moyashi soba
Typical absurd simplicity from Wagamama. Stir fried garlic, courgette, leek, onion and green bean mixed with noodles and chicken stock. I wish I could elaborate, but that’s it!
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confit byaldi
My presentation’s not quite there, but if you squint you might recognise this as the critic-pleasing dish from the Pixar film Ratatouille. That’s technically what this recipe is, but this is it as reinvented by the chef-genius Thomas Keller, who christened it confit byaldi. Spoilers ahoy, but in a scene that should make Heston applaud, as the grouchy critic chomps […]
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…Or it might be jambalaya. I’m not sure what the criteria is. It’s rice ‘n’ stuff in one pan, anyway. My old chum chorizo makes a special guest appearance, but it’s the vegetables that do the work in this one. I fried the chorizo a bit to char the edges and encourage their spicy-sweet juices to leak out, then put […]
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Another one from Nigella: a filling, warming bowl of food that assuages post-Christmas guilt. Relatively simple, tin tomatoes, whatever veg was to hand (courgette, cauliflower, onions, carrots, peas), stock and some Gary Masala, boiled up for a while and dotted with coriander. Served with a chewy, fluffy naan, it’s seriously comforting.
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