Chilli Up North Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Inspired by last week’s trip to Wahaca in Covent Garden I decided to cook up Mexican feast using my Mexican Food Made Simple Book. I will post the recipes up over the next couple of days but I’m staring with this one in which I tried to re create the drink I had at Wahaca. While It doesn’t [...]

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 [...]