Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 17, 2012 · 12 Comments
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 →
Category Adventures, Baking, British, Chicken, chillies, Cool stuff, Country life, cumin, Curry, Dinner, Edamame, Eggs, English, Features, Flour, Garlic, Godalming, Indian, Ingredients, Lemon, London, Lunch, Mangoes, Noodles, onion, Potatoes, Recipes, shallots, Singapore, Sour, Southern Indian, Spicy, Spinach, Stories, vegetables · Tagged with Boiled egg, Curry, Curry noodles, Curry puff, Filo pastry, Godalming, Gordon Ramsay, Indian cuisine, Noodles, Pastie, Pasty, Puff pastry
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 22, 2012 · 22 Comments
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 →
Category Adventures, American, amuse bouche, Bread, British, chillies, Cool stuff, Country life, Crab, Dinner, English, Fish, Garlic, Ingredients, Lemon, Lunch, onion, seafood, Shellfish, Sour, Tomatoes, vegetables, Vegetarian · Tagged with Cooking, Daily Telegraph, Home, Jams Jellies and Preserves, London, Salad, Tomato, Tomato Jelly
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 17, 2012 · 13 Comments
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 →
Category Adventures, Baking, Cakes, Chicken, chillies, chocolate, Country life, Courgettes, Curry, Dinner, English, Fennel, Ginger, Indian, Ingredients, Lemongrass, Lunch, onion, paprika, Recipes, Roasting, shallots, Spicy, vegetables · Tagged with Chicken, Cook, Curry, Lemongrass, Recipe, Roast, Sunday, Sunday roast, Vegetable
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 13, 2012 · 29 Comments
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 →
Category Adventures, Alcohol, Baking, Carrots, Casserole, Celery, chillies, Country life, Dinner, Garlic, Herbs, Ingredients, Lentils, Lunch, onion, paprika, Pork, Potatoes, Puy lentils, Recipes, sausage, Sausages, Spanish, Spicy, Stew, Stories, Thyme, vegetables · Tagged with Casserole, Chorizo, Cook, Lentil, Olive oil, Pork, Pork belly, Puy lentils, Sausage, Spain, Stew
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 →
Category bulgar wheat, chillies, couscous, Herbs, Lemon, Lunch, paprika, Parsley, Peppers, Recipes, Stories, Thyme, vegetables, Vegetarian · Tagged with Black pepper, Bulgur, Cook, couscous, Olive oil, Paprika, Roasting, Salad, Vegetable
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 23, 2012 · 12 Comments
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 … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Breakfast, chillies, Chinese, Chives, Country life, Dinner, Eggs, Features, Flour, Garlic, Ginger, Ingredients, Lunch, onion, Recipes, Rice, Rice flour, Singapore, Spicy, Spring onions, Stories, vegetables, Vegetarian · Tagged with Baking and Confections, Cake, Carrot, Carrot cake, Cook, Fruit and Vegetable, Home, savoury, Singapore, South-east asian cuisine
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 16, 2012 · 40 Comments
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 →
Category Beef, Carrots, Cherry tomatoes, chillies, Chinese, Country life, Dinner, Flour, Ginger, Ingredients, Lemon, Lunch, Oranges, Recipes, Rice, salad, Spicy, Sweet, Tomatoes, vegetables · Tagged with Beef, Chili pepper, Chinese cuisine, Crispy beef, Sauce, Sesame, Sirloin steak, Sweet chilli sauce, Tablespoon
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Posted by bigmonster77uk on February 7, 2012 · 25 Comments
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 →
Category Adventures, Alcohol, chillies, Cod, Country life, Courgettes, Dinner, Fish, Garlic, Herbs, Ingredients, Italian, Mushroom, onion, Peppers, Recipes, Spicy, Spinach, Stories, vegetables · Tagged with Aglio, Aglio e Olio, Chili pepper, Cod, Cook, Crushed red pepper, Dinner, Garlic, Olive oil, Parsley
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 5, 2012 · 38 Comments
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 →
Category Adventures, Apples, Butter, Cheese, chillies, Country life, Cream, Dinner, English, Flour, Herbs, Ingredients, Leftovers, Lunch, onion, Parsley, Pie, Potatoes, Recipes, Sausages, Stories, vegetables · Tagged with Apples, Cheese, Cook, Nigel Slater, Onion, Pastry, Pie, Pork, Shortcrust pastry
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on January 31, 2012 · 31 Comments
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 →
Category Adventures, Alcohol, Barbecue, chillies, Chinese, cumin, Dinner, Ginger, Grill, Honey, Ingredients, Recipes, Rice, Singapore, Sour, Spicy, Stories, Sweet, Vinegar · Tagged with Barbecue, Marination, Pork, Sauce, Singapore, Soy sauce, Tablespoon, Vinegar