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Sour Chicken Curry
I have the recipe of this with duck, but I just can't get my head around such fatty poultry.
So I thought I'd give it a go with chicken and it was delicious.
My new flavour of the month is tamarind.
I've never used it before and it's sourness just adds such an interesting and tasty dimension to the dish.
I served it up with cooked pasta and veges. When pasta was cooked I mixed in with the curry.
Ingredients
2T tamarind paste
whole chicken or chicken pieces
1.5C water
1T ground coriander
1t ground ginger
1/2 t ground turmeric
1/2 t ground cardamom
1/4 t paprika
1 chicken stock cube
2T plain flour
2T water, extra
1T chopped fresh coriander
Method
1.If you've bought a whole chicken cut into pieces. Combine chicken, water, ground coriander, ginger, turmeric, cardamom and paprika in medium saucepan, bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer, uncovered for 5 minutes.
2. Stir in tamarind paste and stock cube, bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer uncovered for about 20 minutes or until chicken is cooked.
3. Blend flour with extra water, stir into duck mixture, stir over high heat until sauce boils and thickens. Stir in fresh coriander just before serving.
Serves 4.
When I first started this blog it was to record the antics, quirks and episodes of running a small cafe/takeaway shop in a beachside village on the far north coast of NSW.
Through it all we have shared our weird and wonderful customers, the joys and hardships of running a small food shop including winning our business award.
Now, we are on to a new stage. Just this week we accepted an offer for the shop and our baby is sold.
We've given birth to this amazing business, from a rundown and closed ice cream shop to a thriving and growing gourmet sandwich takeaway cafe, it's now time to allow our 'child' to move on to other hands.
The blog has since grown to include all our home cooking experiments and food news that I find, but the business hubbie and I started has now outgrown us and llike all parents we are sad, yet happy to see it take on a new life.
We wish the new owners all the best as we continue on in our own foodie adventures.
I am now a journalist editing the local community paper with an interest in all things foodie and hubbie is now looking to find some work in the food industry.
We will continue to fight over who has charge of the kitchen and who will cook dinner each night, but guaranteed that means we will have some interesting recipes to share on this blog.
The 'donana' which is a mixture of a donut and a banana
Sometimes when I look for new and quirky things happening in the world of food, I only need to look in my own backyard, or in this case, kitchen.
I came home from work one day where my older son and husband had been creating their own form of afternoon snack. Below is the 'article' that my son wrote about it.
My father and I made a new made-up food and it's called a "chocolate eyed donana" it's made out of chocolate, a donut and a banana, you put the banana through the hole of the donut and stick the chocolate in the top of the banana and you'll macke [sic] eyes and it tastes sweet. Caleb, 8 years.
A slice of spicy pumpkin cake
I love any recipe that has the word 'spicy' in it and for those who read my other blog 'Vintage Foodie', you will know we have an abundance of pumpkin at the moment.
So what could be better than a recipe for Spicy Pumpkin Cake
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Our 15 piece pack (minus two wings eaten previous to this photo)
It's very rare that we buy fast food but when we do the food of choice is KFC. (I'd like to say here, I got over the Kentucky Fried Chicken taste after my twenties but some habits die hard in my husband).
We decided on the 15 piece pack as between two adults and two children we figured that would be plenty for dinner plus some leftovers
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The finished product that the boys wolfed down.
I had been craving pizza for a couple of days so thought I may as well get some home-made jobs happening.
My boys loves helping in the kitchen so I figured they may as well make their own
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Spinach frittata or for little boys, Cheese pie
I can't take any credit for this dish as my hubbie made it the other night. He certainly did something right as our younger son (5 year old) ate the whole thing and he doesn't even like eggs.
It may have been the fact that my husband kept telling him it was a cheese pie
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After only 3 minutes in the microwave you have chocolate cake
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't tried it myself.
Firstly, I just want to say in regards to my previous post, I tried the recipe with chicken mince and added some chilli and sour cream rather than ricotta. Much better
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The lamb, spinach, ricotta and egg pies could have packed more punch.
I wanted to try something just a tad different from meat and three veg which is hubbies signature dish so the above recipe seemed to fit the bill.
I don't know what it is with ricotta cheese but it is so BLAND
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Masterchef judges Gary, George and Matt.
Now don't get me wrong, I love the show and I am definitely not vegetarian, although I do enjoy vegetarian meals.
But watching the show and the importance they put on tasting a meal and the amount of meat they cook, I wonder how anyone who is a vegan or claims any level of vegetarianism can make it on the show
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