Category: Recipe Shed

  • Salt – An Epicurist’s Delight

    Mum! Dad! Don’t touch it! It’s Evil! Salt? No! Get thee behind me, Saltan!  Don’t use it when you’re cooking, if you must, add it afterwards. But then you’re the spawn of Satan and must burn in Hell along with everyone who has more than half a sugar in their tea. What complete and utter tosh.…

  • Additives – The Good Side! – #RecipeShed

    Additives.  Bad things chucked into pre-prepared foods to make them last longer. E-numbered somethings that we don’t really trust. Yes.  And, at the same time, no. Additives.  Those little tweaks you make to a recipe to personalise it, make it your own.  I enjoy these additives, I have 100% control over when and where they’re…

  • Garlic & Ginger Paste – #TopCurryTip

    Go ahead and grab a curry recipe.  Just about any will do.  If you’ve not got one handy, there’s a Keema Aloo here on this site that will work for demonstration purposes, open it in a new tab.  Failing that, pop over to The Curry Guy’s site, he’s got hundreds (and they’re all winners, especially…