I have just rustled this up for tea and it only took about 15 minutes! including making the curry paste! luckily I had all the ingredients in my spice cupboard. If you made a large batch of the curry paste and save it you could make it in 10 minutes easily. This comes from the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

If you only make this for the sauce you have to try it! I will be making a large batch of this sauce and trying it with everything, I love it! This recipe was in Olive magazine. Ingredients Serves 2. This recipe needs at least 1 hour marinating time but is very easy. 8 Boneless Skinless …

Not really sure if I should part with this one but I have just been asked if I have a recipe for carrot cake!.. DO I!! This is my “go to” cake, its very hard to get wrong and people say that they love it. There are a few variations though which I will give …