Author: Janet Davies @pigeoncottage
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Catchcumber salad
Most Asian families have a favourite recipe for this salad a version of which is served with meals at any time of day. I make it as a side dish for pretty much all my curry or Asian BBQ menus. My version uses tomato, cucumber and wafer thin slices of red onion with plenty of…
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Goan-style beef curry
I normally make curry sauces thickened with yoghurt but this delicious Goan-style beef curry is made primarily with rich beef stock and coconut (toddy) vinegar. Chunks of beef are braised in the spiced stock and reduced to a dark, silky sauce that has a pleasant background heat from black pepper and whole dried Kashmiri chillies.…
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Pasta shells with broccoli and anchovy sauce
This recipe originally comes from the Apulia region of southern Italy. Anchovies are used in lots of savoury dishes and here they combine successfully with broccoli cooked so it still has a little bite to it, and shell-shaped or orecchiette pasta topped with Parmesan and a crisp pangratto crumb. Pangratto was used in poorer households as…
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