Mexican Chilli Chicken

May 22, 2024Mexican, Recipe, chickenElizabeth AndersonComment

This recipe with chicken and kidney beans is another form of chilli con carne - but more Mexican and less American! Serve with sour cream, rice and guacamole, and use leftovers with cheese to fill a quesadilla!

Barbecued Pork Shoulders

May 15, 2024pork, Recipe, BarbecueElizabeth AndersonComment

Pork shoulders are wonderful on the barbecue. They are good value and meaty, but with enough fat to keep the meat moist - and you end up with tasty, crispy yet tender steaks! Try some of our spices as a marinade and you’ll be impressed with the flavours.

Chicken in a Chipotle Sauce

April 24, 2024chicken, Mexican, RecipeElizabeth AndersonComment

This Mexican chipotle sauce is a great way to cook chicken. The sauce is delicious with rice, or mopped up with tortillas. Serve leftovers with rice and cheese in a wrap like a burrito!

Potato & Pea Pilau

April 24, 2024Recipe, rice, south asian vegetarian, VegetarianElizabeth AndersonComment

This vibrant and delicious pilau rice is perfect on its own as a vegan meal or served with other dishes. Add some egg for extra protein and some mild chillies for an extra zing!

Thai Jungle Curry

March 10, 2024Recipe, pork, South East Asian Pork, ThaiElizabeth AndersonComment

A Jungle curry is a Thai dish which traditionally would be made from foraged ingredients. This actually covers a very wide range of items, from river fish and wild boar to bamboo shoots and lotus shoots, but the main criteria for the curry is that it must be very hot! We have used our Indonesian Padang blend…

Wetha See Byan - Burmese Dry Pork curry

February 27, 2024Recipe, pork, South East Asian PorkElizabeth AndersonComment

Wetha See Byan is a richly flavoured but incredibly easy dry pork curry, one where you’ll discover you already have all the ingredients! Well, if you keep some lemongrass and lime leaves in the freezer as we do!

Udon Stirfry with Chicken & Pork

February 22, 2024chicken, Recipe, South East Asian Chicken, noodlesElizabeth AndersonComment

This udon noodle dish can be cooked with any ingredients, including thinly sliced beef or prawns. Use all those sauces you have in your larder, plus red soy bean paste.

Japanese-style noodle soup

February 21, 2024chicken, Recipe, South East Asian Chicken, noodlesElizabeth AndersonComment

This Japanese-style soup uses lovely thick udon noodles and Shichimi Togarashi, the traditional 7-spice blend (widely available).

Spicy Vegetable Soup

February 19, 2024Recipe, south asian vegetarian, VegetarianElizabeth AndersonComment

We can’t pretend we have created a new genre of cooking with our Spicy Veggie Soup! But this is a delicious warming version, perfect for the whole family, with either coconut milk or a creamy dairy version.

Picadillo

February 4, 2024Mexican, RecipeElizabeth AndersonComment

Picadillo is a delicious and quite unusual dish using a mixture of pork and beef. It is lovely served with rice, but any leftovers can also be used as a filling for tacos or empanadas.

Lemon Chicken

January 31, 2024chicken, Recipe, ChineseElizabeth AndersonComment

Lemon Chicken must be on everyone’s list for a take-away! Tangy and sweet at the same time, it works in perfect tandem with a simple egg fried rice, which handily uses the egg yolks not required in the batter!

Sweet and Sour Pork

January 29, 2024Recipe, ChineseElizabeth Anderson

Sweet and sour pork is such a classic Chinese dish. Once you have all the ingredients together it is, like all these recipes, very quick and easy. The pork is perfect in an air fryer,

Lentil Gratin

January 22, 2024Recipe, Vegetarian, other recipesElizabeth AndersonComment

This lentil recipe lends itself well to a spoonful of warming spices at this time of year! Keep it veggie by all means, but if you have some ham scraps then stir them in too.

Wonton Soup

December 14, 2023Recipe, ChineseElizabeth AndersonComment

Wonton soup is a popular street food in Singapore and elsewhere. Use our recipe for wontons, and then create a simple soup with chicken stock and pak choi.

Mexican Corn Soup

November 2, 2023Recipe, vegetable mexican, VegetarianElizabeth AndersonComment

This corn soup is a little like a spicy chowder. I came across a recipe using cream cheese and added this to a basic vegetable soup with extra sweetcorn and a spoonful of our Mexican mild spice.

Asian Slow-cooked Beef

October 31, 2023Recipe, South East Asian BeefElizabeth AndersonComment

This recipe for Asian slow-cooked beef is so easy and works just as well as a Sunday roast as it does with sticky rice and stir fried vegetables. A big piece of beef like this leaves lots of leftovers for trying different dishes.

Nasi Goreng

October 23, 2023Recipe, South East Asian Rice, South East Asian Seafood, Indonesian, riceElizabeth Anderson

Fried rice is a standard Southeast Asian dish – people eat it for breakfast! The Indonesian version, Nasi Goreng, uses beef instead of pork and is garnished with cucumber - but in reality the ingredients can be as varied as you like!

Beef tacos

September 25, 2023beef, Mexican, RecipeElizabeth AndersonComment

Good quality steak makes the most delicious filling for a taco in next to no time! Marinate in our Mexican blend - the hot version if you dare! - and serve with simple fresh ingredients.

Malaysian Pork with tofu and eggs

September 18, 2023Recipe, pork, South East Asian Pork, eggElizabeth AndersonComment

This Malaysian pork recipe is rich but simple. You won’t be hunting around for unusual ingredients! But sometimes it doesn’t take a lot to create something really delicious just because you have prepared and cooked it in a slightly different way. So grab yourself some tofu (and pork!) and get cooking!

Pineapple & Cucumber sambal

September 4, 2023Recipe, Vegetarian, SEA VegetarianElizabeth AndersonComment

The sour dressing works really well with the fresh and sweet fruit. Don’t worry about the ripeness of the pineapple - a less sweet one is also delicious! Try with a mango too.