My wife has been bending my ear for weeks to come up with a new dish to serve over polenta and this Mushroom Ragu is the sign of my capitulation. To be honest she even started hinting in the height of summer. She just lurves polenta!
These slow roast duck legs are cooked in the most incredible sweet and sour date and tamarind sauce. This recipe has some serious cohones in the flavour department.
This garlic spaghetti recipe is my take on olio e aglio… Except my version definitely leans towards Northern Italian produce rather!
Dandan noodles or dandanmian as a Chinese dish from the Szechuan province. It typically contains chili oil, ground pork, Szechuan pepper and some form of preserved vegetable, ordinarily mustard stems.
This pork with prunes recipe is what I would call bistro food. It should be the sort of food that pubs and restaurants can knock out of the ballpark every time. Simple, quick, and cooked with few ingredients. It is simple enough for a home cook to make but also fancy enough to make you feel special if you are served it.
It is definitely warming comfort food season and my chicken hotpot recipe definitely fits into that category. Flavour filled chicken thighs are cooked on the bone in a roux-thickened sauce. A sauce that is flavoured with wholegrain and dijon mustard and some thyme.
The idea behind this stuffed leeks recipe came from a Hungarian magazine I was flipping through. I love leeks, they are the mildest of the onion family and never really thought of using them as a way to hold together a stuffing before.
I have used the phrase many times here on krumpli, a curry is never just a curry! This chicken dhansak recipe is another one that demonstrates the diversity of that simple name.
These roast pork chops represent a slightly different approach to cooking than my norm. What can I say I like to play and change things up in the kitchen. I guess you could call this a casserole or a stew, throwing things together and getting them to cook in the oven is something I don’t often do.
The classic Italian pasta and bean soup, pasta e fagioli is a hearty simple big flavoured soup. Whether it be a minestrone or ribollita the Italians have a fine portfolio of comforting simple soups.