I acquired this recipe several years ago during a trip to Barcelona. I was fortunate enough to spend an evening in the company of Cristina and Guillermo; founders of Barcelona Slow Travel, who taught me to make this dish during a private cooking class. I would definitely recommend booking this excellent food experience if you…
Author: hungerpangs73
Pork Stroganoff
This is another wonderfully simple recipe, packed full of flavour, making it as much at home on a dinner party menu as it is on the family table. Pork fillet is naturally very lean, making this dish easily adaptable for those of you trying to follow a healthier lifestyle. Simply omit the butter and go…
Lucknowi lamb with spiced risotto, mint and coriander chutney and raita.
Lucknow, a large city in northern India, is the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh. This aromatic Lucknowi curry paste is the perfect accompaniment to sweet lamb, served with a simple spiced risotto. The chutney adds heat and piquancy, tempered by the cooling raita. This wonderful Asian dish is a definite crowd pleaser and I…
Padron peppers
Padron peppers Serves 2 as a starter or 3/4 as a tapas dish A gloriously simple dish that I am again embarrassed to call a recipe. Simply take 150g of padron peppers and drizzle liberally with olive oil. Heat a griddle pan until smoking, cooking the peppers until soft and the skin charred. Turn regularly…
Wild garlic pesto
I feel a bit of a fraud calling this a recipe, as it really is one of the easiest things that you can make. I don’t weigh or measure any of the ingredients, adding more as I blitz according to taste and texture. But as the wild garlic season draws to a close it is…
Lamb Puttanesca
It’s been another busy week in the kitchen, as I prepared to enter the cookery demonstration tent, alongside GBBO winner Sophie Faldo at for the Weald Country show in Essex. The brief; to create a scrumptious dish in under 50 minutes. No pressure then! I was confident that my recipe for lamb Puttanesca wouldn’t fail…
The Palfry : Not gone, and certainly not forgotten.
I, like many Derby residents, was appalled to wake on a cold October morning to the news that the Palfry restaurant had closed its doors following a devastating fire. One is always grateful in such circumstances, that there has been no loss of life, but having eaten Sunday lunch there just a few weeks previous,…
Pumpkin pasties and cauldron cakes?
Nestled in a quiet Derby back street; you might miss it if you didn’t know it was there, is the beautiful Masa Restaurant. Steeped in history, the restaurant sits within the walls of a 200 year old chapel, sympathetically and beautifully converted into what has now gained the reputation as being one of Derby’s best…
No oven? No problem! Rosemary and garlic lamb cutlets with potato fondant, pea mousse, feta puree, pea and mint oil and a lamb sauce.
Imagine; your dinner party is looming and the oven explodes. It may sound like the plot from an episode of ‘Keeping up Appearances’, but this week I face that very challenge after the glass door of my cooker shattered whilst Tuesday’s pork belly dinner gently roasted away. As my initial panic subsides, I am left…
Hunger Pangs 