This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Recently, I reviewed the The Japanese Larder , the second book by chef, food writer and supperclub host Luiz Hara. Good news: I have permission to share three great recipes from the book with my readers. Here’s the first, for Luiz’ Marmite chicken. Coming soon, Japanese style mabo dofu and Yuzu rhubarb crumble. This is one of ... Read more »
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. If you’re looking for an introductory cookbook to Thai cuisine, check out Easy Thai Cookbook by Sallie Morris published by Watkins and Nourish. Split into three sections, the book provides an introduction to key ingredients, equipment and cooking methods, 70 recipes with colour photographs, and twelve suggested menus for how to put the ... Read more »
Chicken Society is a large, on-trend casual restaurant in the heart of Central Finchley, less than 100 yards from the tube station, and right behind a bus stop serving a number of local routes. Open a year this December, it was launched with the aim of sharing the owners’ “love of all things chicken“. Inside ... Read more »
Wishing all who celebrate the Chinese New Year a healthy, happy and prosperous one. ‘Kung hei fat choy’ (Cantonese) or ‘gong xi fa cai’ (Mandarin) to you! To celebrate the new year of the rooster, we have another wonderful guest post by my friend Diana Chan. The Chinese lunar new year has just begun. Each ... Read more »
I’ve attended many, many, many cookery classes over the years. I’ve enjoyed nearly all of them but a few have definitely stood out from the crowd, and those include every class I’ve ever taken at School of Wok. There is a great balance between fun and learning, with class sizes of 8-16 ensuring that everyone ... Read more »
The name of this dish may not roll off the tongue, descriptive though it is. But I promise you that it’s easy to make and absolutely delicious. It’s just the recipe for those occasions when you want to make something a bit special, unusual and impressive but are short on time and not in the ... Read more »
I am sometimes a little wary of cookery books focusing on a single ingredient, as some of them have a core of fabulous recipes padded out with a bunch of weak page-fillers. But Diana Henry’s A Bird In The Hand is a wonderful exception, chock – or should that be chook? – full of appealing recipes ... Read more »
If you love chicken, Diana Henry’s A Bird In The Hand is a wonderful cookery book, full of amazing chicken recipes such as this one. Read our review of Bird In The Hand, here. This recipe for Chicken with Pumpkin, Cream and Gruyère blew me away. As you can see, it’s such a simple recipe ... Read more »
I’ve been trying to nail Southern Fried Chicken for quite some time. Some recipes call for the chicken to be brined before cooking. Others marinade the meat in buttermilk instead. Some recipes don’t feature brine or marinade at all. Some cooks coat the chicken with nothing but flour and spices; others use buttermilk or an ... Read more »
Britain isn’t known as a nation of offal lovers, but we certainly eat it. It’s highly probable you’ve eaten offal before as it features in a several popular national dishes. Haggis is made by stuffing a sheep’s stomach with liver, heart, lungs and oats. Faggots are balls of minced pork and pig offal wrapped in ... Read more »
The Place of Onions, in old Lille. After last night’s rainstorm the intense sticky heat has broken and today is cool, breezy, fresh… I love it! A drop of… [more]
We went to Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire at The Void this morning, an amazing VR experience where we got to be Rebel Alliance members going undercover as… [more]
Landed in beautiful, crazy, hot, humid, hectic Bangkok this afternoon. Follow along via #kaveyeatsthailand. We settled in to our all-suites hotel, freshened up and headed out for a very… [more]
