Oliver Jobson

Author: Oliver Jobson

  • thai style prawns

    The Ingredients: 100g wide rice noodlesr 1 tblspn veg oil 1 finely chopped garlic clove 2 finely choppedd lemongrass stalks 1 egg beaten, seasoned. 150g raw peeled prawns 1 tblspn fish sauce 1 teaspoon soft brown sugar 2 tblspn soy sauce large handful of roasted peanuts coarsley chopped beansprouts (handful) coriander leaves to dress. The…

  • Carbonara

    This is such a simple dish that everyone should be able to cook it from memory! You can add cream or oil if you want a looser texture / more sauce. Onion or garlic has no place in this dish. And I can’t mention this sort of elitist ingredient gate keeping without posting this amazing…

  • Fish Cakes

    Serves 4 The Ingredients: 500g Hebridean white crab meat 2 tbsp Desiccated coconut 50g Coconut cream 5cm Fresh root ginger, peeled and grated 1 tbsp Thai fish sauce 1 tbsp Oyster sauce 3 Garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 Eggs, beaten 1 Lime, juice (or enough to taste) 25–50g Fresh white breadcrumbs 750ml Vegetable oil, for…

  • Slow roasted lamb with butterbeans

    This takes a while to cook, but it’s definitely worth it when the lamb is falling off the bone and melting in your mouth! Serve with crushed new potatoes or mash and fried Greens. Serves 6 The Ingredients: 1 shoulder of lamb, bone in (about 2.2kg) Salt and pepper 1 head of garlic, cloves separated…

  • Chicken, Red Wine & Bacon Casserole

    The Casserole is named after the dish it is cooked in that shares the same name and harks back to the 1950s, but this type of cooking goes back much further with loads of variations from Lancashire Hotpot and Shepherds Pie to Cassoulet and Timballo. Ingredients ( 4 drumsticks 4 wings 4 tbsp olive oil…

  • Nokia CK-7W Car Kit & iPhone Echo…

    To fix: Go to (iPhone) Settings > General > Bluetooth and turn Bluetooth Off then go back to settings and turn Airplane Mode On. Wait a few seconds and turn Airplane Mode back to Off. Go back to General > Bluetooth and turn Bluetooth back on. Works Like a charm and I have had no…

  • icon / favicon plugin for photoshop

    Create windows icons and web favicons with this photoshop plugin: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/go.php3 To make sure your favicon appears in IE 7, try this: <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico”> <link rel=”icon” type=”image/ico” href=”favicon.ico”>

  • Creating a txt list of file names from folder contents (mac)

    In MAC OS X Open up terminal (applications>utilities), cd to the folder, and then type; ls -R > contents.txt this command will list all of the files’ names in the current folder and subfolders, and then output the list to ‘contents.txt’ which will then be saved in the same folder. If you require the hidden…

  • Google Analytics Tracking with Multiple Profiles

    If you want to track multiple profiles, within your own account, or over different accounts, you need to call the google tracking code twice within your javascript code. You need to change the second part of the Google Analytics javascript tracking code that you attach to the foot of every page: try { var pageTracker…