Curry for lovers
I love curry , everything about it makes my heart sing. When I go out for a meal all I want is curry. my culinery skills are up to making most dishes but a real curry, the popadoms, the flock wallpaper , the sitar music cannot be replicated at home. This is about the nearest I get to my curry fix.Mr N loves curry too and the garlic and chilli certainly perk him up and he is chappati in my hands afterwards.
So make your loved one a curry with love, heart and passion is what it`s all about and where I live!
Lamb curry
1 leg of lamb studded with garlicand rosemary and rubbed with salt and olive oil
1 jar of madras or rogan josh paste
4 fat cloves of garlic
1 bunch of coriander chopped
2 tins of coconut milk
1 tbs palm sugar(any will do really)
4 red onions sliced
more fiery chilli sauce if you like
butter
Roast the leg of lamb, this is expensive but worth it. When it is pink strip the leg and set aside. To make the sauce fry the onions and garlic and paste in the butter until softened.Add the meat and coconut milk and sugar closely followed by the sugar, taste and add more chili if you are feeling hot! Add a lamb stock cube if you have one and simmer for 20 mins.
Serve with more fresh coriander, a Peshwari nan and pilau rice.
I like Prosecco with this one, drink it with your special one and prepare to sizzle!xx Enjoy.
Monday, 30 April 2012
Saturday, 21 April 2012
Birthday memories
When you are a kid your birthday and Christmas day are the best days of your year, you cannot sleep with the excitement but sadly it`s all so different when you grow up. I have had 21 birthdays with Mr N and he always buys me a "joke" gift - I practise my "oooh how lovely" face the night before I unwrap The greatest hits of AHA or an SAS novel he really wants to read. Why do I put up with it? Because I Love him that is why and I know a K and C (kiss n cuddle) from Matty is all I need everyday. I do treat everyday as if it`s my birthday- get out the Cava and eat that cake because noone knows when they`re going to call last orders at the bar!! I am going to have a feast tonight with my best friend Emma and her special family and we will laugh about our eccentric husbands and put on red lipstick and drink too many sherries. Life is beautiful even when you`re 40 and 3/4.
OTT Malteser cake
4oz butter
500g milk chocolate
more choc to melt over the top
2tbs syrup
2 big bags of maltesers
7oz crushed digestive biscuits
OMG- the diet police need not read any further!!!
Melt the butter , chocolate and syrup in a pan and add the biscuits . Press into a tin and press in the Maltesers. Chill in the fridge til solid and then melt some more white/milk chocolate and drizzle over the top. This treat is over the top - just like me and just what a birthday should be like.
When you are a kid your birthday and Christmas day are the best days of your year, you cannot sleep with the excitement but sadly it`s all so different when you grow up. I have had 21 birthdays with Mr N and he always buys me a "joke" gift - I practise my "oooh how lovely" face the night before I unwrap The greatest hits of AHA or an SAS novel he really wants to read. Why do I put up with it? Because I Love him that is why and I know a K and C (kiss n cuddle) from Matty is all I need everyday. I do treat everyday as if it`s my birthday- get out the Cava and eat that cake because noone knows when they`re going to call last orders at the bar!! I am going to have a feast tonight with my best friend Emma and her special family and we will laugh about our eccentric husbands and put on red lipstick and drink too many sherries. Life is beautiful even when you`re 40 and 3/4.
OTT Malteser cake
4oz butter
500g milk chocolate
more choc to melt over the top
2tbs syrup
2 big bags of maltesers
7oz crushed digestive biscuits
OMG- the diet police need not read any further!!!
Melt the butter , chocolate and syrup in a pan and add the biscuits . Press into a tin and press in the Maltesers. Chill in the fridge til solid and then melt some more white/milk chocolate and drizzle over the top. This treat is over the top - just like me and just what a birthday should be like.
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Saturday 14th April 2012
Everyday is a great day especially when it`s a sunny Saturday and it`s The Grand National. Coming from York the GeeGees are an overriding passion in my life and will be associated forever in my memory with the best of times spent with my Nanna and Grandad who were hot tipsters themselves. We would often be at their house in York on a Saturday afternoon and my Nanna would set us up a little tea table in front of the fire with a tablecloth and then she would present us with real chips and daddies sauce and we would play cards , eat as many Rowntrees chocolates as we could manage and watch the wrestling, darts or the racing.Those days are long gone and I have dined at many fine tables and restaurants but those chips my Nanna made me are Michelin starred memories and the taste will last a lifetime. I hope my own little ones will have similar happy memories of fireside teatimes where the dish of the day was Love.
