The Swindian

Recipes

Here’s an overview of all the delicious things I like to cook and eat!

For some tips on how to make the perfect brunch, read here.

East Asian recipes

• Baked salmon + vegetable stir fry – in home-made teriyaki sauce
• Beef Massaman curry (Gordon Ramsay)
• Beef teriyaki stir-fry with shiitake mushrooms
• Cabbage teriyaki fried rice
• Chicken (claypot) rice (Gordon Ramsay)
• Chicken egg drop soup
• Green thai fish curry (from scratch!)
• Juicy pork stir-fried with lime and ginger 
• Miso sea bass with sesame bok choy
• Oriental overnight chicken
• Quick and easy fried rice
• Rice wine pork mince with beans, mushrooms and egg fried rice
• Sesame oil chicken with sesame zucchini
• Sichuan aubergine
• Soy-sesame salmon with asparagus
• Spicy beef mince with aubergine
• Spicy chicken, asparagus and peanut stir-fry
• Spicy Kung Pao chicken
• Stir-fry chicken made interesting
• Stir-fried chicken with pak choi in oyster sauce
• Swindian orange beef with mixed mushrooms
• Tom Kha Gai (a Swindian version)

Indian recipes

• Aloo posto (potato in poppy seeds)
• Bhindi kadhi (Okra in yogurt)
• Hard-boiled eggs in a spicy cream sauce
• Poha (flattened rice with vegetables)
• Savoury French Toast
• Simple green beans with mustard seeds
• Sindhi biryani
• South Indian chicken curry with spicy peas
• Sweet, sour and spicy aubergine
• Thama’s simple and delicious chicken curry

Middle Eastern recipes

• Home-made hummus, smooth
• Home-made hummus, chunky
• Sweet and savoury lamb tagine
• Mezze, an assortment (as part of Weekend of Food)
• Mains, an assortment (soup, chicken, fish, rice, as part of Weekend of Food)
• Vegetable tagine with Ras El Hanout
• Warming, spicy, slow-cooked lamb stew (with Ras El Hanout)

Vegetarian recipes

• Aloo posto (potato in poppy seeds)
• Baked stuffed aubergine with olives, almonds and tortilla chips
• Bhindi kadhi (Okra in yogurt)
• Bread infused with roasted garlic
• Breakfast pancakes with a sweet apple side
• Blood orange risotto
• Colourful potato salad with home-made mayonnaise
• Destiny mashed potatoes
• Garlicky gnocchi in creamy spinach sauce
• Garlicky green beans in walnut oil
• Garlic and chili green beans
• Garlic soup (tourain blanchi à ail)
• Halloumi stir-fry
• Hard-boiled eggs in a spicy cream sauce
• Herby lentils, topped with burrata
• Home-made hummus, smooth
• Home-made hummus, chunky
• Home-made plain granola
• Mushroom risotto in rosé wine
• Nectarine, raspberry and grape smoothies
• Pastry-less vegetable quiche
• Pommes Anna (crispy potato stacks)
• Poha (flattened rice with vegetables)
• Quinoa salad with sweet potato and aubergine
• Rocket and walnut pesto
• Savoury French Toast
• Sichuan aubergine
• Simple green beans with mustard seeds
• Spicy sweet potato, coconut and ginger soup
• Spinach and chickpea salad
• Spinach-halloumi pasta with caramelised onions
• Strawberry smoothies
• Sweet, sour and spicy aubergine
• Vegetable tagine with Ras El Hanout
• Vegetarian ‘faux gras’ with truffle oil
• Walnut & avocado salad with mustard vinaigrette
• Warming pumpkin, ginger and coconut soup
• Zucchini-halloumi fritters

Western recipes

• Baked haddock with a dukkah crust, served with lemony spinach and roasted sweet potato mash
• Baked stuffed aubergine with olives, almonds and tortilla chips
• Bread infused with roasted garlic
• Breakfast pancakes with a sweet apple side
• Blood orange risotto
• Champagne saffron risotto with garlic prawns
• Chicken and mushrooms in a white wine and cream sauce with wild rice
• Colourful potato salad with home-made mayonnaise
• Creamy beef stroganoff
• Creamy pasta with vodka and salmon
• Crisp salad with mustardy-lemon vinaigrette, baked salmon and white wine sangria
• Crispy bacon risotto with baby spinach and shiitake mushrooms
• Crispy duck breast in prune sauce (Rick Stein recipe)
• Crispy tuna bake
• Cullen Skink (Scottish fish soup)
• Destiny mashed potatoes
• Easy and delicious garlic chicken
• Fajitas, Swindian style
• Fragrant beef stew with aubergine
• Garlicky gnocchi in creamy spinach sauce
• Garlicky green beans in walnut oil
• Garlic and chili green beans
• Garlic soup (tourain blanchi à ail)
• Halloumi stir-fry
• Haggis (as part of Burns Night)
• Herby lentils, topped with burrata
• Home-made plain granola
• Mushroom risotto in rosé wine
• Nectarine, raspberry and grape smoothies
• Nutella stuffed French toast
• Pasta salad
• Pastry-less vegetable quiche
• Poached chicken
• Pommes Anna (crispy potato stacks)
• Potato soup with bacon
• Prosecco-cream soup with smoked salmon
• Quick and dirty bacon pasta
• Quinoa salad with sweet potato and aubergine
• Quinoa salad with mackerel, halloumi, avocado and walnuts
• Real Southern Fried Chicken
• Red wine bacon risotto
• Red wine gravy (for duck)
• Roast duck and roast vegetables
• Roast lamb with couscous
• Rocket and walnut pesto
• Salmon and green bean risotto
• Seven easy steps to healthy and colourful salads
• Shrimp and grits
• Slow-cooked boeuf bourguignon
• Spicy chicken-halloumi tortilla wraps
• Spicy sweet potato, coconut and ginger soup
• Spinach and chickpea salad
• Spinach-halloumi pasta with caramelised onions
• Sriracha scrambled eggs with smoked salmon
• Strawberry smoothies
• Things to do with eggs
• Tortellini in light cream sauce with chanterelles
• Turkey sausages with roast potatoes and red-wine infused mushrooms with spinach (in goose fat) 
• Vermicelli rice (as part of Fondue Chinoise)
• Walnut & avocado salad with mustard vinaigrette
• Warming pumpkin, ginger and coconut soup
• Zucchini-halloumi fritters

Desserts

• Almond and oat cookies with cranberries and white chocolate
• Cranacake (as part of Burns Supper)
• Deconstructed Zwetschendatschi (plum and vanilla crumble)
• Destiny brownies
• Dulce de leche brownies
• Guinness cake
• Lemon meringue pie
• Mummy G’s Apple Cake
• Nutella and banana brownies
• Nutella stuffed French toast
• Orange-cream trifle with Wild Geese honey liqueur

Drinks

• Heartsease elderflower cocktail
• Nectarine, raspberry and grape smoothie
• Strawberry smoothie
• White wine sangria
• Wild Goose Chase – an Irish-Swindian cocktail

Baked haddock with a dukkah crust, served with lemony spinach and roasted sweet potato mash