I’ve been baking chicken and rice together for quite some time. The comfort of knowing 2/3rds of my meal is tinkering away in the oven when all I then need to do is rustle up some veg on a stove top provides a comfort I welcome with both arms. But this version, with the spooky … Continue reading ONE PAN BAKED CHICKEN & BLACK RICE
I’m disgusting. There is no other word that comes to mind quicker when I think of a descriptive word for my appetite, other than disgusting. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not an adjective I scoff at or am ashamed of, but ultimately I do have a disgusting appetite. There are no food groups I ostracise … Continue reading CHILI & GARLIC SALT CHICKEN CRACKLING
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
Come for the pudding but please stay for the eggs. I know black pudding is a taste for only the bold among us (I stand in bold!) but if you walk away from this post with anything, please let it be the egg poaching method. Whenever I post a poached egg over on my Instagram … Continue reading POACHED EGGS & BLACK PUDDING CRUMBLE
‘Teach me how to cook’, he said. Domestic cooks will always shudder at the thought. Despite the fact that writing and sharing recipes like I do means that I do this very thing very regularly, it’s always funny when someone asks you of an evening to teach them how to cook, when what you was … Continue reading JERK(ISH) WINGS WITH WATERMELON & MINT SALAD
If I told you this was my hangover food you would either think I am lying or that I need to be sectioned. I can’t argue with the latter but I cannot agree with the former. This is the meal I made for myself when I was wallowing in the fiery pits of my hangover … Continue reading SHREDDED CHICKEN & PEA BROTH WITH HERB DUMPLINGS
So I’ve developed a love affair with courgettes and I feel okay about it. I know a lot of people get real freaked out by courgettes – maybe it’s a textural thing – but when they’re laced in smoky, slick chorizo juices and run through long, generous strands of linguine, it’s a party. Some sort … Continue reading SMOKED SALT CHORIZO & COURGETTE PASTA
You know what my biggest pet peeve is with food writing? When writers give their recipes suspicious titles. ‘Happy Soup’, ‘Lovely Pasta’, ‘Easy as Pie Pie’. I’ll be the judge of that thank you. Just tell me what the God damn recipe is, will you? Having said that… despite my initial anger at such childish … Continue reading SQUAFFLES WITH BAKED MAPLE BACON
A good 90% of this website is chicken based. I could be a colonel. But every time you see a recipe for chicken here, you can normally count on it being roasted. You could bet good money on it. And if you want to make even MORE money, you can bet that it was also … Continue reading BEER & CARAWAY GLAZED CHICKEN WITH MINI JACKETS & BLUE CHEESE SAUCE
The gift of being a food writer is that any piece of random paper you find in my apartment will probably have some form of recipe scrawled over it. Ideas for recipes, half written recipes, trials gone wrong, old recipes revamped, ingredients I want to try, recipes I never want to try again… any given … Continue reading LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN & PISTACHIO PILAF
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