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Spicy Tomato Jam

Couldn’t be simpler really: eats well with cheese or on a bacon sandwich – less sweet than ketchup and you know what’s gone into it   500g red onions, finely sliced 1kg tomato, chopped 4 garlic cloves, crushed 1 red

Posted in Preserves, Spicy, Vegetarian

Smoky pulled pork and barbeque sauce

I have several slow pork recipes but this one is becoming the favourite. You might need to tone down the chilli in this one – we like it quite lively. I usually increase the barbeque sauce quantities (except the sugar) by

Posted in Leftovers, Meat, Pork, Slow, Spicy, Uncategorized

Goulash

Today is a miserable Friday – windy, grey and overcast so I thought we’d have something nice and warming for supper. Beef (and mushroom) goulash, I know it’s not authentic but I like smoked paprika. As we are having friends tonight I

Posted in Beef, Slow, Spicy

Pork pho (noodle soup)

I was in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) earlier this year for business and was introduced to Pho – (pronounced Fuh) for breakfast,usually beef. I like it so much we now grow Vietnamese basil. If you don’t have all the spices

Posted in Soup, Spicy

Tempura prawns and vegetables

On our arrival in Palma de Mallorca almost the first thing we did was call in at one of our favourite restaurants, Caballito de Mar. The tempura batter needs to be very freshly made, it doesn’t need to rest and it

Posted in Seafood, Spicy

Hot and sour soup

As she is still following a reduced carb diet I needed to do something really tasty for Saturday lunch that still had a decent helping of protein. Then I had this idea. I don’t really like this soup too thick

Posted in Brunch, Chicken, Soup, Spicy

Fish curry with flatbreads

I had planned to be back late from the office so decided we’d have  Monkfish curry but we ended up with a guest so I needed to add in some other fish. Any firm fish works – normally I use

Posted in Fish, Quick, Spicy