This one is based on a recipe from Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s Kitchen . Since I don’t yet know where to buy farika, I’ve only ever used bulghur wheat. Why one would use tequila or vodka instead of the white wine,…
Category: Poultry
JO’s Chicken Kebabs
From Jamie’s Kitchen . Planning serves: 4 preparation time: 1½ hrs cooking time: 10 mins Ingredients 500g chicken breasts, cut into 2½cm cubes 4 courgettes, sliced thinly lengthwise 4 long skewers (or fresh rosemary sticks, lower leaves removed) 1 hfl…
Coq au Vin
This really should be made with a cockerel cooked for about three hours. However, cockerels being notably absent from most supermarkets, this more readily available version uses the ubiquitous chicken. Do try to buy a good one; it really is…
Chicken Tagine
On a visit to Uzès in France one year, we ate lunch at a Moroccan restaurant serving tagines. I became completely hooked and tagines have become a regular part of our diet. Preserved lemons are, in my view, so essential…
Chicken Green Curry
In Thailand, I kept trying other meals but I kept returning to their well known green curry. The term curry is something of a misnomer being borrowed from Indian cuisine by the British. The Thai name refers to a spice…
Charcoal Roasted Duck
Normally I’d call this “barbecued” but, since this requires indirect cooking in a kettle barbecue, “charcoal roasted” seems to be a more accurate description. This is simply a pleasant way to cook a duck so the fat runs out and…
Authentic Paella Valenciana
This is apparently how an authentic Paella from the Valencia region (where it was developed) is made. The claim that it is the authentic version was made on an Alicante website and it also appears to match precisely the one…