Chilli Up North Blog

This is based on the Hairy Bikers chicken curry from their latest (and excellent) book “Mums Know Best”, they used chicken and it didn’t have the veg in, i also added a few more chillis to spice it up a little bit.
It takes about 10-15mins to prepare then I put it in the slow cooker [...]

This is an adapt ion of a Jamie Oliver recipe  that I spiced up a little, you can also use jarred red or green pesto if you are after an even quicker fix and just add some dried chilli or chilli flakes.
Serves 2
Ingredients

1 x 400g cod loin fillet (skinned and boned)
1 pack of parma ham

for the pesto if you [...]

I was recently contacted by some nice people via twitter who sent me a press release regarding Nando’s National Chilli Week,  It started on the 23rd and runs all week, this was news to me, I’ve been in a little bubble all of my own for a the last week or two so I thought [...]

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 the [...]

Sales of fresh chilli peppers have increased by 42 per cent over the last two years, as consumers have become increasingly adventurous in their cooking.
The small spicy vegetables have ballooned in popularity in recent years, transforming from a small niche, bought by aficionados, to becoming mainstream, according to trading figures from the research company TNS. [...]

Seelings are coming on well now,  my tom’s, courgettes and cucumbers will need potting on at the weekend as they are getting too big for the propagator. A few chillis have appeared but still waiting for most of them.
here is a of a few of them

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This is a lovely warm drink for a snowy feb day:
Ingredients:

180ml Milk
1 red chilli deseeded and cut in half.
25g of grated chocolate, i used 72% cocoa.
sugar or honey
pinch of cinnamon
whipped or squirty cream

Method:
Put the milk in a pan with the chilli halves and cinnamon, bring to the boil then remove from the heat and set [...]

This was an experimental dish i made last night so it might need a bit of tweaking but here is the recipe any way.
Ingredients (serves 2)

2 pieces of cod loin
2 tablespoons of honey
2 tablespoons of sweet chilli sauce
1 red chilli, finely chopped (can de seed if you wish)
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
Pinch of pepper
1 tablespoon [...]