Whenever you are ill, do you have your go-to ill food? For many people, it’s probably going to be chicken soup or something along those lines. But I wonder if you have heard of the ill food for many Chinese people; it’s congee, which is a type of rice porridge. This is my recipe for…
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Bacon and Scrambled Egg Breakfast Burritos
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so they say. Usually breakfast is never on my radar, I wake up a bit too late so skip that first meal so I can make it to my lectures. Getting up those 20 minutes earlier should probably be a priority however a bowl of cereal…
Chicken and Chorizo Pot Pie for 1
I remember watching Nigella Lawson making a Chicken Pot Pie in one of her shows and she used chicken stock concentrate and it’s an ingredient that I’ve never tried before. But thanks to the lovely team over at Essential Cuisine, I am finally able to use chicken stock concentrate, 10 years after watching Nigella make…
Homemade Chicken Enchiladas with a Homemade Spicy Tomato Sauce
Enchiladas are a favourite of many people with a tasty meat filling in a tortilla wrap covered with a flavoursome tomato sauce and topped with melted cheese. My version is filled with sliced chicken breast mixed with spicy pickled jalapenos. The chicken breast is panfried in cumin oil. I simply place cold oil into…
12 Days Bonus: Roast Chicken Dinner for 5 for £5
When you think of student food, you might think beans on toast, instant noodles and cold sausage rolls out of the fridge. In my first semester of university, 2 of those were meals that I ate when I became really desperate and was just way too tired after a long day of lectures to cook…
Andrew in the Kitchen 