Coronation chicken
I think the original recipe was designed 60 years ago so this one is for the Jubilee. It`s gorgeous in a wrap at the races with a few glasses of Prosecco or Prozacco as we call it at our house!
1 chicken roasted
3tbs of madras curry paste
2 red onions diced
butter
3 cloves garlic crushed
1 pot of mayonnaise
1 large pot of double cream
sherry
tomato puree
4 tinned apricot halves
salt ,pepper, fresh chillis sliced
Take all the meat off the chicken and put in a serving dish. To make the coronation sauce fry the onions, garlic , curry paste, tomato puree(2tbs) in a pan with some butter. Then add the apricots and sherry and cook a little longer and then put it all in a blender to make a smooth sauce in a bowl mix the cream and mayonnaise and stir in the curried sauce and mix with the chicken , taste and season. Scatter with a few raw green chillis if you like it spicier or a handful of chopped coriander and a splash of mango chutney.
I hope you win at the races today and that your table is full of special people to share the feast of life with.xxx
Everyday is a great day especially when it`s a sunny Saturday and it`s The Grand National. Coming from York the GeeGees are an overriding passion in my life and will be associated forever in my memory with the best of times spent with my Nanna and Grandad who were hot tipsters themselves. We would often be at their house in York on a Saturday afternoon and my Nanna would set us up a little tea table in front of the fire with a tablecloth and then she would present us with real chips and daddies sauce and we would play cards , eat as many Rowntrees chocolates as we could manage and watch the wrestling, darts or the racing.Those days are long gone and I have dined at many fine tables and restaurants but those chips my Nanna made me are Michelin starred memories and the taste will last a lifetime. I hope my own little ones will have similar happy memories of fireside teatimes where the dish of the day was Love.
Coronation chicken
I think the original recipe was designed 60 years ago so this one is for the Jubilee. It`s gorgeous in a wrap at the races with a few glasses of Prosecco or Prozacco as we call it at our house!
1 chicken roasted
3tbs of madras curry paste
2 red onions diced
butter
3 cloves garlic crushed
1 pot of mayonnaise
1 large pot of double cream
sherry
tomato puree
4 tinned apricot halves
salt ,pepper, fresh chillis sliced
Take all the meat off the chicken and put in a serving dish. To make the coronation sauce fry the onions, garlic , curry paste, tomato puree(2tbs) in a pan with some butter. Then add the apricots and sherry and cook a little longer and then put it all in a blender to make a smooth sauce in a bowl mix the cream and mayonnaise and stir in the curried sauce and mix with the chicken , taste and season. Scatter with a few raw green chillis if you like it spicier or a handful of chopped coriander and a splash of mango chutney.
I hope you win at the races today and that your table is full of special people to share the feast of life with.xxx
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Easter Sunday
Sunday 8th April
Sunday 8th April
Happy Easter everyone . Everyone has an Easter memory from their childhood when it was always sunny and we ate our own body weight in chocolate! I remember going up to Keswick for the first time sardined into the back of my Dad`s Capri to stay at The Old Keswick hotel. I ate Whitebait for the first time and in the Reception was a castle full of real chicks and baby rabbits. Little did I know 30 years later I would live in the lovely lakes with my own little chicks and I still adore Whitebait! My little brother Jamie dropped a chick and we could pick it out each morning as we came down for breakfast as the one with a crick in it`s neck and a limp, poor thing! God bless everyone today, I hope you are all sharing a glass with someone that you love and that any old arguments or hurts are healed. I get all my happiness from forgiveness , I try always first to say sorry when I`ve let the side down and am getting better at being the one to forgive when any nasty pasties have hurt me or any of my special loved ones.So today would be a good day to "make friends"- anyone bearing chocolate is always welcome at my house!!
A recipe for Easter
Hot cross bun and butter pudding
Butter four stale hot cross buns and place in an ovenproof dish.Mix a pot of double cream with 2tbs of caster sugar and an egg, a slug of whiskey and 2tbs of marmalade and pour over the buns and allow to soak in. Cook in a medium oven for 20 mins until golden. Serve with pouring cream or vanilla custard.
Happy Easter.xx
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