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Thai‑Style Prawn & Pineapple Egg Fried Rice

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

Chicken Sausage Toad in the Hole with Chilli and Onion

Flambéd Pineapple and Rum

I am not a sweet person. I am not cantankerous and bitter either. What I am alluding to is that I have no craving for anything sweet, and a desert is the course I am most likely going to skip on. I am not a fan of sweets, sugary drinks etc – so much so…

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…

Roast Pak Choi

Pak Choi is no longer one of those ingredients which require thousands of food miles or a trip to your specialist market to get within your grasp. It is plentiful, and whilst it may be concealed in a random location at your local supermarket, is likely to be there. Depending on where you shop, it…

Sourdough Bread part 1: The Starter

It is hard to imagine that over 365 days have passed since the UK entered lock down 1.0 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and I, like thousands of others used this opportunity to try and master sourdough bread. Quickly jumping back to basics, sourdough is a naturally and traditional leavened bread which used a starter…