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
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
Imagine a Christmas without eating something that has been pickled. I shudder at the thought. Now I wouldn’t say I make homemade things to give away as gifts (however if I was on the festive receiving end of my Spiced Pineapple Chutney I wouldn’t be sad…) however it does warm my heart a little when … Continue reading PICKLED RED CABBAGE
Chocolate BBQ sauce, he said. Eyebrows raise. It’s not as weird as you think. Think of Mole Sauce, that extremely enchanting, glossy Mexican sauce built around chillies and chocolate that lift enchiladas to a whole other level. Think about it and it makes TOTAL sense. Dark chocolate – and I mean GOOD dark chocolate – … Continue reading STICKY CARDAMOM & CHOCOLATE BBQ RIBS
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
I’m about to give you a recipe for what I will loosely label a ‘side dish’. However I am absolutely not above eating a plate of potatoes for dinner. I have, I do and I shall continue. Reserve your judgement, because when they taste this good, there is justification. I believe every household should have … Continue reading BASHED PESTO POTATOES
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 