This is a recipe I recreated from a simple pasta dish we had in Italy. Phoebe loved it so much that she demanded I make it when we got back home. My version is quick and easy to make but utterly delicious – as is all good Italian food. All you need is some chicken, pasta, garlic, butter, extra virgin olive oil and some parsley (or other herb). For the calorie conscious you can reduce[…]
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Thai Green Curry Chicken with Sticky Rice
I have to admit, I’ve not had much Thai food. It’s one of those cuisines that I’ve just never gotten around to properly exploring. I should make a bigger effort because most Thai dishes that I’ve tried have been really good. Pineapple rice (served in half a pineapple) has got to be one of the best ways to do fried rice! At some point I’m going to have to come up with my own recipe[…]
Baked Egg with Polenta Fritters, Roast Tomatoes and Fried Chicken
I’m not entirely sure where the idea for this recipe came from. I didn’t have anything listed for the Saturday in my menu so I had to come up with something there and then. As it happened my new cookbook arrived “How to cook like a Top Chef” (one of my favourite shows). In it there was a list of six ways to cook an egg, one of which was baked egg. There wasn’t a[…]
Reinventing a Classic – Hainanese Chicken Rice
So far I’ve done a western dish (Rigatoni ai quattro formaggi) and now I will do decidedly more eastern style dish. Hainanese Chicken Rice is a very simple yet very tasty chinese recipe. While I was out in Malaysia I had some at one of the “5-star Hainanese Chicken Rice” restaurants. It lives up to its rather bold name, which is probably why there are now three of them spread across Kota Kinabalu. Hainanese chicken rice consists[…]