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Continue reading →: Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces Thai Curry
Ingredients 300g pack Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces 2 tbsp dark sweet soy sauce 1 tbsp vegetable oil 6-8 shallots or 2 small red onions, quartered 1-2 tbsp Thai green curry paste 200ml tinned coconut milk 1 medium carrot, cut into long thin strips 100g mange tout 100g bamboo…
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Continue reading →: New potato and chorizo tortilla
Many countries have their own version of an open omelette. The Italians have frittata, the Spanish tortilla. In France it is Spanish omelette. Traditionally it wouldn’t be new season potatoes used in this dish – it would be bigger main crop potatoes – but I wanted to celebrate the…
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Continue reading →: Cushion, cleaning and Cairns
Hmm the younger of our two Cairn Terriers has a habit of scratching at the sofa cushions to make them comfortable to lie on, this is not good for the fabric longevity! Last year OH was given some upholstery fabric samples (a work colleague's relative no longer needed them) and…
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Continue reading →: Medieval Dog Needlepoint Update March
Okay the top half (shown in the bottom picture!) is a little dark, but hopefully people can see that the mid blue is pretty much done (again I need to work on the medallions but they will be the last thing before the white of the dog), I am now…
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Continue reading →: Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces Thai Green Curry
All of Thailand’s most mouth-watering flavours come together in this dish to create an enticingly exotic Thai green curry, made with Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces, sweet coconut milk, fiery chilli, and a refreshing zing of lime. Ingredients 300g pack Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces, defrosted 2 tbsp light…
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Continue reading →: Quick hot and sour noodle soup
Ingredients For the soup 1 tbsp groundnut oil 2.5cm/1in piece fresh root ginger, peeled and thinly sliced 2 handfuls fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced 1 red chilli, de-seeded, finely chopped 1 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry 700ml/1 pint 5fl oz vegetable stock 220g/8oz canned bamboo shoots, drained and rinsed…
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Continue reading →: Cornish Saffron Buns
500g (1lb) strong plain flour ½ level tsp salt 1 large pinch, saffron strands 60g (2oz) butter 60g (2oz) lard 90g (3oz) caster sugar 7g sachet fast-action dried yeast 200g (7oz) currants 1 large egg 100ml (3½fl oz) milk, lukewarm Large baking sheet, buttered Place the strands of saffron…
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Continue reading →: Parmesan-roasted Cauliflower
1 large head cauliflower 3 tbs olive oil salt and pepper 2oz freshly grated Parmesan cheese 2oz freshly grated Gruyere cheese Method Preheat oven to 350F/175C. Remove the outer green leaves from the cauliflower and cut the head into florets. Place the florets on a sheet pan. Drizzle with the…
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Continue reading →: Crafting update
I hope you can see these okay – basically the blue triangle around the border are about half done (the inner ones I have 4 more to do and that will be the inner border done and I am half way around the ones on the outer border), this week…
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Continue reading →: Chicken Donburi
8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs 1 medium leek, trimmed 2 spring onions, trimmed 1.5 litres Dashi stock 1 tsp sugar 2 tbs soy sauce 1 tbs Sake 1 tbs Mirin 4 eggs, beaten pinch of salt 300g Japanese rice for serving Japanese Sansho pepper 1 small sheet of Nori, finely…
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