My Cullen Skink
Cullen Skink is a traditional Scottish dish, a hearty soup that includes white fish, smoked fish and potatoes at the very least but often also includes cream and other seafood. Similar to chowder, it can be served as a hearty meal-soup but is often served as a first course on formal occasions in Scotland.
Sicilian casarecce with caper and anchovy tomato sauce
This recipe for Sicilian casarecce with caper and anchovy tomato sauce is simplicity itself with few ingredients, healthy and delicious. All it takes is a little time to cook down to perfection. It's from one of my father's journals of recipes he collected on his travels in the 1960s and 1970s.
Easy Malaysian beef curry
This easy Malaysian beef curry is very simple; easy to slow-cook, but ensure you allow enough time for it. The dense flavours of the beef and coconut are balanced by fresh green flavours, in this case green beans and choy sum, These are all wrapped in the heady flavours of lime, ginger, lemongrass, cloves and nutmeg, among numerous others.
Lebanese white fish en papillote
This Lebanese white fish en papillote (i.e. cooked in paper) is a very easy recipe that, with the right side dishes, creates a very interesting meal, no mean feat if you also want to keep it very low-fat, as it is here. Rich, deeply flavoured regional grains and a succulent side salad offset the simple, delicate flavours of the fish.
Low-fat bean chilli and grilled king prawns with white corn tortillas
It's that time of the year when we all try to make our New Year resolutions stick. So, this low-fat bean chilli and grilled marinaded king prawns with white corn tortillas is timely as a motivator to not give up. Dripping with spicy, fresh flavours and enough down-home comfort, it's a reason to not throw in the towel too easily.
Durban beef curry - KZN curry stories 3
Durban beef curry has a reputation for fieriness that has made it famous around the world. But, as this slow-cooked authentic recipe proves, it's not entirely about the hot spices and hearty beef that makes this curry a thing of beauty. A plethora of vegetables, herbs and spices are what come together to make it memorable, not to mention its unique history.
Pasta with creamy sweet red pepper and pancetta sauce
A recipe for pasta with creamy sweet pepper and pancetta sauce with notes of fresh basil from Genoa. It is simple and fairly quick to make, but delivers way beyond expectations if you pay attention to a few small details.
Cantonese glazed pork belly with vegetables
Cantonese glazed pork belly with vegetables, served with egg fried rice, is a dish from the archive of recipes my father collected in Hong Kong in the 1960s. The pork belly is first roasted or grilled with a glaze, very similar to char siu, before adding to wokked green vegetables and bamboo shoots and serving with egg fried rice.
Galician fish with vegetable and chorizo stew
This Galician fish with vegetable and chorizo stew is my take on a delicious regional dish that is all the better for cooking two meals at the same time. Delicious white fish—cod, haddock or the like—is paired with a slow-cooked stew of potatoes, carrots, onions, green beans, chorizo and various other delights.
