American family somehow use their noodle without the help of Jamie Oliver
While hosting a Korean exchange student last year, my children were utterly taken in by what he ate for breakfast. Noodles. It wasn’t long before my entire tribe of kids was calling for Noodles for breakfast, too. Any why not? They are warm, hearty, and kid-palate friendly. Whether it be breakfast, lunch or dinner, I’ll bet your kids will love this basic bowl of noodles as much as mine do.
We eat this particular noodle dish a lot – it's great for busy work nights because you can make it in a flash and as long as you have mince, noodles and chillies, the rest of the ingredients are optional-ish. We eat a less spicy version than we used to in deference to the Small Girl, but make a little bowlful of fish sauce and chopped red chilli to drizzle over ours. Quantities are approximate so don't worry about weighing everything to the last gram.
Traditional Irish potato dish neither Irish nor contains potatoes reports confused cook on Paddy’s Day.
There’s a weird thing I have to tell you: this candy is not Irish. Another strange thing you should know: this candy does not have a trace of potato in it. It is, however, a traditional confection from Philadelphia made from coconut, cream cheese, butter, and sugar. If you don’t think that coconut, cream cheese, butter, and sugar make a winning combination? you must not like me very much. That’s a shame, really.
I've finally tracked down a decent version of General Tso's chicken (左宗堂雞) in London. Never having had a proper rendition of this American-Chinese dish before, I wasn't sure quite what to anticipate. That said, it felt more real compared to my previous brush with what turned out to be a fake General.
Total marmite dish. While I couldn’t shovel this down if my life depended on it, my bloke reckons it looks divine
A dreadful thing has happened: I am too busy to cook. If I’m at home of an evening then I’m so dog tired that I just need something fast, tasty and relatively healthy before I fall asleep in front of the telly, glass of wine in hand. Octopus on toast is ticking all those boxes. I buy ready-cooked baby octopus in oil, chop them up, mix with herbs, chilli and lemon, pile on toast and sprinkle with a little good EVOO. You can find cooked baby octopus in fishmongers, or they are readily available uncooked in Asian supermarkets (a cheaper option). You can also buy octopus morsels tinned in major supermarkets.
Have you got a glass of pickled beets lurking in the back of your fridge? If yes, then you could use them for making this colourful and lovely quiche. The otherwise sweet beets have quite a piquant flavour when pickled, and that works well with the saltiness of the blue cheese. I used Valio AURA, one of my favourite blue cheese (made in Finland), but it will work with any other crumbly blue cheese
I love happy endings…
When I stared into my bereft vegetable drawer while I clutched at a bag of minced pork, my mind grew blank and I thought about getting a takeaway. My thriftiness kicked in though, and a plan was formulated to bring together the odds and sods languishing in my fridge. Bedraggled parsley leaves, an abundance of coriander stalks, truly they should have been destined for the bin. Instead, along with a sorry wrinkled green chilli they got blitzed right up with some fruity extra virgin olive oil…
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