There is a scenic recipe route for cooking meatballs. Lavish, sepia toned landscape affairs of frying onions, soaking cuts of bread in milk, cracking eggs, grating garlic, combining two bricks of ground beef and sausage and then a laborious amount of dexterity. This isn’t that recipe. If that recipe is hiking the Himalayas to meatballs, … Continue reading QUICK MEATBALLS & SPICY PEPPER 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
I know it’s approaching Christmas when I start to think about the things I’m going to put in a jar and lock away for a month or so. I’m not the kind of person who makes things to give away as Christmas gifts. Not that I’m against this sort of giving as I for one … Continue reading SPICED PINEAPPLE CHUTNEY
One of the hardest things for any recipe writer, or any home cook for that matter, is deciding whether or not to be guided by some kind of formula prior to cooking. The decision whether or not to be guided by instinct or instruction is one that splits many cook. Some like to follow a … Continue reading CHICKPEA & LENTIL BALLS WITH LIME PADRON SAUCE
I’d go to war for a good sandwich. Remember that episode of Friends? When Joey threw himself on his sandwich to save it from what he thought was gunshot? That’s a real instinct. It’s a thing. And I’d absolutely throw my body on his sandwich. And then do a snow angel in it. This sandwich … Continue reading TOMATO, COURGETTE & BAKED FETA SANDWICH WITH MISO MAYO
I had a thought. It was after I coated my halved baby gem lettuces in oil and then slipped them into the oven to be slathered in black rice and a coconut yogurt. Pulling up from the oven with a smile on my face, I had a thought. ‘When did I become a food wanker?’ … Continue reading ROAST BABY GEMS WITH BLACK RICE & LIME COCONUT YOGURT
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
Having something with ‘burnt garlic’ in it doesn’t sound particularly sexy, does it? Conjures up images of charcoal. But what I mean by burnt garlic here is a whole cloves of garlic cooked in a low oven so that’s is caramelises into a velvet smooth golden purée. And it tastes every bit as amazing as … Continue reading BURNT GARLIC HUMMUS
In my humble opinion, everything savoury tastes better with pesto on it. And you are not able to palm me off with a jar. Absolutely not. Not when it’s THIS easy to make guys. I’m not one for a jar of pesto. It’s always this dish water green residue that browns within milliseconds of cracking … Continue reading DRY ROAST PEANUT PESTO
‘Get Stacking!’ It’s Pancake Day! Oh yes indeed. This day was huge in my house growing up. The batter would be ready, the flipping would commence, I’d have a nervous breakdown that I was hold a hot pan and didn’t want to risk my pancake hitting the floor. My mother would set up a Rag … Continue reading PEANUT BUTTER PANCAKES WITH CHOCOLATE AMARETTO SAUCE
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 