It’s curry time! Curry puff puffs, curry filo puffs and curry cups

Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 17, 2012 · 12 Comments 

thebigfatnoodle's curry puff puffs - stay away if you can't handle spicy food!

Curry in a hurry If there’s one type of food that the Brits have truly taken to their hearts and made their own, it is the curry. It’s Britain’s favourite take-away and I daresay the number of Indian restaurants could rival the number of pubs in the UK quite easily. Anyone know if that might … Continue reading →

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Savoury Jellies: Crab salad served in a pea shoot and tomato jelly

Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 22, 2012 · 22 Comments 

Pea shoots set in tomato jelly.

Jelly making with a savoury twist Some of you may remember that last year, my husband and I visited London’s famous ‘Gherkin’ building to have dinner at Searcy’s restaurant on the top floor. The most memorial part of that night out, apart from the architecture, turned out to be the amuse bouche that we were … Continue reading →

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Meals for many: Lemongrass and curry-flavoured chicken on roasted fennel, onions, shallots and garlic

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 17, 2012 · 13 Comments 

Lemongrass and curry-flavoured chicken, roasted in the oven with fennel, onions, shallots and garlic.

Friend-friendly suppers If there’s one thing I love more than spending my weekends cooking, it’s spending my weekends cooking for friends. I get an obscene, almost indecent, amount of pleasure from it, and nothing pleases me more than having my closest friends around the table laughing, talking, drinking and eating together. Naturally, I use them … Continue reading →

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A Spanish-influenced Three Pork Casserole with Chorizo and Puy Lentils

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 13, 2012 · 29 Comments 

Three pork casserole with chorizo and puy lentils.

Cooking with chorizo I’m still in a Spanish frame of mind after my recent trips to Spain. I was there two weeks ago but what some of you might not know is that I actually had to go back again last week for a couple of days. This last trip was for a different work … Continue reading →

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Bulgar wheat salad with roasted veg in paprika

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 8, 2012 · 23 Comments 

Roasted veg and bulgar wheat with simple herbs and spices

I actually made this salad some three weeks ago before my business trip but I simply forgot to post it so here it is… A bit of this and a bit of that. I couldn’t really decide what to call this recipe. It’s again a union of two different salads that I love and, typically, … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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Crispy chilli beef

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 16, 2012 · 37 Comments 

A MUCH tastier and better version of the classic crispy chilli beef than what your take-away will ever offer.

Crispy chilli beef – home-made beats take-away – no contest! Crispy chilli beef has to be one of the most popular dishes people order at Chinese restaurants or from take-aways. More often than not though, the crunchy strips of beef are so tough and so over fried that all you can taste is the greasy … Continue reading →

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Simon’s Pesce A.O.P (Baked cod in parma ham with roasted vegetables and A.O.P spinach)

Standard · Posted by bigmonster77uk on February 7, 2012 · 25 Comments 

Simon's pesce AOP

Video games, zombies and dinner Mr Monster: So our good friend Simon came down to stay and play video games a couple of weekends ago. He bought me a zombie cowboy game for Xmas, which I have great pleasure in watching him play, but he also brought over his PS3 console with another Zombie game, … Continue reading →

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Two into one: Pork and apple in a cheese and onion pie

Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 5, 2012 · 38 Comments 

My two in one pie: apple and pork as well as cheese and onion

Two into one: Pork and apple in a cheese and onion pie This weekend is the big freeze in Europe and while I hate the cold, I’ve been looking forward to seeing some snow for the first time this winter. At 3pm this afternoon, the weather didn’t disappoint. We started to see little wisps of … Continue reading →

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An oriental twist on streaky slices – sweet, sour, spicy and sticky

Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on January 31, 2012 · 31 Comments 

Streaky slices oven-baked in a sweet, spicy and tangy sauce.

What do you think you smell of? My mum used to say that she could tell where people came from by how they smelt. She’s a bit bonkers is my mum, and I stopped trying to reason with her on matters like this a long time ago. The last time we had this discussion was … Continue reading →

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