Not Just a Man's World

I was at a friend’s house for dinner between an orchestra rehearsal and concert a little while ago and she served up some amazing chicken tikka kebabs.  Catharine is a super cook and is so accommodating to my dietary requirements with plenty of meat and vegetables on offer.  She did a super trick with the [...]

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I was planning on cooking the chicken and ham pie filler a few weeks ago however I decided to make a few changes as I went along and, in the end, I found myself with something that tasted slightly different.  Despite having no lemon in it, the casserole tastes strangely lemony – most likely due [...]

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To continue my theme of trying to introduce some different mince meals in my life I found a stew with sweet potato included.  It’s fairly basic but at the same time the flavours are fantastic.  The sweetness of the sweet potato comes out beautifully but don’t make the error I made the first time of [...]

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I recently realised that I was always cooking our slow cooker chilli recipe and it was time to do something new with mince.  I enjoy the curries that we do, but somehow they had never worked quite as well with mince.  Then it struck me that even in India they do curry with minced meat [...]

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This was a recipe that I obtained from Mark Sisson’s website, Mark’s Daily Apple.  It was really tasty and went down a treat with both of us.  I served it up plain with some spicy tomato salsa (recipe to follow next week) and green vegetables, but it would work well with guacamole, soured cream or, [...]

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This is another recipe from Nicko’s kitchen on You Tube. I have cut down the quantity of soy sauce a little as Chris found it far too salty for his tastes and it was definitely a little on the salty side for me too.  Other than that it’s a nice simple one to try out [...]

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