Paneer Kadai
Wonderful curry. The instructions are a bit wandering and easy to misstep, would benefit from reinterpreting a little. Only modification was to fry the paneer a little initially. https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/kadai-paneer-gravy-recipe/#wprm-recipe-container-37738...
Japanese rice in a Multi-cooker
This is the first time I’ve ever been impressed with non-pot made rice, indeed this was notably better than any Japanese rice I’d ever made in a pot. So I’m re-producing the recipe here for posterity in case the source vanishes. The source is here: https://www.justonecookbook.com/instant-pot-rice/#recipe And it’s a...
Chicken & Barley Stew
Excellent, comforting stew, well proportioned, rich flavour, warming and hearty without being stodgy. Big fan. The parsnips were nearly omitted, which would have been a grave error such was their importance to my enjoyment. Well done parsnips. You can’t really go wrong with a check stew given enough time...
Brown Butter & Plum cake
Wonderful brown butter icing, which I would use in many circumstances; fresh, home made plum jam that I deliberately made more liquid than a normal jam – resulting in some… slippage; dense sponge… Feel like I haven’t figured out the reverse cream method yet… Worth investigating. From https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/sep/06/plum-and-brown-butter-cake-recipe-benjamina-ebuehi...
2025 Catchup
Dan Dan noodles Pan fried hake fillets and … something Risotto and horrible extra firm tofu – Always a mistake. Tom Yum / Sweet & Sour soup Rhubarb & Meringue thing...
Lamb & aubergine houmous
Don’t go too heavy on the houmous, a thin layer rather than a mound. Masses of the aubergine would be a better balance, in my opinion. Very good though. Efforts to make the lamb as tender as possible are, needless to say, beneficial. And getting is as flavourful as...
Fried fish fillet
Put this together on a whim, and it worked remarkably well, certainly worth repeating. large white fish fillet potato flour or corn flour plain flour yoghurt Put the flours and yoghurt on three separate plates season the flours Thinly coat the fillets in the potato flour coat in yoghurt...
3pm Biscuits
I love these. They are dangerous. From Sift...
Borscht
Using oxtail, and reducing cooking time by pressure cooking. However this is fiddly! It’s a lovely way of ensuring things are cooked exactly as you like, but so much effort to separate the hob cooking and bulk stew cooking like this… I’d be interested to see if something similar...
Kale, sausage and black bean stew
I liked for it’s speed and simplicity and general goodness. It’s a wonderful treatment of kale, and I would do it again. It is missing… Something. A bit of depth? Earthiness? Maybe there was just too much zing? Not sure, honestly. But it was good, and would probably improve...