Posie’s Place

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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I have a rather shameful confession..

I have been the owner of a slow cooker for more years than I care to remember. Unfortunately since we moved to Switzerland it has sat dormant, rather neglected and unloved in our loft. With the baby on the way we have been clearing out (when I say we I mean Stewart) and this led to the rediscovery of our slow cooker.

I must admit to being a complete novice at this and since I have lost the instructions I’m just planning on winging it. I mean how difficult can this be.. surely the whole idea is that you chuck everything in and allow it to cook slowly and undisturbed all day and then voila dinner is made!! Or that is what I’m hoping! Fingers crossed the reality reflects my ideal..

You all know how I love to try and create meals from leftovers and this recipe was created by doing exactly that! I looked into the fridge and grabbed a handful of veggies and some chicken which needed used and this is what happened..

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I don’t think it has stopped raining and so because of this I have been in the mood for more wintery style dishes.

Yesterday I made one of my favourite warming dishes - chilli con carne. I have posted this recipe before and so I didn’t bother to write about it.

Since it is Sunday today I did the thing I usually do on a Sunday since most of the shops are closed, I looked into the fridge to see what I could rustle up with the contents.

Here is what I came up with..

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I haven’t really felt like cooking over the past couple of weeks but today finally I was in the mood to cook. I haven’t had a curry in a couple of weeks and so I decided I fancied a curry for dinner tonight and so I came up with this.

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Stewart quite fancied some paella after I made Natalie’s Paella recipe the other night the only problem is - he doesn’t like seafood at all. I thought the perfect combination was chicken and chorizo instead and it was really delicious! The recipe is pretty much the same as the recipe I posted the other night (see the link above for Natalie’s Paella recipe) but this time I made the following changes:

I chopped two store bought roast chicken breasts and used this in place of the prawns.  Since my last paella was a little wet I decided to use much less stock and so I only used 600ml of vegetable stock with 150g paella rice.

After cooking for 20 minutes I added the frozen peas stirred well and replaced the lid and turned the heat way down to almost nothing to allow the rest of the stock to be absorbed by the rice and the peas to cook.
Complete sucess!!

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As I said in my post before I went to Glasgow my best friend Natalie is an excellent cook!! Natalie had prepared all of the ingredients to make Paella for my arrival on Thursday but after all the messing around due to my baggage problems we didn’t get back to her house until almost 10pm, we decided to put the paella on hold until Friday night and went for fish suppers on Thursday (very good choice!).

After shopping all day at Braehead shopping center in order that I had some clothes etc and visiting my little grandmother (she’s 84 in January!!) we returned to the flat and Natalie whipped up the most delicious paella. I had a real hankering for it again this week and so I asked Nat to share her recipe. I should have taken some photographs of Natalie’s masterpiece when it was dished up but I was too late and only thought of it after I had already polished off my plate and her and Gareth’s was almost finished but here is what the remained of Natalie’s Paella by the time I got my camera out!

I hope my attempt did Natalie’s version justice! Next time I will buy chorizo from the Spanish deli around the corner and will also use raw prawns instead of pre-cooked.

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At the beginning of August I decided to have a week dedicated to abstaining from meat and with this in mind I bought some tofu. I enjoy tofu but I have never cooked with it until now that is!

So anyway during my veggie week I bought some organic tofu and put it in the fridge and there it sat. Every time I opened the fridge there it sat, looming, haunting… TOFU .. COOK ME… EAT ME… I was scared..

Well I knew the day would finally come, the expiry date on the tofu is tomorrow and I was faced with the reality that I would either need to cook the tofu or chuck it in the bin…

OK..OK..I GIVE UP.. I will cook the tofu!!

I had a look to see what other ingredients in the fridge required liberation before ending up in the bin and so I came up with this recipe. Have a look and see what you think.

Turns out I shouldn’t have been scared the tofu was delicious and easy to cook.

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UPDATE AUGUST 14 : This dish was submitted for Tony’s 29th Curry Mela over at Anthony’s Kitchen.

Vegetarian week is over now but I’m thinking that I’ll probably cut back on the amount of meat I eat during the week and try and eat more seafood and prawns but putting that to one side for the moment I thought I would enjoy some chicken tonight.

I was reading through Meena’s site Hooked on Heat today and came across another of her wonderful curry recipes and thought I would have it tonight with certain adaptations.

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I love chicken chow mein, the combination of egg noodles and chicken for me is heavenly.

There is a certain ingredient which many of the Chinese restaurants in Glasgow add to their chicken chow mein which gives it a very particular flavour and until the other night I had absolutely no idea what it was.

Chinese Black Vinegar!!!! That’s definately the special ingredient. So for my attempt at a Chow Mein Glasgow style I based my sauce on the Kung Pao sauce from the other night.

I was delighted with the result, the end product was delicious and as close as I think I will ever get to my favourite chow mein without catching two airplane’s back to Glasgow to pop to Sun City or Night Palace.

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My best friend Natalie and I can sit talking on the phone for hours talking about food. Natalie is a great cook and so is her boyfriend Gareth. Last year when we were back in Glasgow Natalie and Gareth invited us over for dinner, Gareth said he would cook enchiladas. Natalie had told me that Gareth made exceptional enchiladas so I was really looking forward to trying them. Natalie was absolutely right, they were amazing!!

I hope Gareth thinks I did his recipe justice, I singed the ends of the tortillas slightly but they were still really good!

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