Scones

350g self raising flour,  75g butter cubed, 4tbl spn sugar, 1tbl spn salt, 1 tspn baking powder, 150g natural yoghurt, 4tbl spn milk, 1 egg to glaze. Raisins if you like.

Add flour, salt, sugar baking powder to a bowl

Add butter and get your fingers in the bowl and rub till its well mixed

Warm milk and yoghurt in the microwave for 1 min

Add this to your dry mix and blend in quickly using a butter knife.

Once you have a dough cut into small rounds. Fold in some raisins if you like

Glaze them with an egg and bake for 15mins on 170 deg.

Jam and cream to serve (and a cup of tea)

Enjoy

Pizzzaaa

Cheese,tomato, red pepper, onion, mushroom, sweetcorn and chorizo. Nom nom nom.

Pizza time

Friday night pizza time

Pan fried tuna steak with a medi style tomato sauce

In a pan went some chopped tomatoe, a hand ful of prawns and some dried italian herb.

Soften up some diced onion and mushroom in some hot olive oil. Added these to the sauce.

Flash fried the tuna steaks for about a minute and a half each side.

Start to finish 15mins.

Delicious.

Homemade pizza night

Made a few home made pizzas for friends...went down a treat, especially the thin crust honey caramalised onion garlic bread.

Chicken and sweetcorn pizza

Homemade chicken a sweetcorn pizza. Start the week like i mean to go on.
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3 duck egg omlette

3 duck eggs,smidge of milk, salt, pepper. Fy it up with mushroom honey roast ham and melt some cheese ontop

Awesome

I love cake

When you have a hangover the best cure is cake.

microwave pizza

im having a microwave pizza.  This is because i am pissed and im hungry.....

Stay classy.

Add some Sole to your cooking

Lunch today:

Sole fillet poached in milk served with baby new boiled potatoes and baby leaf spinach.

(Prep and cook in 30mins)

what you need....

couple of fish fillets

1 cup milk (full fat, semi-normal or that other type will do)

1 knob of butter

1 tablespoon flour (for thickening...corn flour is best)

a small bunch of chopped parsley

sprinkling of salt/pepper to season

white pepper

How to make it...

Place your fish in a large frying pan (remember to switch on or you wont get anywhere)

Add milk.

Cover and bring to the boil.

Reduce heat and simmer gently for 10 minutes or until fish flakes.

Carefully lift fish from pan and keep in a warm oven

Add butter into to a different pan and melt.

Stir in flour and cook until frothy.  If too thick, thin out with a little milk, if too thin add a little flour....make sure you add flour slowly or you'll get lumps and bumps in your sauce.

Take the milk you poached the fish in and put it into the mix....stir it constantly and add your parsley.

Season with salt and pepper to taste.  Hey presto! sauce.

Pour sauce over fish.

Enjoy!!

...Im not going to tell you how to boil potatoes or cook spinach as if you've got to this point you are probably a culinary master!!


Thanks for stopping by!

Corries Curry.....Lamb Rogan Josh

Constructing a curry from scratch can be quite easy.  All you need is a bunch of herbs and spices and the meat of your choice.  The end product will be much more tastier than the jar of pre-made sauce!....

So here is Corrie's Curry for tonight: 

Lamb Rogan Josh, served with Pilau rice and garlic and coriander naan.

What you will need.... (this serves 4 or 1 very hungry curry lover - prep and cooking from start to finish approx 2hrs)

2 onions (chopped)#

3 cloves of garlic (chopped)

500g of meat (Lamb in this recipe)

300ml of chicken stock (use a stock cube - lets keep it simple)

Oil for frying

4 Cardamom pods

1 Cinnamom stick

2 tspn ground Cumin

2 tspn ground corriander 

1 tspn chilli powder (or Garam masala - an indian mix spice)

1 tspn turmeric

4 tbspn natural yoghurt

1 tbspn tomato puree (something i forget so i just used ketchup - stay classy)

Additionally (for garlic an corriander naan)

Naan Bread

butter

2 crushed garlic cloves

sprinking of coriander leaf

Right here's what to do....

Whiz the onions and garlic into a purée using a hand blender (or if you don't have one chop them really fine)

Next heat the oil in a pan (that has a lid)

Add the Cinnamon stick and cardamom (let them sizzle, take a waff of the fragrance)

Add your onion and garlic, a pinch of salt and the tomato purée.

Once the onion is soft and golden add the lamb (or other meat)

Next whack in all the other spices...no particular order...give it a good stir around.

