Recipes: Real food. Whole ingredients. Nothing your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise. These aren’t diet recipes or clean eating nonsense, they’re proper meals built on good ingredients, cooked with skill, eaten without guilt. 80/20 in practice, not in theory.
GUT HEALTH AND RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL | Why the Flat Grey Feeling Does Not Go Away By Ian Callaghan | iancallaghan.co.uk Qualified Chef · Diplomas in Nutrition · City and Guilds · NLP Master Practitioner · Reiki Master · 40 years of food and nutrition experience IMPORTANT: This article is written for educational purposes only….
Bread the staff of life, Sourdough is the oldest form of leavened bread and was used at least as early as ancient Egypt. It was probably discovered by accident when bread dough was left out and good microorganisms wild yeast drifted into the mix. The resulting bread had a lighter texture and better taste. Sourdough bread is made by the fermentation of dough using naturally occurring lactobacilli and yeast. It…
There are about 4,000 varieties of chilli in the world. This is my four chillies chilli, the chillies I use in this recipe are cascabel, chipotle, ancho and jalapeno. I have used this recipe for a number of years it was the chilli sauce I used when I did chilli dogs at food festivals. I use it in…
I have never been a fast-food fan as such but I did enjoy fried chicken until I discovered the source of the chicken used. Now there are only two places I eat fried chicken and that is from my kitchen or my friend’s food truck Dirty Bird fried chicken There are two secrets to having…
Lamb Keema curry is a traditional, spiced curry that blends flavours of garlic, chilli, cumin, cinnamon, cardamom and coriander to create a dish full of flavour and aroma. I saw one of my favourite Indian chefs Cyrus Todiwala cook Keema at the Abergavenny food festival a few years back with Ffion when he signed his book…
It is not often I get a roast haunch of venison. When a neighbour posted on Facebook that he had some cuts of venison if anybody was interested. I had a haunch of roe deer off Neil and had already made up in my mind how I would cook this fantastic cut of meat. An…
Everyone loves a burger and in my opinion, you can’t beat homemade burgers. When you make your own burgers you know exactly what’s going into it no lips. dicks and hoof. When making your own burgers go to your local butcher and ask for 80/20 minced steak, my preference on cuts are chuck, brisket, short…
Growing up I spent a lot of time cooking with my Nan and one of my favourites was Nan’s rice pudding. I do not think there is a better comfort food pudding, creamy, unctuous moreish, the smell of the nutmeg as it cooks and then the skin off the top. This is my Nan’s recipe…
Moules Frites or Moules et Frites is a main dish of mussels and fries originating in Belgium. The title of the dish is French, moules meaning mussels and Frites fries, with the Dutch name for the dish meaning the same. Considered the national dish of Belgium. I love mussels in all manner of ways from…
Spring has definitely sprung, wild garlic in abundance and the nettle tops we all hated as kids, so time to make wild garlic and nettle risotto. There is no mistaking wild garlic or Ramsons to give them their other name. Swathes of the spear-shaped leaf carpet the floor of damp woodlands giving way to the…
Using leftovers and store cupboard basics, these homemade baked beans with a steak bavette hash made a great midweek meal. I used a tin of cannellini beans for this but you could use any beans though I don’t like broad beans done this way. If using dried beans I tend to soak overnight. To go…
Steak Bavette with Chimichurri Sauce, my favourite cut of steak is the steak bavette in this post I am doing a simple but classic way of cooking bavette or flank. The Bavette steak is a French name for the Flank steak of a cow. Flank is a steak cut that is sourced from the underbelly of the cow and is generally…
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