Note on indexing: I have divided the recipes into regional cuisines, then type of dish. Within each region, the types of dishes and individual recipes are filed in English alphabetical order. Recipes may appear more than once depending on overlapping categories.
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MouthLondon articles: You can also look at the list of recipes I’ve written on MouthLondon. There may be content overlap, and I use a tighter, less ruminative style of writing. YMMV!
Thai
Basics
Fried Garlic Oil
Perfectly Fluffy Brown and White Jasmine Rice in a Rice Cooker
Curry
Gaeng Hang Lay (แกงฮังเล) – Northern Pork Curry with Ginger and Garlic (with links to recipes for fresh curry pastes and powder mixes)
Chicken Panaeng Curry (พะแนงไก่) – A mild moderately hot (if using good quality, properly fried curry paste) coconut milk curry with fresh makrut lime leaves and, in this version, enriched with peanuts.
Pork Panaeng Curry with Pea Aubergines (พะแนงหมู) – As above, but more fresh and herbal as I eschew peanut butter and add crunchy little aubergines and sweet basil.
Desserts
Coconut Sticky Rice with Mango
Coconut Sticky Rice Pudding with Sweetcorn
Mini Fak Thong Sangkhaya (ฟักทองสังขยาจิ๋ว) – Coconut custard steamed in munchkins (kitchen experiment! please improve upon this.)
Drinks
Cold Coco and Thai Iced Tea
My Mother’s Pandan-Scented Soya MIlk
Kind-Of Thai, I Guess?
Black Sesame Brownies
Pear, Dark Chocolate & Black Sesame Brownies
Pears in Palm Sugar Syrup
Pumpkin and coconut custard tart
Rice Noodle Soup with Ham and Watercress
Slow-roasted Potatoes and Jerusalem Artichokes with Coriander, Pepper, and Garlic
Thai-style Omelette with Herbs, Pork, and Chilli – a lifelong favourite. Quick, easy, so flavourful.
One-dish meals
My Dad’s Thai-style Hainanese Chicken Rice/Khao Man Gai (ข้าวมันไก่) for Two (or One with Leftovers) – I think each household’s got a different way of doing KMG. This isn’t what you’ll find in the KMG shops in Thailand. It’s the version I love best.
Salads
Carrot Som Tam (ส้มตำแครอท; vegetarian)
Sauces
Sweet Chilli Sauce (น้ำจิ้มไก่)
Soup
Gaeng Jeud with Pork Bones, Watercress and Glass Noodles (แกงจืดกระดูกหมู)
Old-Fashioned Tom Yam with Chicken (ต้มยำไก่)
Stir-Fries
Cabbage with Fish Sauce
Chicken and Green Bean Chilli Stir Fry
Cucumber and Egg Stir-Fry (แตงกวาผัดไข่)
Pad Cha: Spicy Stir Fry with Young Green Peppercorns
Pumpkin and Egg Stir fry
Stir-fried Kale with Chilli and Garlic
Chinese
Braised dishes
Flory’s Red-cooked Aubergine And Minced Pork (Hongshao Qiezi)
European/North American
Breakfast
Blood Orange & jaggery + Porridge with buttery oats
Porridge – toasted oats, London honey
Baking
Savoury:
Caramelised Onion tarts
Mushroom and Stilton Tart
Goat’s Cheese, Caramelised Onion, Honey & Rocket Flatbread Pizza
Pork Pot Pie with Apple and Herbs
Sweet:
The Original Banoffee Pie
Blueberry Boy Bait
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting, tiny and naked
Chocolate Chestnut Cinnamon Sandwich Biscuits
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Cake
Cranberry Chocolate Orange Shortbread Biscuits
Custard Creams, Heart-shaped or Not
Flies Graveyard
Hazelnut Brown Butter Cake
Lucky Apple Pie
Marshmallow and Chilli-Chocolate Brownies
Melt-in-the-mouth Shortbread
Nigella Lawson’s Cranberry Mincemeat (non-alcoholic; 2012) + ground almond pastry
Peach & Crème Fraîche Pie
Pistachio Citrus Pound Cake
Rhubarb & Orange Swirly Buns
Sally Lunn Bread
Spider Web Halloween Biscuits
Star-topped Cranberry Mince Pies (2011)
Basics
How to Prepare Chestnuts that are Nearly Painless to Peel
Confectionery, Sweets, Candy
Blood Orange Marshmallows
Home-made Candy Corn
Rose, Raspberry, and Lychee Marshmallows – with egg white + animal-based gelatin; have included a link to a vegan recipe.
Vanilla Crème Fraîche Salted Caramels – a variation of nama caramel.
