Haggis and Clapshot...

Shiitake Chicken Ramen...

Homemade...

Having 'discovered' the joys of ramen at the Bishamon Sapporo Ramen restaurant in Singapore, I set out to try and recreate the flavours once back home. Easy to make and delicious - as good as I'd had in SG...

Bishamon Sapporo Ramen

Italian Sausage Stroganoff...

Found this one by mistake - searching for a review of a restaurant - and thought it sounded good (it's got sausage in it!) and turned out to be tasty!


~450g Minced Beef
5 or 6 Italian Sausages (pork with fennel or anise) or use Lincolnshire sausage
Tin cream mushroom soup
water (equal amount to tin of soup)

3 tbls of sour cream
Garlic
Oregano
Chilli powder

Celery chopped
Onions roughly chopped
White mushrooms quartered
flat ribbon pasta

Method:
De-skin sausages and cook with beef until cooked adding garlic, oregano and chilli powder - remove from pan and drain off fat. Add celery, onions and mushrooms to pan with small amount of fat to cook until done.
Add meat back into pan and stir in, then add tin of mushroom soup and same amount of water.
Add sour cream and stir in.

Serve over plate of flat pasta ribbons

Gin & Tonic Jelly...

MAKES 1 LARGE JELLY RING OR 4 INDIVIDUAL JELLIES

INGREDIENTS

    * 150ml (¼pt) water
    * 150g (5½oz) caster sugar
    * Juice and zest of 1 lemon
    * 125ml (4fl oz) gin
    * 200ml (7fl oz) tonic water
    * 5 gelatine leaves
    * Lemon and lime wedges

METHOD

Pour the water and the sugar into a pan, bring to a gentle boil for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the lemon zest. Leave to stand for 15 minutes.

Pour into a measuring jug. Add the lemon juice, gin and tonic - top up with more if it does not reach the 600ml (1pt) mark.

Place the gelatine in a shallow bowl and cover in water. Soak for 4 minutes. Squeeze out the excess water, then whisk the gelatine into 30ml (1fl oz) hot water. Stir this into the lemon syrup until combined.

Pour into a ring tin and leave to set for 6 hours. To unmould, dip the tin in hot water for a few seconds. Turn out the jelly and fill the inner circle with lemon and lime wedges.

Tri-tip...

Char-Roasted Sirloin Tri-Tip from Buckhorn Grill in the Westfield Mall Food Court in SF.
Can food court food really be this good?...

Apparently it can!

Breakfast pizza...

One of my favourite pizzas - beaten egg (in place of the usual tomato sauce), bacon, sausage, mushrooms and cheese...