芋粿巧 Sticky savoury taro cakes

After talking to an old school friend from back home about Taiwanese street food, I was hit with a hankering from 芋粿巧 ("o gui kiao" in Taiwanese), a type of savoury sticky taro cake. So I forked out nearly 7 euro for a 600g fresh taro from Thailand at the Asia Market to make some myself. 

Fried sticky savoury taro cakes with sriracha

Honey sriracha chicken

Watched how sriracha sauce was made on 'Food Factory USA', and it inspired me to make honey sriracha chicken legs for dinner.

Honey sriracha chicken

Louisiana barbecue chicken

Louisiana barbecue chicken drumsticks with grilled pineapple, broccoli, vine tomato

Cinnamon rolls

This is a recipe adapted from the Wheat Free Market. 

Cinnamon roll with cream cheese frosting

Steak on the bone

I picked up what was billed as T-bone steaks from the butcher's last week. When I was preparing them for dinner last Sunday, I wasn't quite sure what I was given was in fact T-bone. I mean, where is the T in the bone? 

Grilled steak on the bone, roasted garlic, potato wedges, steamed broccoli

Easy beef pot roast

I treated myself to a 29cm oval Le Creuset casserole a couple of weeks ago. The first dish I made with it was the Taiwanese three-cup chicken, a nod to my roots. But to really test out the cookware, I made a simple pot roast with neither bells (herbs/spices) nor whistles (thick gravy). 

Beef pot roast

Pan fried gurnard with lemon butter

In the spirit of trying something new (and having fish at least once a week), I picked up a few fillets of gurnard and pan fried them for dinner. Apparently, gurnards are bony and lacking in flavour and so they are usually quite cheap to buy. And indeed, at €8.90 per kilogram, they were the cheaper ones on offer at my local fishmonger. However, while bony and lean, they were still quite flavourful. But that may have to do with the knobs of butter and dashes of fresh lemon juice I used.

Pan fried gurnard with lemon butter, served with brown rice spaghetti with garlic, courgette, pesto

Roasted pork tenderloin

This is a quick and easy way to prepare a delicious pork main. You can mix your own blend of spices.

Roasted pork tenderloin with pickled cabbage and carrots

Lemon chia muffins

This is adapted from the Wheat Free Market's recipe for lemon poppy muffins. It can be doubled to make a dozen muffins. 

Lemon chia muffins