From the category archives:

Meat

Egg-free and Dairy-free Chicken Goujons (Chicken Nuggets)

October 30, 2010

When I made these goujons for my daughters’ lunch today I had the plate above by the kitchen window ready for photographing. When the oldest and middle daughter walked into the kitchen and saw them they both said, “Why don’t you serve a plate of chicken nuggets to us like this?” and then the oldest […]

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Lemon & Thyme Chicken

July 19, 2010

I have made this recently for friend’s coming over for lunch, it’s so simple to put together, packs so much flavour but no effort whatsoever. I have thyme growing in pots on the patio and I always have a lemon, there would be something amiss in my kitchen if I didn’t have a lemon. […]

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Roast Rack of Pork with Fennel Seeds

May 23, 2010

My favourite roast is my Mum’s rack of pork which has been marinated in the traditional Portuguese marinade of white wine, garlic, bay leaves and salt and pepper (we use ground white pepper often with pork for its pungency). She manages to roast it until falling off the bone tender. The English are crazy for […]

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Chicken Wrapped in Banana Leaf – First Attempt

May 21, 2010

When I made my recent very short stop into China town in London and picked up a few ingredients like Chinese garlic chives I also picked up a bag of these, banana leaves because I’ve never used them before, which is like a red rag to a bull with me, I have cupboards full of […]

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Chinese Garlic Chives & Bacon

May 9, 2010

These mild scented garlic flowers are delicious not to mention pretty only taking a couple of minutes to cook. After a fleeting visit this week to Chinatown in London I picked up these garlic chives, which I love and can only buy them there, and without fail I couldn’t resist picking up a couple of […]

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Noodle Salad – Feeding Hungry Teenagers

March 29, 2010

This noodle salad isn’t just to feed sixteen 15 year olds coming over to celebrate your daughter’s birthday, this is a good salad to make for family meals, pack lunch, to have in the fridge over the weekend giving you the answer to, ‘..what shall I snack on..’. This was a one of very two […]

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Scallops & Chorizo Bites

March 9, 2010

These little bites are not dissimilar to the dish of black pudding and scallops which has becomes a new classic. I came across these wild scallops and couldn’t resist doing something. I have a soft spot for chorizo, if I’m at home one of the dishes I make for lunch is a salad toped with […]

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Store Cupboard Chicken – Chicken with Soy, Mirin and Ginger or Chili

February 25, 2010

This chicken dish is like my miso noodles, a cupboard recipe with only three ingredients as the title suggests. The hardest thing is deciding how to cut the chicken depending on how you’re cooking it, grilling it as I’ve made it above, stir fry or pan fry it. For me there’s a time in the […]

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Sauteed Potatoes with the Leftover Pork

January 28, 2010

Make sure you have some of that bacon and ribs from the Poor Man’s Feijoada just so you can eat these potatoes, because if there ever was anything that should be attached to potatoes is crispy bits of pork and if you are so incline finish it off with a runny egg over it, it […]

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Poor Man’s Feijoada – Beans cooked with Pork

January 28, 2010

Feijoada pronouncing the ‘j’ like you would in ‘Jack’ and not the Spanish way of an ‘s’ sound, if you type into the search engine you’ll have lots of pages on examples of Brazilian feijoda with black beans, fresh and salted pork, fresh and dried beef, cured sausages, blood sausages, quite an extensive list of […]

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A Different Kind of Roast Chicken

January 26, 2010

There are those like my cousin’s wife who do not like roast chicken because they had it so often as a kid that now as an adult it doesn’t float their boat. In our house I can’t go long without a roast chicken the girls look forward to it and for the cook it provides […]

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Miso Noodles – Easy Way To Eat Japanese

January 15, 2010

It seems the snow is finally thawing and you can feel a sigh of relief from people as I do my weekly shop. Here I am, halfway through the month, supposedly the worst and most depressing month in our calendar. Lack of sunlight and by now we’re fed up with the cold, feeling poorer having […]

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New Year and Not Quite New Decade – Chicken Tagine

January 2, 2010

New Year’s eve at our friends Steve and Lynnette’s and the conversation after having gone through, ‘I don’t know why people are celebrating a new decade since it doesn’t start until the end of 2010!’ yes Steve we felt your annoyance inevitably came around to resolutions. I think we’re getting a bit too old because […]

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Rojões – Portuguese Pork with Cumin and White Wine

June 10, 2009

Cooking rojões always takes me back to my Gran. I picture her standing over the stove on which there’s a huge pot, wearing her blue apron, wooden spoon in hand turning around asking me if I want a rojõe to keep me going until lunch was ready. You’re never allowed to be hungry when my […]

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