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Radish Salad: A simple supper and doing fewer restaurant posts

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Radish and goats cheese salad

You may have noticed a drop in the number of restaurants posts I’m writing. From a bit of a deluge in October and November last year to just three so far in 2011. Partly this is down to eating out less as I try to breathe life back into my battered body and bank account. But it’s not just that. I’m suffering from restaurant fatigue.

This is more in the bloggy rather than the eating sense, but not totally. Making mental notes about the food, thinking about the best camera shot and worse of all, choosing dishes to fit what I want to write. It’s all got in way of simply enjoying the food. Continue reading →

A simple & hot vegetable stir fry

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Hot chilli bean stir fry with noodles

You don’t get home till 7pm, it’s cold outside and you’re knackered. But you still want some good home cooked food. What to make when you feel like this can be a real dilemma. Over the years I’ve developed a number of dishes are a good solution to this particular problem. But in the winter the number dwindles drastically and the need for something hot comes to dominate. But this spicy little number is great whatever the time of year.

It’s superbly adaptable and is ridiculously quick to make. More assembling over a flame than actually cooking. I use my magic warming ingredient: Lee Kum Kee chilli bean paste – it gives a wonderfully pungent heat to any dish and has many uses. Here it suffuses the whole dish with its characterful heat, transforming a dish that is usually very simple and clean, into something almost meaty in character. Continue reading →