Main Dishes

Thai Green Curry with Chicken and Aubergine

Thai Red Curry with Chicken and Pineapple

Chilli con carne with Shiitake mushrooms

Baked Whole Sea Bass with Mediterranean Vegetables

Prawn Linguine with Chilli Pesto

Chicken Sausage Toad in the Hole with Chilli and Onion

Smoked salmon, artichoke and red onion pizza

According to Wikipedia (so, it must be true), the ‘Pizza’ was invented in 1889 when Neopolitan pizza maker Raffaele Esposito was commissioned by the Royal Palace of Capodimonte to create a pizza in honour of Queen Margherita. The tomato, mozzarella cheese and basil creation – as legend would have it – matched the colours of…

Salade Niçoise

Salad is not rabbit food. The green leafy matter which may be added to your plate and often abandoned is not just for decorative purposes – it is both edible, and good for you ;o) I am really, quite the fan. To anyone who doesn’t like tuna, anchovies or capers – read on – this…

Thai Chicken and Coconut Noodle Soup

The very first time I tried Thai food was at the Chiang Mai Kitchen in Oxford, in 1994. It had opened the year before, and was somewhere I just had to try. Whilst my memory is far from photographic in terms of all the ingredients which made up the Tom Yum Poh Thek (mixed seafood…

Goat’s Cheese, Red Onion, and Kale & Rocket Pesto Pizza

Time poverty has really been a curse of late (hence no new posts in an age), not helped by trying to juggle a few too many personal challenges, resuming cycling (or trying to- weather permitting), plus the day job which sadly has nothing to do with cooking and is very full-time to the point that…