Cardamom Rice Pudding
Gabby has just come back from India and is making me jealous with her talk of all the wonderful food she ate there. Jealous, but also inspired - particularly by the sound of a cardamom laced rice pudding with candied cashews and banana chips. Cardamom is one of the spices that I’m always drawn to. […]
Walnut Sourdough
Fresh from the Milgi oven. We’ve been supplied with wonderful bread from Riverside Sourdough (formerly Hungry Planet) for a few years now, and we’ll still keep on using them for our main supplies of breakfast loaves and bruschetta. All organic, all sourdough, and now being baked in the Embassy Cafe at Cathays Community Centre - […]
Purple Treasure
It’s like a bleedin’ harvest festival round here. We’ve got mountains of colourful squash from Riverside Market garden (currently featuring in our curry special), a crate of field mushrooms picked in West Wales by Mick, pears from my Pontypridd allotment, Bramley Apples from Allensbank Road, and blackberries picked by one of our kitchen staff. This […]
Fairtrade Banana Curry Recipe
Homemade Samosas served with the banana curry. Fruit in a curry might conjur up memories of a “Dad” curry from the 1980′s, but maybe that’s just me. In this recipe ,which we’re serving up as our weekly special to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight, the sweet softness of the bananas is offset with the tang of tamarind […]
Into the comfort zone for this week’s supper club
For this week’s Supper Club it’s time to hunker down with some hearty and wholesome comfort food to get us through the dark days of winter. The honey infused custard has just had crystalised ginger, ginger juice and a healthy shot of rum added to it and is churning into ice cream as i type. […]
