Food writers encouraging their readers to make a chutney at Christmas is as predictable as a dentist telling you to brush your teeth. I think every food writer has a bit of a sweat on in the lead up to Christmas, because if you haven’t advised your readers to make a chutney, then what kind … Continue reading QUICK HARISSA CHERRY CHUTNEY
I don’t want to put too much of a sordid visual into your imagination here, but I was really hanging out of my arse with covid when I made this for the first time. And not that I want to make too much of a habit of hanging a recipe’s merit on its simplicity, given … Continue reading ROAST PUMPKIN & BUTTERBEANS WITH SAGE & GOATS CHEESE PESTO
I want to introduce you to the most versatile sauce you will ever have in your fridge. The other week I made Sausage & Lentils which made use of those slippery and sweet, oily roast red peppers that come in a big, obtuse green jar (if you shop in LIDL or ALDI, you know the … Continue reading HALLOUMI WITH PEARL COUSCOUS & RED PEPPER SAUCE
I would say this is a pretty solid example of something I cook on a VERY regular basis of an evening. To a point where a very sarcastic reader of mine (and damn it, you know who you are) said to me: “Oh, you’re roasting chickpeas again, are you?” And yes. Yes I am. And … Continue reading COURGETTES WITH BAKED CHICKPEAS, FETA & MINT YOGURT
Jam. Marmalade. Chutney. Compote. Preserve. They’re all very different things, I know, but for me, so long as I’ve got a dollop of sweet, tangy, syrupy fruit to slather on toast or sneak into bakes, then I really don’t care what we call it. This recipe here is basically a jam because by it’s very … Continue reading QUICK FROZEN FRUIT JAM
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 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
When I cook with lamb, I always think of the legacy of Valley bound family members behind me. Not because I came from a family of sheep farmers or anything, we just really liked lamb. Growing up in the Welsh Valleys, lamb was the favoured, if not the primary, meat choice. From the Lamb Stew … Continue reading SPICED LAMB RIBS WITH MINT COCONUT YOGURT
I’m going to take you to a real dark place right. Prepare yourself. Imagine a world where the chicken wings are dry and unseasoned. Imagine it. Fear it. Now let’s make sure that world stays in the depths of the worst imagination and that our chicken wings stay juicy forevermore. I would never put an … Continue reading ORANGE & BLACK PEPPER BRINED WINGS WITH BUFFALO SAUCE
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
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 