Lockdown lunches 2: Colourful Paneer wraps
I’m a massive fan of paneer as a lovely lighter option in curries but usually making a whole curry is quite time and labour intensive. This option tastes great…
Category: The East
One of the most diverse and exotic cuisines we’ve experienced and one of our very favourite travel destinations. Whether it be Thai coconut soups, Vietnamese cold noodle salads, Japanese onigiri, mouth numbing Szechuan pepper stir fry or Balinese duck, the flavours of the East are part of our daily staple recipes. These are some of our favourites.
Thai style seabass with mango
One of my absolute favourite ingredients in Southeast Asian food is seabass. It’s light and pairs wonderfully with Asian flavours like chilli and coriander. It’s always my order at my…
Summer’s day summer rolls
Herby parcels of wonderfulness, summer rolls are just what you need on a sunny summer’s day. So when we had not one but two mother’s round today for mother’s day…
Vietnamese prawn summer rolls
As you can probably tell I’m a little bit in love with Vietnamese food at the moment. It’s simple and packed with fresh herbs so it feels healthy and delicious.…
Vietnamese chicken glass noodle salad
Summer has suddenly arrived in Manchester. The flip flops and sunnies are out so it’s time for a health kick as the dread of bearing the bikini body approaches. So…
My secret to quick beef pho
Traditionally this rich, beefy broth from Vietnam is made using beef bones and boiled for hours like any good stock. In reality we don’t always have time to do this,…
Zoodles: The verdict
So I caved, it just sounded too good. No guilt noodles? I had to give it a go, and £15 on Amazon later I had my very own Zoodle chef,…
Boxing Day steamed bao
As I hope you’ve managed to do, we’ve had a proper gorge session this Christmas. As with most, there was a definite over-catering going on on the big day, which…
Sushi Sunday
There is one particular food that I’ve noticed tends to be far more scarce up north than down south and that is sushi. The taste of raw fish can be…
Cauliflower dhal curry
Sadly I can’t claim to have picked up this recipe from some glamorous trip to India where I wore harem pants for months and ‘found myself’. But, living in Manchester…
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