A taste of Spain: Croquetas de Jamón / Serrano ham croquettes (reposting as I’m entering this to the easyJet competition)

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 6, 2012 · 33 Comments 

Croquetas de jamon. Ole!

Please send me on holiday to Barcelona! A taste of Spain: Croquetas de Jamón / Serrano ham croquettes These little babies were my lifesaver when I was in Barcelona last week… My colleagues and I were so busy that we barely found time to eat so it wasn’t until about 10pm on Day 2 of the … Read more

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Lazy weekend brunch for one: baked eggs with ham, cheese and tomato

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 3, 2012 · 39 Comments 

Et voila! My experiment for the day - baked eggs with ham, cheese, tomatoes and salad.

Hi everyone The good news is that I’m back from my work trip, yay! How’s everyone been? Good I hope…! I’ve got lots of catch-up reading and posting to do, and despite the dire conference food I’ve inevitably been subjected to, I did have some good tapas while I was in Barcelona, and I’m planning … Read more

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Vegetarian delights: A savoury fried (white) carrot cake from South-east Asia (chai tow kway)

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 23, 2012 · 12 Comments 

My savoury white carrot cake - fried with pink pickled ginger, eggs, garlic and spring onions. Do go to your Chinese grocery shop to try and find the traditional pickled turnips/radish though - it's really the traditional ingredients that you fry with the carrot cake.

South-east Asian street food at its best One of my earliest posts for thebigfatnoodle was about how I taught myself to make a local dish from South-east Asia called fried carrot cake. Traditionally, it uses mooli (also called daikon) – a white radish – but I can’t always get hold of this unless I find … Read more

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Simple salads: Apple, bresaola and cambozola salad

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 21, 2012 · 40 Comments 

I love putting fruit in my salads and apples always work with cheese, and the cambozola went particularly well with the bresaola.

Changing a lifetime of bad eating habits I am really, really annoyed with myself. I’ve been looking forwarding to making and posting this recipe for some time now, but when I finally made it and took my usual pictures to show you, I forgot to add the toasted walnuts before I took the final snaps. … Read more

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A lime and ponzu dressed salmon carpaccio

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 13, 2012 · 27 Comments 

salmon carpaccio in a lime and ponzu flavoured marinade

Valentine’s Day – celebrate it because you want to and not because the calendar tells you to… Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, which I and many others I know cynically call Hallmark Day. I personally don’t believe that we need a special day to celebrate love when we should be celebrating it every moment of every … Read more

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My French cooking lesson: Isabelle’s saumon en papillote

Posted by thebigfatnoodle on December 1, 2011 · 15 Comments 

Isabelle's saumon en papillote, with pickled lemons (genius!) creme fraiche and chives all wrapped in smoked salmon

Kudos to all mums Last weekend, my husband and I took a long overdue trip to Paris to visit some of our friends. A. was the best man at our wedding and it’s amazing to think that we’ve been friends with him for over 15 years. Work, life, distance, having a child (him, not us) … Read more

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A rib-sticking winter warmer: sherry stewed lamb stroganoff

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on November 18, 2011 · 5 Comments 

Looks like a curry but I promise you it's not!

Sweet sherry I don’t get to eat lamb very often. My mom couldn’t stomach the taste or smell of it so when we were growing up, she’d only concede to roasting a leg of lamb (which she herself wouldn’t eat) once every couple of years. Unfortunately, my husband’s also not very keen on lamb. He … Read more

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