When you are choosing potatoes for a recipe, remember that waxy potatoes and baby new potatoes are excellent for salads; large Kerr's Pinks or Golden Wonders are good for baking and Maris Pipers are the potato of choice by chefs for the best mashed potatoes.
Rice with tuna, white wine and herbs There are days when you just have a tin of tuna in the house and some rice. Being able to turn this into a comforting, healthy meal is a great skill to own. Follow this recipe and add or subtract depending on what you have in the cupboard or fridge. You need to have the flavour base: carrots, onions, garlic, celery and some herbs – but having these in the fridge at the start of any week frees you up to cook many lovely meals.
Rice, Bean and Veggie Custard Bake For dinner, it's easy to make a nutritious casserole with a grain and assorted vegetables. It also tastes absolutely yummy!
Pork Strips Stir Fry with RiceA quick and easy recipe from www.ballybrado.com using the best organic ingredients. This recipe uses ready-prepared stir-fry vegetables so it is quick as well as nutritious.
Mutter pulav – Rice with peas Mutter pulav is a famous Indian recipe for rice and peas. Almost every cuisine and country has a version – this is one of the tastiest.
Rice, Spice and All Things Nice If one individual could reflect the personality of a continent, then Reza Mahammad definitely deserves to be from India. Full of colour, he's part tie dye, part rainbow, part garam masala. When he appears on the screen, he is like an energetic burst of Indian sunshine bringing modern Indian food to the world.
Teurgoule – Normandy rice pudding The word 'teurgoule' comes from Norman patois – 'tordre la bouche' – to contort or twist the mouth, and was served pipng hot on cold winter days. Traditionally baked in a bread oven (boulangerie) as it cooled down after a bread-making session, the story goes that people used to bring their teurgoule, ready for baking, to the local boulanger who'd carry out the long baking process.....
How to cook rice Learn to cook rice and you have a friendly food you can rely on for life! It's used in so many cuisines from Thai to Indian to Chinese that it's worth knowing how to cook it properly.
Irish rice pudding Many Irish children hated rice pudding, it was often served with a dot of jam in the middle and we did everything to avoid it. Now it is very fashionable and when you bake it in the oven with cream as we do in this recipe you realise it is a fabulously comforting dish.
Seiya Nakano: How to cook Japanese RiceOur Greatfood.ie Japanese Guest Chef Seiya Nakano is from Osaka and learnt to make sushi from a master Japanese chef. He has also trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris followed by an internship at the 3 Michelin star restaurant Ledoyen. Here he guides you through cooking Japanese rice the correct way for use in sushi or to eat with a meal.
A simple fried rice recipe using soy sauce - you can make it without for a more authentic Chinese dish.
