Chilli Up North Blog

Next up on our Mexican Feast is Mushroom Tostadas, yet another dish inspired by my visit to Wahaca last week, The recipe is a version of the Spring Tacos with mushrooms from Thomasina Miers Mexican Food Made Simple Book. I used the basic recipe for the mushroom tacos and turned it into Tostadas  as I [...]

I’ve been meaning to have a crack at a Spanish omelette or Tortilla for ages and finally got round to it tonight. All the quantities are kind of estimates as I just used what I had to hand, It was great warm but even better cold. If you are of the vegetarian persuasion you can leave [...]

After the amazing suicide wings at Hickory’s in Chester I thought I’d have a go at making some my self, I very nearly just coated them in the Smart Arse Sauce that The One Stop Hot Shop sent me, but decided that would be the easy and slightly lethal option. The idea is you can [...]

I was recently send this recipe for a really quick and simple chilli dip by Lance over at Eezee web, i’ve not tried it yet but i will be giving it a go very soon. if anyone tries it please let me know how it goes. Ingredients 1 tin chopped tomatoes 1 large onion 4 [...]

This recipe is virtually the same as the recipe I posted on my non chilli blog but It doesn’t use the chips and adds a bit of heat so If you would prefer it with out the heat check the recipe for my normal home made gryos recipe out here. I replaced the chips in [...]

Once a week we like to have a vegetarian meal, these spicy vegetable tarts were this week’s meal, you could of course add a couple of slices of chorizo picante, chicken or parma ham if you want to add a bit of meat. You could also replace the peso with ready made spicy pesto or [...]

This also works really well with pork or chicken mince. Sorry about the lack of photo, if you make it and take a photo please send it in and i’ll put it up on here. Ingredients 500g minced beef. 2 cloves of garlic 2 red chillis Ginger (grated) Lemon grass Basil Corriander Chives 1 Lemon [...]

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 while back i received the following video in my inbox, and i’m really sorry i forgot about it, strange because I actually made the eggs and they were really tasty. The recipe is part of a campaign to promote eggs and give people quick and easy recipes, from everything to poaching eggs to creating [...]

In the third and penultimate recipe in the run up to my ultimate chilli burger recipe, I give you the perfect crunch to accompany the soft, sticky sweet chimichrri peppers and the spicy sweetcorn relish recipe. These are different to the lime and chilli onion rings that I did with the spicy crusted steaks a [...]