Chilli Up North Blog

Paella is one of those things that seems to differ depending on who you talk to and where you go, I’ve never been a fan of the ones crammed full of fish and tomatoes, I tend to prefer the meaty ones, especially the one I once had with rabbit in. This is a super simple, [...]

I know you are all probably sick of Ham and Gammon after the festive period but now is a great time to buy a nice big ham as they are on offer just about everywhere. This is pretty much a Jamie Oliver recipe out of a little booklet that my future mother in law gave [...]

Pork shoulder has to be one of the best cuts of meat available, It’s cheap, packed full of flavour and can be cooked is lots of different ways, as a result I’m  a huge fan, whether it’s hog roast, BBQ pulled pork (like in Hickorys) or Slow roast spicy pork for Sunday roast  it’s always [...]

If you don’t live in Teesside and haven’t been there, you probably haven’t heard of the the Parmo, if not you can readmore about it here. Basically it’s a heart attack waiting to happen, cheese, fried chicken and bechamel sauce, which can then be topped with all sorts of delicious treats such as mushrooms, chilli [...]

I’d bought an Old El Paso Crispy chicken fajita kit  a while back and not used all of the seasoning for some reason, when I discovered the leftover packet in the cupboard I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. As much as I’m not a fan of the kits and preffer to [...]

This was the final course in our Mexican Feast, it was probably one of my favourites, I served it with loads of homemade home grown tomato spicy salsa and cooling guacamole. This is yet another recipe from Mexican Food Made Simple by Thomasina Miers, although I used butternut squash instead of onion squash  and used red onion [...]

A couple of days ago I recieved a press release along with this delicious sounding recipe that I thought some of you might like, obviously I’d spice things up a bit with a little bit of chilli and by using a hot and spicy chorizo. There’s also a chance for the budding cooks reading this [...]

This is a bit of a work in progress but I thought I would share it in case any of the vegetarians out there could give me any tips on getting it to bind together a bit better. I did think an egg would would but not sure if I like the idea of egg [...]

This is a beefed up version of the curry I used in some prawn puri that I made a few weeks ago, while the puri were a huge success the curry was without doubt the star of the show so here’s the recipe, I will post the bread recipe at some point too. Serves 4 [...]

This recipe is taken straight from Jamie Oliver’s website and Jamie’s America Book, I made it last night and it was absolutely delicious, the only thing I changed was I used a bit less stock (5ooml) and chucked in a big squirt of spicy chipotle sauce. I used Morrisons the Best Pirri Pirri Sausages to [...]