January 2012
3 posts
August 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
Hay-On-Wye
Off to the The Land Of Forgotten Cook Books for the weekend, primarily for the festival but will take the opportunity to seek out a few more cook books whilst I’m there. Who knows what gems lurk in the dusty back room shelves of some of these places?
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
2 posts
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds recipe
On what other day of the year do you roast your own pumpkin seeds but on about October 29? This year, I’ve decided to coat my pumpkin seeds with savory spices, but believe me, pumpkin seeds are divine when roasted with just a little bit of olive oil and a LOT of salt.
Getting the seeds out of the pumpkin wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. If you paw...
WatchThis is from the excellent ‘50 Great Curries of India’ by Camellia Panjabi - the best Indian cook book I own. Butter Chicken is a rich and flavoursome curry and is typical of the recipes in the book in that it is uncomplicated but produces fantastic results.
50 Great Curries of India - ISBN 978-1856268196
September 2009
6 posts
Roast Chicken with a Morel Sauce
Not in a book, or at least not in a book I own, but a recipe from the F-Word which turns out superbly each and every time.
For something different, a similar sauce made with dried wild musrooms works really well with a good meaty salmon fillet and black lentils, my own recipe which I’ll post at some stage…but for now, enjoy one of Gordon Ramsay’s finest….
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