This afternoon I studied  my Curries of the world” cookbook by Atul Kochhar and decided on a North Indian curry dish mainly because I had all the ingredients in the house and it looked simple but am so glad I chose it! This is a rich and spicy curry that is really easy and quick to …

This is a midweek meal that i make when I have loads of bits of vegetables to use up and wanted to eat low carb, it turned into my father in law’s favourite dish too, he wouldn’t stay for tea though so I would send him home with one from the freezer! He particularly liked …

This is a quick and easy recipe out of my latest copy of Olive magazine.. tested for you! I have added a few bits though and made it my own, the last 3 ingredients are things I added and I also reduced the amount of sugar in the original dish as I found it too …

I wanted to make a Rouladen today, a traditional German dish that my German grandma used to make when I was a kid which is slices of beef spread with mustard and rolled around bacon, gherkins and onions and cooked in an onion gravy. I only had stewing steak in though which is way too …

This is one of my fave Chinese style dishes, it’s my take on a dish I had at the Szechuan Red Chilli Restaurant in Manchester when it was on the specials menu, unfortunately it’s not always on the menu so I had to figure out how to make it for myself! I actually took this …

Sweet potato, Red pepper and lentil soup.

I rustled up a nice soup today which worked really well so here is the recipe… I went off a recipe in Delicious magazine but added a few things of my own.. the one in the magazine is called “Coconut, lentil and sweet potato soup” but the only coconut used is coconut oil.. which doesn’t …

Just something I found on the internet today, I wanted a tasty curry that doesn’t use coconut milk (fattening) to use up some of the Tiger prawns I have.  This is definitely a keeper! I have done a variation on this curry, http://www.indiankhana.net/2013/03/Chettinad-Prawn-Curry-Chettinad-Eral-Kuzhambu-Recipe.html depending on what I had in the cupboards, and what I felt …

A favourite in the Gor house and hopefully some good fuel for the 15k I stupidly signed up for tomorrow morning! Ingredients 1 packet of minced beef or minced lamb 2 green chillis – Chopped. ( change this depending on your heat preference.) 2 onions diced 1 diced Green pepper 1 tbsp Garlic and Ginger …

I love dumplings! I made about 25 of these last night and we scoffed the lot between 2 of us! I still had some mixture left over too so I would say that this amount could probably make 30+ dumplings. Ingredients Filling Half a packet of minced pork 8 raw king prawns – chopped finely 1 …