Chilli Up North Blog

The first course in our Mexican Feast was one of my favourites, It’s best done on the BBQ but works just as well on the griddle pan or under the grill. How long you cook the sweetcorn for will depend on the size of your sweetcorn and how hot your pan is. There is a [...]

I made this a few weeks ago and it went down really well, I served them with some cod fillet rolled in Indian spices. It serves 2 but can easily be up-scaled, you can also speed up cooking time by microwaving the spuds. Ingredients 1 big sweet potato 1/2 red onion, chopped 1 clove of garlic, crushed 60ml [...]

Earlier today I recieved an email from Discover the Origin Campaign, which is designed to raise awareness around five key European PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) products; Parma Ham, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, Burgundy Wines, Port and Douro Valley wines. It had some rather tasty looking recipes in, some of which even had the most magic of ingredients the [...]

I made these a couple of nights ago as a spur of the moment thing when I managed to get some monkfish.  Sorry about the lack of picture but I will take one next time I make it. It serves 2, so just buy a piece of fish that’s the size you want depending on [...]

I made this as a bit of an experiment, I love peas with mint and chilli so thought I would try and combine them into a lovely spring/summer soup ready for my fresh pea harvest. Serves: 2 Cooking Time:  10mins Ingredients: 250g frozen peas (or fresh if you have them) 300ml chicken or vegetable stock [...]

Here is my other fave soup (along with the chorizo one here  and home made mushroom soup) i got sick of normal parsnip soup so tried to make my own version Sorry if its a bit rough but i tend to do it out of my head when i make it so just add extra [...]

I was looking for recipes to help clear my recent bout of man flu, when a friend on twitter suggested i make chilli, chicken and ginger soup, he kindly provided me with the recipe and it’s too good not to share! So over to Pete…. This works best if you have some leftover chicken from [...]

This recipe was kindly sent to me by @cragchris on twitter, I’ve not had chance to try it yet but i will be sure to give it a go (along with my own version…coming soon) once my parsnips are ready. In the meantime her is the recipe, it sounds awesome and as if it would [...]

This is a spicy and flavour packed soup that will warm you up in the worst of weathers. You can leave out the chorizo if you are a vegetarian and just add a bit more paprika and garlic. If you want to add a bit of extra smokiness to the soup you might want to [...]

Every time we go to one of my favourite pubs (the lion inn) i have to have their spicy mozzarella melts so i thought i would try to create something similar my self. If you don’t have a deep fat fryer then fill a big saucepan up with oil, leaving a few cm gap from [...]