This week I’ve temporarily relocated to dad.ie to write a quick piece on feeding kids and coming up with nutritious home-made alternatives to the type of food kids like. First up is Home Made Chicken Nuggets. Quick and simple and very tasty. As the comment says it can also be adapted for more mature palettes [...]
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Sweet and Sour Fried Onions
Hard to beat the simple dishes like sausage, mash and onions. Here is a quick and simple way to tart up some fried onions. Ingredients Two onions Two teaspoons balsamic vinegar One tablespoon of honey Olive oil Method Fry the onion in some olive oil until golden. Add the balsamic vinegar and honey and cook [...]
Pesto Sauce
We’re still plodding our way through January (will it ever end?) and coming to terms with 2010 so I guess the first effort at making something this year should not be too taxing. Home made Pesto sauce is quick, easy, and far better than any of that stuff in a jar. Tastes better and probably [...]
Roasted Red Onion with Bacon, Garlic and Herbs
During the winter when our thoughts turn to roast dinners we rarely entertain the idea of including roast vegetables preferring instead to boil the arse out of our veg in a pot and consume them through a straw. Roasting veggies seems to be somewhat of a Mediterranean concept and one that seems yet to catch [...]
Homemade Stock
Here’s a nifty follow-on from the home made stuffing a few weeks back and keeping with value theme. A roast chicken does great between the four of us and maybe some left over for a sandwich or two. However, throwing out the carcass felt like waste to me I looked up how to make stock [...]
A Whole Lot of Stuffing
Everybody likes stuffing, nothing better on a Sunday than a roast chicken and plenty of stuffing and in these dark days of economic depression anybody interested in saving a bit of money, in fact a lot of money relative to what it would cost you to buy, should really consider making their own. It’s dead [...]
Yassi’s Lemon Spuds
As messy-chef is proud to serve and because JD asked nicely then it’s time to post the Lemon Spuds I mentioned in the post about SuperValu doing cheap chicken (pun intended). It’s actually Yassi’s recipe, not mine, so I’ll give her the credit. Happy St Patrick’s Day! Ingredients: (for 2) 5 or 6 potatoes cut [...]
Parma Ham, Goats Cheese and Sun Dried Tomato Salad
Feb 5th 2009: I’ve updated this to include the wine recommendation below. Apologies for the rehash of an old post but I thought Lar had a great idea to match wines with recipes from different food blogs. It’s a fun way to navigate the different food blogs out there. Jan 14th 2009: Work has been [...]
Quick Chicken Curry
We go through phases at home where we cook a lot of curries and then don’t do any for ages. Maybe its time to get back into it while the weather is still nice and cold. Here is a curry recipe I learned from a friend a few months back. It takes about 5mins to [...]
Make your own Big Mac with Todd Wilbur
I happend accross a chef called Todd Wilbur at the weekend. Apparently Todd, based in Las Vegas, has sold a couple of million recipe books on how to clone food from chains such as McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and KFC. He used his lab (kitchen) to reverse-engineer things like Twinkies and Big Macs, once he finds [...]
