November 24th, 2009
Lamb Rogan Josh
Today is Day 2 of our curry week special!
After our yummy Chicken Tikka Marsala yesterday we are spicing things up a bit today with a lovely rich and spicy Rogan Josh.
Rogan Josh is a curry dish hailing from Kashmir and is quite popular in India, Pakistan, Singapore as well as here in the UK.
Rogan translates to oil in Persian, while Josh means heat, hot, boiling, or passionate. Put simply Rogan Josh means cooked in oil at intense heat.
This authentic, medium spiced dish would be perfect to heat things up on a drery autumn night! Read the rest of this entry »
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November 23rd, 2009
Indian Curry Chicken Tikka Masala
As its Curry Week this week we have decided to post a new curry recipe here for you everyday.
Give them a try, you can get everything spicy that you need right here and everything else is readily available at your local supermarket.
We challenge you not to love it just as much as your local take away! ( a lot healthier and cheaper too! )
This first one is very simple and fairly mild. An absolute currytastic classic!
You do ideally need to marinate the chicken overnight so it takes a bit of pre-planning, but really that’s most complicated thing about it! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Chicken tikka masala, curry recipe, Curry Week
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November 20th, 2009
Curry Week
Here at the spice market we are all getting excited because its National Curry Week! For over 200 hundred years Britain’s love affair with curry in all its fantastic variations has been simmering and now it’s our nations (and the spice market’s) favourite dish.
Started in 1998 to promote the cuisine and to raise funds for charities concentrating on hunger, malnourishment and poverty - National Curry Week is a great way to cook and taste new curry dishes and help good causes at the same time! Read the rest of this entry »
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November 13th, 2009
Xmas Mulled Wine
With Christmas fast approaching thoughts turn (at least in my mind) to eating drinking and being merry!
I love all the food we have over the festive period, roast turkey, sage herb stuffing, pigs in blankets, gravy, mince pies, Christmas pud! …..sorry got a bit carried away!
But I also love the drinks! The most Christmassy of all I think is mulled wine. I know you can buy it ready-made in bottles but there is nothing more satisfying than making it yourself - especially when your drinking it!
I did a bit of research and came up with a Mrs Beeton Classic, apparently the idea of mulled wine originates in Germany but if there is such a thing as traditionally English mulled wine then this must be it. You can’t beat Mrs Beeton can you its a goody! ENJOY!
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Tags: Christmas, Christmas ingredients, cinnamon, cloves, grated nutmeg, mace, mulled wine, wine, xmas
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November 6th, 2009
Home baked goods, lovingly prepared and wrapped, make the perfect Christmas gift with the personal touch!
This season is the perfect time to get cooking; and with everybody feeling the pinch a bit more these days, home baked goods, lovingly prepared and wrapped, make the perfect Christmas gift with the personal touch.
Enlist your children or grandchildren’s help too and you have a recipe for the perfect cozy winters day at home. All the warm sweet spice smells of cinnamon, almonds and star anise as well as zesty oranges, dried fruits and buttery pastries always evoke lovely memories of Christmas that fill the house with a warm winters glow.
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Tags: almonds, anise star, Christmas baking, Christmas ingredients, cinnamon, cranberries, dried fruits, flour
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August 2nd, 2009
Talking to our customers at Grantham and Spalding we realised how many people like to cook a curry! So we have found these popadoms that come in lots of different flavours. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: curry, popadoms, urid flour, wheat free
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July 6th, 2009
Our macadamia nuts, which come all the way from Australia, have been popular. But what can you do with them besides eating them as a snack? Well I found this great receipe for white chocolate and macadamia nut brownies - yummy! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: australia, brownies, macadamia nuts
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July 5th, 2009
On the TV this morning Sumac was used in a dressing for a salad called Fattoush. At The Spice Market we like to stock some of the more unusual spices so why not buy it and try it! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: fattoush, sumac, sumaq
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June 10th, 2009
All nuts are a good source of protein, but the brazil nut is the best. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: amino acids, brazil nuts, protein, selenium
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May 7th, 2009
It has been reported that walnuts will help lower your cholestrol because they appear to have the highest amounts of unsaturated fats and lowest amounts of saturated fats of all the nuts. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: almonds, cholestrol, pistachios, walnuts
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