Project Type: low carb
Karhai Chicken
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 …
Pork Vindaloo!
Not as scary as it sounds as you can control the amount of heat you want.. this recipe makes a hot but tasty dish without burning your mouth off! The use of vinegar makes this distinctive not a shed load of chillis. Really simple to make too but make sure you start well in advance and …
German Beef Casserole (Rouladen stew)
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 …
Cumin and Coriander Lamb
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 …
Braised steak with Onions, Mushrooms and Jerusalem Artichokes
What shall I do with these knobbly veggies
Miso Roasted Aubergine
If you are an Aubergine fan you need to try this! I made a spare aubergine too and I will use it to chop up and put into some cous cous for tomorrows lunch. This recipe is adapted from one in Good Food magazine. Ingredients 1 large aubergine 2 tbsp brown Miso paste Thumb sized …
Salt and Pepper Mushrooms
Adapted from a takeaway fave! Tasty and meaty, spicy mushrooms! Ingredients serves 2 as a starter or serve with rice and noodles as a main 1 packet of mushrooms – closed cup, button or chestnut. 2 cloves of garlic – chopped finely 1 small onion diced finely 1 small green pepper diced finely 2 red …
Hearty Beef and Red Wine Casserole
Having been full of a cold last week I needed something nice and stodgy to help me to feel sorry for myself and beef stew was what I needed! Dumplings would have made it even better but I couldn’t bring myself to ruin the diet THAT much! Below are the basic principles, you choose what …



