Simple and tasty food.
I have been obsessed with Umami paste since I read an article about it in 2009. Umami is taken from a Japanese word meaning “pleasant savory taste”. It is said that Umami provides us with a fifth taste. The main four tastes that we know and love are sweet, sour, salt and bitter. So what does this fifth taste, taste like?
I love banoffee, I love coffee and I love making biscuits, so I decided to combine these three loves into a wonderful dessert. The problem with a big banoffee pie is that you need a few people to eat the whole thing, otherwise you may feel a tad guilty eating the whole big pie yourself! So, I came up with the banoffee coffee cream biscuit. Sounds like a bit of a mouthful! The great thing …
Sad as this sounds I dream of making the perfect pizza base, it’s become a bit of an obsession. No matter how hot I heat the oven, it’s never enough. I want a bubbly, toasty crispy base with lots of crunch. I dream of flaming Italian wood burning pizza ovens but know it’s never going to happen in our tiny appartment. I am constantly trying out pizza stones to increase the temperature, but to no …
I used to think that all spring rolls were just crispy deep fried parcels. However, when I went to Vietnam I discovered a whole array of healthier and tastier fresh spring rolls filled with beautiful green herbs and delicious morsels of crispy fish or meat. Spring rolls are like a mini wrap sandwich and what you put in them is entirely up to you. I adapted this recipe from a restuarant in Hanoi called Highway …
I just discovered a great new Irish beer and I wanted to share. There are some amazing new micro breweries springing up around the country and I think they deserve our support. I found this beer in a great new gastro pub – The Exchequer Gastro pub who serve fantastic food as well as having a great collection of beers. But back to the beer. Helvic blonde has all the …
Thai curry is now one of the easiest things to make thanks to the plethora of pastes available on every supermarket shelf. But what really goes into an authentic Thai Massaman curry paste, and how hard is it to make from scratch. I decided to find out. I recently got Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey and adapted my recipe from this wonderful book.