About a year ago, I got the notion that I would learn how to make sauces. I’ve always liked a decent sauce with my food, so it was beginning to bug me that I couldn’t make my own. To fill this knowledge gap, I went and bought Sauces: Sweet and Savoury, Classic and New by [...]

This is the easiest brownie recipe ever, though maybe not the recipe with the least amount of washing up. The recipe originally started off as a Delia Smith recipe, but I added a few bits just to up the flavour. I’m good  like that.
This recipe is very straightforward as it doesn’t require any whisked egg [...]

Again with the inauthentic recipes. And again it tastes good, so we don’t care. This recipe came from a book given to me by my old boss at the Wild Onion Café in Limerick. The Book is called Gourmet Cooking for Two, by Beatrice Ojakangas, and was originally published in 1970.
Our favourite recipe from this [...]

OK, so now you’ve had a few weeks to read some of our recipes, so maybe it’s time to explain the ideas behind Cookzors cooking? Some of this is basic common sense, some of this is from reading around different places on the internet, newspapers and cookbooks.
- It’s cheaper to cook at home. This informs [...]

The perfect accompaniment to Indian food, such as Chicken Biryani, naan bread is dead easy to make. You don’t need an authentic Indian brick oven (although if you happen to have one lying around, go for it). Simply shallow fry the dough in a frying pan, and it turns out really well with nice golden [...]

I know it’s July, and we’re supposed to be eating lovely crunchy, crispy, healthy salads, but to be perfectly honest, it’s lashing rain, I’m freezing and all I’m in the form for is comfort food. Seasonal eating be damned (at the moment anyway). So, while Indian food has a reputation for being difficult, let me [...]

A couple of years ago, I was on a book buying binge and managed to acquire Good Tempered Food: Recipes to Love, Leave and Linger Over by Tamasin Day-Lewis. To be honest, I haven’t made a lot of the recipes out of it, but this one is definitely a winner. It can make an [...]

Most people will never attempt to make bread. Some would like to, but are afraid to try, because “breadmaking is hard”, or “it requires a special talent”, or “you can only make bread if your hands are cold/warm/wet/dry/thrice blessed by Tibetan monks under a full moon”, or [insert ridiculous but entertaining excuse here].
Bollocks.
You can make [...]

Ok, these are about as inauthentic as a recipe can get, but they taste good, so we don’t really care. I mean, who ever heard of a spud in a Thai Fish Cake, but there you go. It just works.
Ingredients:
1 red or green chili
1 clove garlic
about 1 inch of fresh ginger
1 small onion or 1 [...]

To quote John Lennon, “Give Peas a Chance”. Here’s my favourite recipe for our little green friend, the humble pea. Huh? Peas? Don’t you just boil em and throw em on the plate?
Well, yes. But here’s a really cool and tasty thing you can do with them.
Note: 1T = 1 Tablespoon, 1t = 1 teaspoon
What [...]