Archive for August, 2009
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Cooking in a hotel
I just had to post this – for all my cooking on the road, and ‘surviving’ by making sure I eat a good meal of an evening – it just never occurred to me to try to cook in a traditional 3 star hotel. Sure – I’ve had a crack at cooking in a motel [...]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
I don’t mind the rain… I’m Welsh
Taking my lead from Mr Dalton, this weekend saw us planning a ride up to Yea and back via a whole collection of roads that you really shouldn’t take a gixxer on – but Mr Dalton, being Mr Dalton – a farm boy from New Zealand type – ignored such advice as ‘you haven’t got [...]
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Moules Marinières
We’re onto the fourth video in my cooking on the road series and this week I take a look at mussels. They’re cheap and when you’re near the coast you can’t beat them for a quick and easy meal. An excellent source of Selenium, and vitamin B12, and a good source of Zinc, and folate, they also have a [...]
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Chicken and Bean-curd Stir-fry
Next in the series of cooking on the road videos is Chicken and Bean-curd Stir-fry – a recipe by Peter from Oslo in Norway via horizonsunlimited.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7M9dWSIIs) Ingredients: sunflower oil 2 chickenbreast garlic green paprika sugar peas spring onion cabbage beancurd/light miso unsalted cashew nuts Method: Cut everything into thin slices,except the sugar peas and [...]
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Keeping up the series of on-the-road recipes today I had a crack at a meal suggested by Flyingdoctor (Allan from Staffordshire in the UK) from horizonsunlimited.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c5uk-fNUoo) Ingredients: Chicken Breast Red / Green Pepper Packet Chinese Sauce Method: I brown off the cubed chicken an onion and some green or red peppers then chuck in one [...]