The Recipes - How to make a quick and easy Mushroom Pilau

This mushroom pilau is like a mini biryani style dish. It is made with basmati rice, mushrooms etc, curry paste and all topped off with a chopped up omelette. This dish is so simple to make and quick too. It is a really good tasting Indian style dish, and you could even add a curry sauce to it if you wanted. Vegans can leave out the omelette and it still tastes good!! 

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The Recipes - Quick Jacket Potato

Jacket potatoes although very tasty usually take an hour in the oven to bake.
Then, one day, after scouring various bargain stores, I came across a tool that said you could make a great jacket potato in the microwave in 7 or 8 minutes.
So i tried it.
This tool turned out to be fantastic, and the quality of the potato wasn't very far removed from an oven baked one, so we started using it quite frequently. Try it yourself from Amazon here
In this recipe we added mature cheese and beans, although you can fill them with cauliflower cheese or chili from this channel too, or anything you like!
My personal favourite is cheese, beans, and coleslaw on top when it is cooked!
If you have a favourite combination do let me know...

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The Recipes - The Dab Barm cake

This a traditional Lancashire thing. A Dab in Lancashire is a thinly sliced, about 4-5mm wide, piece of a large potato. This is then dried on a tea towel or kitchen roll, and then dipped in batter mix and deep fried until golden. It's a chip shop thing!
We like this one served on a buttered Barm cake, with a piece of iceberg lettuce, a slice of onion and a dollop of mayonnaise. Be sure to splash on a little more vinegar and salt when you put it on the bread. Currently we are working on a tasty chip shop style batter mix to fry them in at home. We will be sure to keep you updated on how this works out.

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The Recipes - Garlic Dip

This recipe came from a friend of mine who's parents used to run a restaurant. He gave me the basics  which is mayonnaise, black pepper and crushed garlic. Try it first with two dessert spoons of mayonnaise, one small crushed garlic clove and some ground black pepper. For a hint of garlic use more mayonnaise then adjust to taste. I like it best served with carrot and celery batons.

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