Had this last night having not cooked it for a long time, I'd forgotten what a great flavour it had. If you cant get monkfish then any white fish will do.

1½ tsp ground turmeric
1 tsp salt
1lb monkfish, filleted, deskinned and cut into 1 inch cubes
16 large cooked prawns (I bought a 200g pack which was about right)
1 large onion
2tsp Cumin seeds
2tsp Coriander Seeds
2tsp black peppercorns
4 cloves garlic (1 heaped tsp lazy garlic)...

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The following 2 recipes have been modified, improved and generally messed about with over time to get them to a point where I am happy with them. Being able to do a biriyani in the oven is excellent since this can be left to its own devices whilst you work on other dishes.

Heres something to keep you going, I like this recipe since the cup size for it does not matter as long as you use the same cup (mug) size for all the ingredients.

Pulao Rice

This makes...

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This recipe was posted by Karma mechanic on this thread, it is excellent so I decided to post it to the blog so I and others can access it as need be.

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After the chilli harvest last year I was left with a load of chilli’s and no idea what to do with them. Having asked for some advice I was told to put some chilli’s in vodka to make a nice flavoured drink.

The person who suggested it didn’t specify the exact amount so, since I liked chilli’s, I thought what that hell. A small bottle of vodka was purchased and into this half bottle went 12 small birds eye chilli’s and 2 scotch bonnets. I didn’t really expect much so I popped the bottle...

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What's all that about? I saw an advert yesterday for microwave baked beans. Have we, as a country, become so lazy that we cannot even open a tin of beans, throw the contents into a saucepan and stir for a few minutes.

I know some will argue convenience, no need to do washing up, you can be doing something else whilst your beans warm up but come on, seriously, what exactly are you going to do for that 1 minute? Is it really really important you have your beans in 1 minute?
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