Chicken Gumbo

Gumbo is a dish from the southern states of the USA, in particular Louisiana. When I first started to collect recipes I pasted or copied them into a file and about twenty years ago I wrote down a recipe for Chicken Gumbo featured on the BBC Food & Drink programme, which I made not long after.   It can also be made with seafood, [...]

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Grilled Chicken with Sumac & Roasted Banana

I was intrigued by the rusty red slightly acidic tasting powder which was liberally sprinkled over our dinner in our local Turkish restaurant.  After enquiring, the waitress told us it was Sumac and I realised that I had read about this middle-eastern seasoning not long before in foodie biography set mainly in Egypt.  When I [...]

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Roasted Lemon Chicken

I often abandon traditional roast dinners in the hot weather, but this zesty lemon flavoured dish has a ’summery’ feel and would be good served with salad, although it could equally as well be eaten with potatoes and vegetables.  The original recipe was called Chicken with Spicy Potatoes, which was how I first served it, except I successfully used [...]

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Chicken with Orange & Mint

I usually do not like the combination of meat and fruit together, but I broke my own rule for this as it didn’t seem as if it would be too sweet. I was proved right.  The recipe was very simple to cook and absolutely delicious.  The chicken was beautifully tender in a buttery orangey sauce with the hint of mint [...]

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Spicy Chicken with Chickpea Couscous

Adapted from a recipe cut from our local newspaper, the Waltham Forest Guardian and a very quick and simple supper dish, once the oven is up to temperature. The original is a Waitrose recipe which I have since found on their site.
The original recipe suggested a vegetarian alternative, replacing the meat with butternut squash or [...]

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Spanish Style Chicken with Red Peppers

Having arrived back from a wonderful few days in Barcelona and still marvelling at the extraordinary genius of Antonio Gaudi and his fellow Modernist artists and architects, I decided we ought to eat one of our favourite Spanish style dishes.
I adapted this dish from a recipe by food writer Keith Floyd taken from his book [...]

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