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Carla
Adil’s Butter Chicken
This is a great curry recipe for Butter Chicken has been provided by family friend and chef extraordinaire, Adil Karimbux. It’s been adapted from long running family traditions for everyone to enjoy!
My Favourite Ingredients By Skye Gyngell
Skye Gyngell is an acclaimed Australian chef and food writer whose work was centric to gaining the Petersham Nurseries Cafe (Richmond, Surrey) its reputation for great food and a string of awards. The recipes in her latest book are a breath of fresh air.
Supper for a song
A review of Tamasin Day Lewis’s book, Supper for a song. Day Lewis inspires her readers to be a little bit more daring, experiment with what they have at hand and spruce it up with a few extras for a fantastic brand-new dish.
Baked eggs with tomatoes and lemon creme fraiche
This version of baked eggs with tomato, creme fraiche and lemon, brings a Mediterranean element to a delicious brunch.
Slow roasted lamb shoulder with Moroccan-inspired rub
A recipe for slow roasted lamb with a spiced orange rub. Ideal to warm you up in the cold months. Slow cooking the lamb means it’ll fall off the bone and the delicious smell will fill your house.
The Chinese Cricket Club
The Chinese Cricket Club restaurant is a nice in-house offering of the Crowne Plaza on New Bridge Street and a welcoming one at that; offering “Sichuan specialities with a modern twist”.
Warm curly kale and Kabocha squash salad
Curly kale represents the season and the squash the new and it’s perfect to take to work in your lunchbox as it works reheated too.
Kathy’s shortbread
My housemate Kathy made this delicious shortbread a week ago for our annual Christmas dinner with friends before we all head off to see our families.
She got it from her mum who I understand got it from her mum, who… You know what I mean! They made a lovely sweet something to have with our cup of tea at the end of such a big meal and they looked the part when she handed them out to all the guests as a little present to take home.
Alone in the kitchen – Tuna Pasta
On my birthday a friend gave me a book called “Alone in the kitchen with an eggplant” as a present. It’s a book about people who have to cook for one and their lone habits, but not having a boyfriend when she gave it to me I was a little bemused.
Cue 2 weeks later and the book is one of the funniest things I have read in the past few months with its meticulous portraits of the deep relationship there is between each individual and food.
People who are famous for their luxurious dinner parties that only eat cereal out of a box when alone. Others who don’t cook anything but rice and beans. And those who face eating at a restaurant alone without fear.
Dad’s Salsa Verde
My dad is famous among his friends for this salsa verde; you can find him in his tiny kitchen at regulars intervals making large batches of it to fulfill the requests that normally build up around Christmas time,
He swears it goes best with poached meats like beef and chicken, but I have established it’s fantastic with sausages too to cut through the fat or to stuff the whites of hard boiled eggs as a snack.
