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Thai‑Style Prawn & Pineapple Egg Fried Rice

Baked Whole Sea Bass with Mediterranean Vegetables

Chicken Sausage Toad in the Hole with Chilli and Onion

Spanish Tortilla Omelette with Chilli, Thyme, and Garlic

Chilli Tomato and Prawn Cuttlefish Ink Fettuccine

Tomato Bruschetta with Chilli

Salade Niçoise with warm potatoes

Well, this is a first. Creating a recipe, photographing it, eating it then, four weeks later, sitting in a hotel room in Monterey, California – suffering with my worst jet lag to date thinking that, however brainless I feel, why not use this opportunity to dedicate some constructive time to Love the kitchen?. I have…

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…

Smoked Mackerel Rillettes with Aleppo Pepper

What the F##k happened in 2020? We have not even reached the end of March and Brexit happened. Marlini was made redundant. Bathroom had to be largely rebuilt due to a leaking gasket. I broke a bone. Am three weeks into Laryngitis with every cure thrown at it proving largely futile (though the odd spoonful…

Halal Beef Goulash

Only last week, I was discussing with Pavol ( a super talented Slovakian database guy I work with) my weekend plans to make a Beef Goulash. We shared stories of the Goulash parties we had been to (I lived in Slovakia over 20 years ago and have been to quite a few), compared recipes, and…