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Chicken Wings, Katsu Sauce Recipe Book: Nigel Slater - Eat Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Very nice. For us it didn’t quite hit the spot for a 5⭐️ but it was still good. We had loads of sauce left so next time I’d make half the portion of sauce. It tasted a bit like satay your me even though there was no peanut butter in it. I had to substitute medium curry powder for mild as I didn’t have any mild in, but it tasted good regardless. Easy enough to make, basically chuck all the sauce ingredients in the blender. Aga conversion: I did most of it on the hot plates, I used the boiling plate for the first 5 minutes and then simmered for 30 minutes on the floor of the simmering oven. I did the final crisping you fry on the boiling plate.  Will I make this again? Yes it was good, probably just use chicken breast next time as it was a bit messy to eat though.

New Potatoes, Garlic, Peppers. Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Greenfeast (Spring/Summer)  Review: 4 stars for this one! It was really tasty but didn't blow us away. Finally managed to get hold of some Romano Peppers for this one - Aldi to the rescue! I think I should've just stopped cooking last week, it seemed like I had a mare with most of the recipes I attempted. So this is how this one went... 700g new potatoes sliced thinly - I used my mandolin on its thickest setting, prepped everything and started cooking... Using my nice new shallow cast iron casserole pan I started on the peppers - nicely done - now on to the potatoes 'cooking them in one layer if possible' Bloody hell! How am I supposed to do that I've got blinking millions of them because you said to slice them thinly Nigel!!! So my nice thin new potatoes did not go nice and brown and then just get turned over, they got cooked and cooked and cooked in the hopes of them eventually going

Cauliflower Cheese Pizza Pie (872 calories) Recipe Book: Jamie Oliver Veg (the latest book)  Review: 3-4 Stars! We had such high hopes for this one. This one wasn't quite as straight forward as I though it was going to be... I think last week I just had too much stuff on the go all at once.  The husband wasn't over keen on this one, for him he said the pizza base reminded him of Yorkshire Puddings. For some reason my sauce seemed to go runnier not thicker (it was thick when it went into the base) after I put it in the oven so mine did not come out in nice neat slices, it sort of cut with a nice crispy cut and then ran out everywhere whilst I'm rapidly trying to get it onto a plate. Has this happened to anyone else or is it just me? My opinion: as an entire dish that kind of fell apart - 3 stars - as separate parts - Cauliflower cheese...good....pizza base...good - 4 stars. Aga conversion: I used my 28cm saute pan to make this. I mainly used the simm

Orzo, Peppers. Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Greenfeast (Spring/Summer)  Review: 4 stars for this one! It was really good. A bit different from your usual shapes of pasta. I can only describe Orzo as a very smooth pasta shaped like rice, it's bizarre, you sort of look at it thinking its going to be like rice, but its not. This recipe produced way too big of a portion, of which I had already realised that it would just based on me tapping the ingredients into MyFitnessPal for some calorie counts. cooked and eaten as a serves 2 it comes in at around 966 calories, so straight away I figured I'd divide into 3 to reduce that down to a healthier 644! I couldn't get hold of any Romano peppers in Asda so I had to opt for regular red peppers and it tasted fine. I also shoved a load of parmesan on the top, as I do love parmesan on my Pasta. Aga conversion: I roasted my peppers in the roasting oven (2nd set of runners) on a baking tray for the 30 minutes and then tr

Indian Style Chip Butty (470 calories) Recipe Book: Jamie Oliver Veg (the latest book)  Review: 4 Stars! Finally! Back to better scores. I hate rating Jamie's recipes low as him and Nigella and Delia got me into cooking. This one was pretty easy to make and didn't take too much time. I did get a little confused as the photo of this looked like they were going to be smallish balls on those titchy rolls (which I didn't have). The recipe says it serves 4 and to make 4 balls so naturally my recipe should make 2 balls.... What actually happened... Didn't have any of those tiny little rolls (like in the photo) so used 2 small white finger rolls from Asda cut in to 2. Whilst making the chip filling in the pan the 2 balls I should be making looked massive! So I made them in to 4 instead, otherwise they wouldn't have fit on my now little buns! I used Asda Spicy Mango Chutney as that was what was in the cupboard. I couldn't locate a pomegranate so had to bu

                                          Toad with Browned Onions & Madeira Gravy Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Real Food  Buy the book here  Review: 4 stars for this one! It was really good. Nice and tasty, easy enough to make and very filling. I served mine with homegrown garden peas and some mash (I have batched up portions of mash in my freezer from my homegrown potatoes to make it easy), but the mash was definitely not needed. I have included the gravy recipe too. This was just as good as the Hairy Dieters one. This takes slightly longer to make, so I made this before I started on the Toad recipe. I used my local Butchers Old English sausages (thin not thick - so I used 8 instead of 6) I also used Serrano ham as the supermarket didn't have any Proscuitto or thin sliced Pancetta.  For the gravy I used regular red wine, and I also used red onions as I had some in the fridge to use up. Forgot to take a photo of the entire finished Toad in the pan! I