Desserts
Double Rainbow Trifle
Drinks
Blood orange honey cinnamon yoghurt drink
Christmas Spiced Fruit Punch (non-alcoholic)
Fresh Lemon Honey Ginger Drink
London Fog/Earl Grey Tea Latte
Simple Home Made Lemonade
Leftovers
Bubble and Squeak – in cakelet form, to maximise browned crisp faces
Main Courses
Meat:
Simple Salt Roast Chicken
Pasta
Linguine with Sausage, Tomato and Dried Chilli
Pasta Salad Primavera
Pasta with Chorizo, Garlic, and Mixed Greens
Ribbon Pasta with Slow Roast Tomatoes and Fried Garlic Oil
Short Pasta with Pumpkin and Parmesan Sauce
Spaghetti Algio Olio Peperoncino
Spaghetti with Slow Roast Tomatoes, Garlic and Fresh Peas
Tagliatelle with Duck, Orange and Thyme
Tomato Sauce with Butter and Onion
Preserves etc.
Clementine Marmalade
Fine-cut Blood Orange Marmalade
Medium-cut blood orange marmalade – June Taylor-inspired, with reduced sugar and lots of fruit pulp.
Rhubarb & Banana Jam – should be classic a combination as rhubarb and ginger: tart rhubarb, vanillary banana, sweetly tender fruit.
Raspberry and Lemongrass Jam
Seville Orange Marmalade – the bittersweet strong stuff, medium cut.
Shimmery Winter Fruit Jam with Festive Spices – pear, plum, cranberry and orange jam which tastes like Christmas.
Salads
Broad bean, slow-roast tomato, fried garlic oil
Lentil and chickpea salad with coriander, cumin, and fried garlic oil
Sandwiches
Smoked Mackerel, Cheddar Cheese and Nam Prik Pao Toasted Sandwich
Soups
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
Vegetables
Potato and Courgette Latkes
Potato, onions, butter, cheese
Slow roast tomatoes
Eating Around London
Meals I’ve taken and enjoyed.
Revels 2013, Middle Temple Hall
Around Snacks Never Relax
A largely self-indulgent, hopefully somewhat amusing series which showcases my everyday snacks and nibbles which inform those who are unfamiliar with British/Thai/Asian snacks, and elicits solidarity (or outrage) from those in the know.
- Milo, Latin, Ursula Le Guin
- Grafton Buns
- Rhubarb & Rose Jam + Custard Doughnuts + Chocolate Cake
- Banana Chocolate Chip Pancake Ice Cream from Chin Chin Labs
- Linden Honey + Buttered Muffins + Thoughts on Taking Pictures
- Norwich – Biddy’s Tea Room and Other Stuff
- Cajeta Cashew Crunch ice cream from Chin Chin Labs
- Full-fat Greek Yoghurt + Sweet Things
- Seville Orange and Cardamom Ice Cream
Travel
It was about time, I s’pose.
Assorted Ramblings
Largely text-based thinky-thoughts leavened by some pictures. No recipes or instructions.
Assorted Ramblings A: Food-related + personal
- 14th Nov 2009: Loy Krathong 2009
- 2nd Dec 2011: Sometimes fresh egg noodles just don’t cut it
- 12th Oct 2012: Too much of a good thing.
- 14th Oct 2012: Recent Foodening: Fish and Chips, Slake-Moths, Nitro Ice Cream, Pop Corn Cake
- 10th Nov 2012: Kitchen Experiment II: Coconut Custard Steamed in Squash (Sangkhaya Fak Thong, สังขยาฟักทอง)
- 17th Nov 2012: The Baked Peartato
- 27th Nov 2012: Loy Krathong 2012 at Buddhapadipa Temple, London
- 4th Dec 2012: Honey and Mustard from Norwich
- 6th Dec 2012: The Fields Beneath – coffee and other worthy local edibles in Kentish Town
- 17th Dec 2012: Christmas Tree Ice Cream by Chin Chin Labs (and Other Christmas Tree Things)
- 31st Dec 2012: 2012 Re-cap with Food Round-up
- 1st Jan 2013: Fifty Shades of Grey and the Jaded Gourmet’s Breakfast
- 11th March 2013: The Hummingbird Bakery ‘Home Sweet Home’ Book Launch
Assorted Ramblings B: Unrelated to food + personal + London
- 17th Jul 2012: Oh, dear, I’m not very good at this blogging thing…
- 20th Jul 2012: Can I tell you a bit about how I’ve been lately?
- 20th Oct 2012: The cold.
- 11th Nov 2012: Wat Buddhapadipa, Wimbledon: Loy Krathong 2012
- 21st Nov 2012: Cosy Winter Whatnots
Assorted Ramblings C: Unrelated to food + personal
The Furious Pear Pie 