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Vietnamese Beef Wraps
This is great summer food great for eating outsdoors. Marinated char grilled beef is served with plain rice noodles, dipping sauce, a vietnamese salad of fresh herbs and raw vegetables and lettuce...
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Spaghetti: Tomato & Bacon
A simple tasty pasta dish with fresh summer tomatoes, herbs and fried bacon. I prefer it with spaghetti but you can use any pasta. Serves 2* 250g Spaghetti* 2-3 tbsp olive oil* 150g cured bacon cubed*...
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Pork & Cucumber Curry
This is by far and away the best curry I have ever made and it was born out of necessity. A few cucumbers were hidden away under foliage and I hadn’t spotted them until they had grown enormous and too...
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Lamb Biryani
This is a fast and tasty way of making a meat and rice dish using the leftovers from a roast leg of lamb. I love Biryani, but it can be a complicated affair to make, with this method it is only...
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Pork & Long Bean Stir fry
This fragrant and spicy stir fry enhances the taste and texture of vegetables fresh from the garden. Variations of meat stir fried with long beans are found all over east Asia. This is my version using...
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Gingered Crispy Beef
This is a super treat for meat eaters. Thinly sliced steak marinated in ginger, fish sauce, sake and sugar and then deep fried until crisp on the outside but succulent on the inside. Perfect served...
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Pork Curry (Vindaloo)
This is one of my favourite meat curries, pungent with mustard oil, hot with chillies and sour with tamarind and vinegar and finally a hint of sweet nutty coconut. It is a remarkably quick and easy to...
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Chorizo & White Bean Stew
This is Rachel’s dads’ favourite dish, the one he cooks for himself when he is left to his own devices in the kitchen and I can understand why, it is so easy and so delicious. He usually makes it with...
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Mince and Potato Curry
This is my version of Keema Aloo a popular North Indian dish of minced meat cooked with spices and potatoes. It is really tasty, hearty stuff, easy to prepare and cheap, I love it. Delicious served...
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Pork Shiso Parcels
Shiso or Perilla is a fragrant leafy herb commonly grown in East Asia and is used particularly in Japanese and Korean cooking. The leaves are large and make a wonderful material to use as a wrapping...
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