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Coronation Chicken – “The Ultimate Curry”!

Heston Blumenthal has a reputation for creating the weird and wonderful when it comes to cooking. He therefore, possibly wasn’t the obvious choice in rustling up a traditional Jubilee picnic in the gardens of Buckingham Palace at the weekend.

Parippu Vada (lentil fritters)

This is a simple South Indian style recipe by one of our Guest Chefs, Sheba Promod.

Parippu vada is a savoury snack, which can be enjoyed at any time of the day and goes really well with a hot cuppa!  These lentil fritters are crunchy, mildly spicy and somewhat meaty in their texture.  This quick and easy recipe is made from a combination of sweet and spicy flavours.

Curried Goat for the Jamaican Olympic team

Jamaican athletes will have some of their finest native cuisine flown 5,000 miles to the UK, including curried goat and yam.

Curry Ice Cream to celebrate the Jubilee

In Celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee a Soho gelateria is offering something even stranger…

Eat Curry to lose weight?

If another day of reaching for the salad leaves you feeling glum, there is an…

Spicy fish and cucumber salad

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This spicy fish and cucumber salad is a Southeast Asian dish with a contrast of…

The Queen gets spicy!

An American artist has paid homage to Her Majesty’s longevity by painting her but with a twist….

Eating spicy food will cool you down!

When you’re sat soaking up the sun what kinds of food run through your mind? Maybe ice cream, fresh salads or fruits such as watermelon? Well recent studies have found

Bollywood Dancing – The new Celebrity Fad!

They’re all doing it – Madonna, Gwyneth, Shakira and Holly Valance. Bollywood dancing is the new celebrity fad, with all manner of famous faces shimmying their way into great shape.

Mee Goreng Ayam

This is a simple Malaysian style recipe by one of our Guest Chefs, Norman Musa of Ning.

Norman is on a mission to spread the word about Malaysian food across the country and the whole of Europe and he suggested this recipe to us as a good introduction to Malaysian Cookery.

When hot is hot and when hot is just average?

When you look down the menu in an Indian restaurant, how do you make your decision on what to eat?

Can the British curry take off in India?

British chefs took their version of curries back to India. But did the British curry prove a hit with those used to the real thing?

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