I won’t beat about the bush, Wahaca is somewhere I’ve wanted to go ever since I head Thomasina Miers of Masterchef and Mexican Food Made Simple had opened her first Mexican restaurant. Unfortunately for me all of the restaurants are situated in London which is something like 260 miles away and not somewhere I go to very [...]
Set against the spectacular backdrop of Elizabethan Levens Hall, the fourth Lakes Chilli Fest will be held on Saturday and Sunday the 13th and 14th of August 2011. Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m on both days, visitors to the Chilli Fest can also explore the world famous gardens with its distinctive topiary, herbaceous borders, [...]
Last weekend we popped down to Chester on our way to do some walking in Wales (which you will be able to read about here and here sooner or later) After a day that included a few beers, a rather sweaty pedalo trip and more than it’s fair share of Romans we headed for Hickory’s [...]
When I was in Asda on the way to work a couple of mornings ago, I noticed this Piri Piri Chicken meal for one and having forgotten my lunch I decided to give it a go. It’s part of the chosen by you range and is chicken with long grain rice, red onion, peppers, spinach [...]
This is another modified Jamie oliver recipe, to give it the Chilli Up North twist. Instead of fresh chilli you could always use chilli chocolate. It’s also quite nice if you replace the nuts with coffee beans. Ingredients 200g digestive biscuits 110g whole pecans, roughly chopped 110g pistachio nuts, peeled 12 glace cherries 2 fresh [...]
A couple of weeks ago the lovely people at WKD sent me a couple of copies of their new book “The Good Kebab GuideL A Salad-dodger’s Guide to the UK’s Best Kebabs” It’s a light heated look at some of the best kebab houses and take aways that grace our green and pleasant lands with [...]
Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts, things have been kind of crazy lately, my chillis all got wiped out by a bad batch of compost so my greenhouse is looking a little bit bare at the moment. I decided against buying any replacement plants or planting any more as we are going away [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some rather delicious chilli jelly sweets, not only was I lucky enough to recieve them but Friars of Keswick also sent some Chilli Fudge. The fudge was excellent, it was really crumbly, sweet but not too sweet and had a really subtle chilli flavour that built up [...]
Chillis are the flavour of the month in the new asda magazine, you can get a few recipes from their website including some rather tasty looking choc chilli brownies you can see them by clicking the link below http://www.asdamagazine.co.uk/2010/01/chillies/ Wikio Wikio
It’s that time of year when I need to start thinking about what I am going to grow, start cleaning the greenhouse, washing all my plant pots, ordering extra seeds etc etc. I really should be planting my chilli seeds now but it’s still a bit cold with all of this snow we have been [...]
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