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Here are the people who make it all, you can easily buy the sauce online from them, and here is how you do it...
Sweet Chilli Prawns
1 knob of butter
8 raw King or Tiger prawns
half a chargrilled 10" tortilla
1 tbs Hot Sweet Chilli Sauce
1tbs fresh chopped coriander
2 splashes of single cream
juice of half a lime
Heat a knob of butter in a large pan or wok and fry King Prawns for a minute or two until they start to change colour. Add the Hot Sweet Chilli Sauce, coriander and lime juice and stir for one minute. Add the cream, turn down the heat and cook the prawns through for a couple of minutes. This will also thicken the sauce.
Chargrill a pre cut tortilla and roll to make a cone. When the prawns are cooked spoon them in the cone and lay it on your plate and pour the sauce over the prawns. Serve with a handful of baby leaf salad as a garnish.
Friday, 30 March 2012 14:27

Writing about Food

Here's a challenge. A writing competition for foodies. You might be better at it than us.

Monday, 26 March 2012 13:43

Another food festival...

We have been asked to give this a mention, so here it is. This is the first food and drink festival of its kind to be held at Henham Park Nr Southwold, in the lovely setting of the historic walled garden. Over the two days of the Festival, the aim is to celebrate and publicise the amazing variety of food and drink available in East Anglia. Local, regional and national firms will exhibit and there will be a special children’s activity area. Cookery demonstrations and talks will be held throughout both days and those purchasing food will be able to store their shopping in a chilled store. Day entry is £6 for adults and £3 for children aged 12 – 16, under 12’s are free. For more details and to buy tickets please visit www.flavoursof2012.co.uk.

Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:09

London - the East End street food tour

oysters     coffee and pastries

This three hour tour takes you through the foodie paradise of Bethnal Green in East London - from the famous and beautiful Columbia Rd flower market for fresh morning coffee and pastries from Italy,  to Brick Lane, the home of curry, with foodie stops all the way.  Jamie Oliver comes here to buy his Vietnamese street food and even the kebab vans are good.  So we can try fresh oysters; beigels stuffed with salt beef or smoked salmon, traditional Cockney pie, mash and eels and home made baklava - from the traditional shops that have been here for years, and from the fabulous new street food vendors that cook here at the weekend.

pie_n_mash

The tour is £10 per person, runs most Saturdays and Sundays and meets at Hoxton station. You buy your own food throughout but don't worry, it's mostly under a fiver and you'll easily walk it off! It starts at 11.00am going for coffee, and ends at 2.00pm with whatever you liked best...and there is even a Cockney cashpoint to get your money out in rhyming slang!

Send me a message for details of the next tour dates and how to book.

the street art    columbia_cafe

food_tours    salt beef beigels

Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:02

School Dinners (but in the staff room)

I have just visited a school where there was a Spanish cook in the staff room, making home-made meatballs and salad for the teachers as they came in for breaks. It's a long time since I have been in a staff room but this one has changed my mind...from nescafe and cheap biscuits to tapas - 7am to 5pm every day.
Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:25

Pod

This is how fresh healthy local food is done at Pod in London. We had the lamb meatballs and they were really nice but the juice was from Bradfield Combust - hooray for Pod!
Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:02

TOWIE...

mark-wright...for food as well as fake tans and big white teeth, at the Essex Food Show, and if you look at the exhibitors list you will see lots of them are our friends from Suffolk. 

Saturday, 11 February 2012 14:19

Salt Fish fritters

If you can get salt fish try these, the fish needs soaking overnight and smells horrible but the flavour afterwards is worth it. Just make a thicker batter than usual, add the shredded salt fish, some chopped spring onions and chili, and fry until crisp. Mmmmm... 

Friday, 03 February 2012 14:14

the Salt Beef bagel

From the original London home of real bagels - Brick Lane - we joined a long queue that moved faster than you can get your money out and enjoyed the perfect £3.50 breakfast/brunch/lunch/teatime/midnight snack. Bursting with meat and oozing with mustard and pickle, you can see them being steamed and baked out the back, being filled out the front, and they are open twenty-four/seven.

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