Category: Food
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Yorkshire Puddings
You can also use this recipe to make amazing toad-in-the-hole to feed two hungry people. Pour the batter into a hot ceramic dish (with hot oil) and then arrange the 6 toads (bangers) in the middle. Start off in a very hot (230) oven for 10 minutes and then turn down to ~190 for the…
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Microwave Golden Syrup Sponge
The Ingredients: 100 g self raising flour 100 g butter 100 g sugar 30 ml milk 2 eggs (beaten) few vanilla essence grated zest of half a lemon 3 tablespoons of golden syrup The Method: Cream the butter and sugar together. Gradually add the eggs and vanilla essence. Add the flour, milk and lemon zest.…
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Soft center chocolate puddings
First, preheat oven to 220. Melt together 125g of dark chocolate & butter over a gentle heat Whisk together 2 whole eggs and 2 egg yolks and then, when light & fluffy, combine with the melted chocolate. Add 2 tablespoons of icing sugar (or was it flour? can’t remember!) Pour in to tall ramakins that…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…