Category Archives: International Food

Karen’s Speedy Courgette & Bacon Risotto

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This recipe comes from the New Covent Garden Soup Company’s  – Soup & Beyond book.  I can really recommend the Covent Garden cookbooks as I have a couple and so far all the recipes I’ve tried have always been delicious.  They saved my bacon on Christmas Day when I had a soup disaster and found I had all the ingredients for the Lentil and Bacon soup in the cupboard!!

Anyway, back to the risotto.  We were shopping at a local farm last weekend, at this time of year the local produce is amazing and they had some really great looking green and yellow courgettes so we bought a load and then weren’t sure what to make with them.  Mid week Stewart was looking through the cookbooks trying to find inspiration and the Covent Garden book fell open at this page and he decided to test it out. It was simply divine!  Really tasty!  Matthew loved it too as he had a little bit for lunch the next day!

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Couscous Stuffed Roasted Peppers

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Sorry for the absence dear readers but as you can tell from my last post all those weeks ago we’ve been really busy here since Matthew arrived!

Stewart my darling husband has been taking care of mealtimes as I take care of Matthew’s bedtime routine.

I’ve been breaking myself in gently back into the way of cooking and so last weekend I made a huge pot of chilli. The weather today was really hot and we decided to go for a picnic so when we got home we weren’t in the mood for anything too heavy and so after trawling through the cupboards I came up with this quick and healthy snack.

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Lily Kwok’s Curry

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I was watching Great Food Live the other day and Jenni Barnet was interviewing Helen Tse. Helen is third generation British Chinese and has just written a book called Sweet Mandarin which details the story of her family and their journey from China to the UK, it sounded really interesting. Helen has also just opened a Pan Asian restaurant with her sisters in Manchester also under the name Sweet Mandarin.

This curry recipe came from Helen’s grandmother Lily and has apparently become very famous at the restaurant. I’m a real curry devotee so when I saw Helen make this on Great Food Live it was definitely a recipe I wanted to try out.

Lily Kwok’s curry

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Salmon Yakitori

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Whilst browsing through the UKTV Food site I would this recipe from Ching He-Huang.

Whenever we are back in Glasgow we always visit Ichiban,  chicken yakitori is a firm favourite so I thought this was definately worth trying to see how they compared.

This recipe originally featured on Ching’s Kitchen and was first aired on UKTV Food.

I served my Salmon with spring onion crushed potatoes and carrots, not exactly Asian but tasty never the less.

This marinade/glaze works just as well on poultry as on fish (as I said above it was chicken yakitori I had tried in the past).

An alternative accompaniment would be some spring onion and coriander jasmin rice, the creaminess of the coconut milk in the rice would compliment the sweetness of the glaze beautifully.

I can say that this will feature on the menu in our house again, it was really scrummy and measured up to Ichiban standards favourably!

Salmon Yakitori

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Shakshouka

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Today was absolutely freezing. Thankfully we didn’t have any more snow last night, I think the five or six inches which fell the day before was quite sufficient. So to chase away the cold I decided to try an Alan Coxon recipe featured the other night on Great Food Live. I’m not the greatest fan of Alan Coxon, I find watching him makes me nervous as he is so hyper on screen but I do often really like his recipes.

I liked the sound of this rich, spicy and warming stew, it seemed like my kind of no nonsense cookery.

In the original recipe Alan Coxon served the Shakshouka with a chickpea curry, fresh tomatoes, fresh mint (which I dislike) and used homemade harissa but I really wasn’t in the mood for messing around with chickpeas (besides Stewart really loathes them), I would rather used canned tomatoes when they’re not in season and I decided that store bought harissa would suffice.

So here for you folks is my take on Alan Coxon’s recipe for Shakshouka..

Shakshouka

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Thai Noodle Curry (Mi Ga Ti)

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As any regular readers know I love curries, especially Thai and Indian curries. Stewart and I also love noodles and so when I found a recipe for Thai noodle curry I knew this was one which had to tested.

This recipe is a slight adaptation of one from Appon’s Thai Food. I have featured recipes from Appon’s site in the past and they’ve always been a real hit.

You’ll find Appon’s original recipe here Thai Noodle Curry (Mi Ga Ti). I didn’t stray too much from the original and I must say that the combination of sweet, sour, spicy and nutty flavours was amazing! Thanks for another hit recipe Appon!!

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