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Chicken and Bacon in a Mustard and Cider Sauce
2019-09-12 12:21

This is a fairly lazy meal, particularly if you want to cheat any buy pre-made mustard and cider sauce. Lazy, but tastes good.

You can make it a little healthier by substituting the cream out for something with less fat, though I personally wouldn't skip the lardons as they may be the only reason this is so tasty

Carrot and Cumin Bean Burgers
2019-07-18 13:28

I've been experimenting with making meals without meat in them, the idea being that we could (once or twice a week) potentially have a meatless meal - bringing food costs down, as well as introducing a bit more nutrition variety.

This is a slightly amended version of Jack Monroe's "Carrot, Cumin Kidney Bean Burgers". In the original recipe, the Cumin does most of the flavouring work, and we just felt like it was missing something...

In the photo, they're served in a pitta bread with tomato chutney and mixed leaf salad - Also had wedges on the side.

Double Chocolate Raspberry Brownies
2019-07-07 14:01

These came about because we decided to make brownies, but I couldn't be arsed to deal with melting chocolate so wanted to make them with Cocoa only. Was a little bit worried that it'd result in a loss of volume though, so wanted to add something to bulk it back out.

My cake pan is actually too large for this recipe, and my mixing bowl too small to make more in one go. So, rather than buying and storing yet more kit, the approach we tend to take is to make one set of the mix, measure out new ingredients and then make another set. This means you can do layered stuff like (in the pic) having a darker layer with just raspberries in it beneath a lighter layer with raspberry and white chocolate

The volume loss of not having the chocolate isn't actually that great though (the coca increase offsets it quite well), so you can just as easily leave out the raspberries and white chocolate if you prefer straight brownies.

Korean Egg Bread (Gyeran-ppang)
2019-07-07 11:31

This recipe is for Korean Egg-Bread, usually served as a street food and known as gyeran-ppang. It is, in essence, a (small) loaf of sweetenend pancake batter with an egg baked in.

Basically, I saw this video and thought... WANT. If nothing else, Koreas a bit far for a weekend jaunt, so I had a hunt around for recipes online, and then tweaked them slightly to suit my taste.

So, there's no claim that this is particularly authentic, but it does make a good snack or breakfast.

Chickpea, Peach and Potato Curry
2019-07-03 12:24

This is an adjustment of Jack Monroe's Peach Chickpea Curry.

It adds some potato (not only do I like curried potato, but I fine I need the bulk) as well as increasing the spice. To offset the increased spice, some raisins are added to contribue sweetness (plus they absorb curry juice for a delicious taste).

It's easy to cook, and doesn't require too much effort.

If you keep a little back when serving, then the next night you can re-heat, mix into pasta and serve with chopped sausages.

Lazy Dirty Fries
2019-06-26 12:57

Dirty fries are awesome.

If you're doing it properly then really you want to be slicing potatoes, lightly frying them into chips and then using those, but that takes more time and effort than I'd normally have spare on a weekday evening. But, for 10 minutes prep you can quite easily make them using some frozen chips.

In the picture, I've used low-fat cheese, but be aware it doesn't melt as nicely as the proper stuff (it doesn't turn into a runny gloop). Tastes fine, but isn't quite the same.