridge I need to use up’. This can range from a small box of eggs yolks (unwanted from a pavlova recipe) or even a leggy broccoli … Continue reading BLACK RICE & FETA TABBOULEH
I am somewhat of a dragon when it comes to curry. I want fire in my mouth. I am the kind of freak who will order a curry in a restaurant and then ask for a small bowl of chillies on the side. I don’t fuck about with curries. However, having said that, every now … Continue reading THAI BUTTER CHICKEN CURRY
The other night I featured the cooking of this curry on my Instastory (you can follow me here) and a guy slid in my DM’s and asked me if I would make it for him. I said making it FOR him would defeat the object of me having a website full of simple, cost effective recipes. … Continue reading SQUASH & COURGETTE MADRAS
Coconut Prawn Summer Curry. Words mean things. As basic as this sentence opener may seem, it is true when I say that words mean things. People just throw around words these days because they think certain words fit the bill. And while I understand it, I don’t support it. What I mean but this nonsensical … Continue reading COCONUT PRAWN SUMMER CURRY
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 