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Beer and Cheese Bisque – Cooking with Beer

November 8, 2018 by Christian Gott Leave a Comment

As a marinade for meat or poultry, beer penetrates, flavours and tenderizes. Good beer is less acidic than wine so your food can be left in your marinade longer increasing the flavour. When you are roasting or braising and beer is used to baste the food or in the basting sauce, it imparts a rich, dark colour as the sugars caramelise. So, cooking with beer is great for adding flavour to BBQ’s and slow cooked casseroles and stews.

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Filed Under: Allergens, American Cusine, Cooking with Beer, Dairy, Ingredients, Lunchtime Dishes, Soup, Starters and Snacks Tagged With: Beer and Cheese Bisque, Cooking with Beer, Snacks & Lunches, Soup

Six Sensational Seasonal Soup Recipes

October 21, 2018 by Christian Gott 5 Comments

Autumn has arrived here in Jersey and we have had some wonderful crisp, bright sunny days and cooler evenings. These are perfect for walking along the coastal paths and beautiful country lanes and building up an appetite. I love Autumn because there are some wonderful fruit and vegetables in season such as cooking apples for…

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Filed Under: American Cusine, Christmas Cooking, Classic Dishes, Cooking Techniques, Fish & Shellfsh, French Cusine, Lunchtime Dishes, Slow-cooker Cooking, Soup, Spanish Cooking, Starters and Snacks, Vegetables Tagged With: Seasonal Eating, Soup

How to make Great Fishcakes

September 13, 2018 by Christian Gott Leave a Comment

Smoked Haddock, Prawn and Herb Fishcakes

Fishcakes are incredibly versatile, they can be a great starter cake, or as a main course. Fishcakes are really simple to make, and you can choose from any number of combinations. Today’s recipe punches plenty of flavour, smoked haddock, prawn and herb.

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Filed Under: Allergens, Bread, Classic Dishes, Eggs, Fish & Shellfsh, Food and Drink Pairing, Lunchtime Dishes, Potatoes, Starters and Snacks Tagged With: Fish, Fishcakes, Prawns, Smoked Haddock, Smoked Haddock Prawn & Herb Fishcakes

Daddy’s Not-so-Secret Crispy Chicken Recipe

July 3, 2018 by Christian Gott 4 Comments

Now if I have a weakness for ‘junk food’ it is Southern Fried Chicken, I don’t have a pressure fryer like a certain well know high street chain, which is one of the secrets to producing a piece of crisp coated moist chicken but after a fair few attempts I do have an excellent recipe for well-seasoned coating and tender chicken. While Daddy’s Not-so-Secret Crispy Chicken Wings recipe doesn’t have anywhere near the 10 -12 herbs and spices in the famous secret Kentucky recipe**

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Filed Under: Allergens, American Cusine, Chicken Recipes, Food and Drink Pairing, Meat, Spices, Starters and Snacks Tagged With: Buffalo Wings, Chicken, Chicken Recipes, Crispy Chicken Wings, Indepence Day Food, KFC Secret Recipe

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