Fresh wholesome Coleslaw

Inspired by Jamie Olivers recipe for coleslaw I had a go at doing my own. This is a quick dish to prepare or make it earlier and keep in the fridge.
Ingredients
Carrots
Cabbage – white or red or mixed
Spring onions
White turnips
Yogurt
Virgin olive oil
Herbs – chives, chervil
Lemon juice
Use a food processor with a slicing attachment to slice all [...]

Crispy fish with pea puree

Needles
Originally uploaded by Mr_Chips
I got this recipe from Xanthe Clay and Loyd Grossman in the Telegraph food column. Its just the thing for supper for the ravenous rambler as its quick to make.
Ingredients
Two large haddock fillets
2 tbsp flour
1 egg
4 tbls breacrumbs
mint leaves
1 lemon
13ozz peas
1 cup of rice
Put the rice on to cook as [...]

Gumbo

Camping kettle
Originally uploaded by Mr_Chips
This is an easy dish to do after a long walk in the country. Its a cold winter’s night and you don’t feel like doing much work in the kitchen yet you are starving hungry and want something fresh and fulfilling.
Ingredients: chicken pieces, prawns (frozen), onion, celery, pepper, leeks, [...]

Baked Salmon with soured cream

This recipe is based on one from Nigel Slater and it makes a nice change to just plain baked salmon. It is q quick and easy dish to do so ideal when you have come home from a tiring walk.
Ingredients
2 salmon steaks
1 small onion
4 fl oz of soured cream. I use creme fraiche
1 tbsp lemon [...]

Apple crumble

Apples
Originally uploaded by Mr_Chips
Apple crumble
Nick and Alison dropped round for tea on a Saturday afternoon and as we had a large piece of pork for dinner it was great to ask them to dinner as well. The only thing was – what could we have for a nice pudding. I looked in the [...]

Zen and the art of bread making.

Bread
Originally uploaded by Mr_Chips
Baking bread is not just a chore it’s a philosophy. The Tao of Bread if you don’t mind me mixing my philosophies. Something that is simple yet complex. It is part of many cultural histories. The bedouin of the Sinai desert have it right. When you are resting under the shade of [...]

Ice cream

We had a delicious Polish Christmas eve dinner with some friends and had this served with apple streudel that was delicious and exotic all at the same time. So I decided to make it for our New Year’s Eve feast along with the Marmalade and whiskey bread and butter pudding and I must say that [...]

That New Place

That New Place
Originally uploaded by Mr_Chips
That New Place, South molten
Morning coffee
One of my favourite places in South Molten.
There is a great coffee stall in the covered market where you can buy coffee but best of all sit and have a cup where you can properly look around at the locals and make some [...]