Add the chicken stock pop on the lid and bring to a nice simmer for 1hr 20min or however long it takes to be nicely cooked (Stir occasionally).....add the yoghurt at the end.

Rice

Make whichever rice you like!

Na Na Naaan!

For your naan breads....

In a small microwavable pot put a big lump of butter and microwave until melted (not too long though)

add the garlic and a sprinkle of coriander....

Now smear this all over your Naans (not your Nan - she wont appreciate it)....cook the bread as it says on the packet...

Enjoy!

Corries curry club

The finished lamb rogan josh.  1hr30 to make less than 5 to eat.....

The side dishes include chopped tomatoes, spring onion and coriander and mango chutney.....

Rita Rudner

“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen” 

― Rita Rudner

Vietnamese Cobbler

Vietnamese river cobbler is a easy to cook, readily available and sustainable fish.

 I've read a lot on this inter web about how people have fell ill after eating it and that its from the way they farm it...but i think that's, well, just a load of old cobblers.....

The only advice I got on this fish was 'throw it to the seagulls'.....

Tonight I pan fried the fish and served with a prawn, chorizo and tomato sauce.  On the side I had a fair sized scoop of Moroccan style couscous.

For the sauce I placed in a pan 1 tin of chopped tomatoes,, 4 cut up slices of Chorizo, 3 diced fresh tomatoes, half a blitzed onion, 1 clove of garlic (using a blender into a puree) and some Italian dried herbs.

I brought this to a simmer.

I lightly dusted the fish fillets in flour and pan fried them in olive oil for about 5 mins a side.

Just as the fish was ready I blitzed the sauce with the hand blender and added some fresh prawns (or shrimps)

The plate it up and enjoy.  Was quite a light dinner and full of goodness!

Thanks for stopping by.

Good morning Everybody

Wakey wakey breakfast corn-flakey.....

Two Dippy-duck eggs for breakfast.  I prefer Duck eggs to hens eggs (if i can get them).  There have more taste and the yolks are bigger and more colourful.

....and you cant have a dippy egg without soldiers.....

Ray wings are peculiar things!

Ray wings are peculiar things!

On tonight's menu... Ray, oven baked with a honey and onion glaze with a side of baby spinach and carrot/potato mash.  I decided to stick with what I know and cook up a recipe that can complement any chunky slice of fish.

From the cupboard...
1 Onion (only me eating tonight)
2 cloves of garlic (will keep the vampires away)
Some runny honey
White wine vinegar
....and the fish of course (although that didn't live in my cupboard, that would just be silly)
Potatoes carrots and spinach for the side
I could have also done with a sprig of Thyme, a bay leave and some Rosemary...none of which i had....  


Firstly I chopped up an onion into thin slices, loosely chopped 2 cloves of garlic.  Then I fried these off until brownish and soft in some lovely olive oil.

At this point I also had my potatoes and carrots starting to soften and the spinach in another pan ready to do at the last minute

Add a splash of white wine vinegar let it sizzle.

Now add a good dollop of Honey (dependant on how sweet you want it) and let it go all runny and gooey.  At this point I would ass the Herbs but as I didn't have any I did without.

So now I decided to trim the Fish just to make it a bit neater and get rid of some of the big bones ( I cant be bothered to be picking bones out/choking as I'm eating.

I scooped some of the honey drizzle onto the fish and rolled it up.  The rest i left aside to put onto it later.

The rolled up fish was put in the oven and baked on 180-190 for about 20 mins.

With 5 mins to go i poured boiling water on the spinach and left to do its thing....I mashed the spuds and carrots....Bish bash bosh.

Plate the spinach up, at the mash on top, add the fish, finish with some of the left over sauce.....

Although it was very tasty ( I would expect anything less -ha) i would probably pick a less boney specimen next time such as Cod or another chunky fishy friend.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ray Wings?

Well Hello there! thanks for stopping by.

I was in my local supermarket yesterday and came across 'Ray Wings' on the fish counter...

I cant say I've ever had these and really know what to do with them, but I bought them neither the less..

Lets see what I can cook up tonight.....more follows.

Think its time i started a blog to tell you what's going on in my kitchen...

My name is Andrew Corrie

I've been asked to start a blog about what's been going on in my kitchen.  

More recipes/photos and ideas to follow........

 Above: Sea bass served with mushroom and spring onion sauce on a bed of fresh pasta salad

Below: Home-made stuff crust chorizo pizza.