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Thai Red Chicken Curry
My eldest daughter has just gone off to university, so over the next few months I will be picking up the Anarchic Kitchen again to provide great tasting and good value recipes. Some of these were taught to me at Manchester University by Leo (Tse Chung Man) who I shared a flat with and who […]
Thai barbecue prawns with chilli salt and a red curry bisque
This combines french, chinese and thai cooking to try to get as much flavour out of the prawn as possible. The prawn is butterflied in the shell and lightly oiled and then barbecued very hot. But before barbecuing you use the heads as well to make a thai style bisque. The red curry bisque. 2 […]
8 Course Dinner
Clearly I go too far and push the boat out. On my last birthday we had fewer people and I tried more courses. It all worked well. i will share recipes, but for now just a few pictures of some of the courses.
Slow cooked beef agnolotti with a sage butter sauce
I haven’t posted for ages, but my guests last night thought this was great. In fact i have lied about the title as I cooked the beef in a pressure cooker to speed things up. 1lb shin of beef 1 bottle red wine 1 carrot 1 onion 1 stick of celery 200 ml beef stock […]
Tomahawk steak, grilled courgette and herbed butter bean salad
this is just great basic food well cooked, or indeed with the butter beans not cooked. 1 tomahawk steak 2 courgette 1 jar of butter beans 1/2 pack baby tomatoes 2 tbl good quality olive oil 1 handful of fresh mint, parsley and corriander 1 tbl of n’duja For the butter bean salad buy good […]
Wood Roasted Prawns
Incredible ingredients simply cooked. Ingredients As many large prawns as you can afford – deveined and butterflied 1/2 pack of butter salted Head of garlic – crushed Method Heat a wood fired pizza oven to it hottest – around 450C. Put prawns in a cast iron skillet pan. Melt butter with crushed garlic. Pour over […]
Wood Roasted Bream
Two Medium Bream These were medium to small bream, which are better in the heat. Salt the outside and place in a lightly oiled stone cooking dish. Don’t preheat. Put the fish in the oven for 2-3 minutes each side. The skin will crisp each side. Take it out and leave for 30 seconds. Then […]
T-Bone Wood Roasted
1kg T-Bone Steak Garlic butter For the stea k, get a griddle pan, put it in the oven to heat up. Season the meat liberally. Cook for two minutes on each side. Then stand it up and cook for 2 minutes with the skin facing the fire, 2 minutes with each side. Take it out […]
Wood Roasted Garlic Prawns
15 king prawns (head off and deveined) 100g butter (melted) 2 garlic cloves crushed Salt 1 tbl olive oil Put the prawns with the other ingredients into a roasting dish. Roast in the pizza oven for 60 seconds, turn the prawns, roast for 90 seconds. Take out. Check they are cooked and eat.
Surf and Turf – Wood Roasted
L ike Cats for Christmas a pizza oven isn’t just for pizza. A pizza oven can do so much more, and much of that is about hot cooking of food. So get the oven properly hot. Fish skin roasts crisp. Beef gets beautiful caramelisation. The challenge is that you can end up with food raw […]

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