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Srivalli at Cooking 4 All Seasons is hosting a fabulous event: Roti Mela! Apparently it’s on the back of the huge success of dosa mela - which I missed, but love the round ups!

As you may have guessed by the name, the event is to round up everyone’s roti recipes - definitely a roundup to be bookmarked I reckon! Rotis are something which I had never really tried until recently - I think they fell into my fear of yeast/baking category…. yes yes, I know they are generally neither yeasted or baked… I was living in roti-free ignorance!

Then I fell out of my comfort zone when I made Coconut Rotis for my <a h…

Just thought I write up a quick post to show you what I served with the bean salad I put together for No Croutons Required!

I was down at my fishmongers* and they had the most gorgeous sole - I picked up this beaut for £2!!! Bargaineous!

What with all the flavours going on in the salad I figured the best treatment of this delicate fish was to keep it simple. A quick dredging of the skinned fish with flour, salt and pepper, then frying it in a medium heat pan with a good glug of olive oil for 4/5 minutes each side. Just before the first side was finished I melted in a knob of butter… Easy, tasty, perfect!

I tried something a bit different when preparing the fish this time - dover sole is notorious for getting rid of all the wee bones along the fins… so this time I left the fins on whilst cooking, then when it was cooked, used the side of the…

This month Think Spice is hosted by Krishna of Cooking from A to Z and features wasabi. It’s a great choice - I can’t wait to see the different dishes that come out of the round up! Since the first time I ate sushi I’ve loved wasabi - but I’ve never really used it in cooking. Krishna gave us a couple of vital wasabi hometruths:

Wasabi isn’t horseradish!
I did know that one! Although… it is from the same family (the Brassicaceae if you’re interested) and is often called Japanese horseradish!

And not only isn’t wasabi horseradish - often it isn’t even wasabi!! The worst of the pretenders (supermarket tubes!) is no more than a mix of horseradish+mustard+food colouring - and even the restaurants generally cheat away from the real thing.
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Well, this is a first for me - sat in on a Friday night writing my blog! I never thought I’d see the day… But I’ve made it to the end of my first week at new work - and it’s been a good one. Going to catch up on some of my reading tomorrow - I’ve been missing my daily blog-fix!

Anyway, I’m going to keep this entry short and sweet - it’s 9pm and I’m far from ready to go out.

This is my month’s entry to No Croutons Required. It was perfect timing for tonight really - healthy, tangy salad, with a hint of heat… ideal to prepare the body and soul for a good night out!

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Well, it’s Day Four of Kittie’s new job - and it’s going well so far! I’m missing not being too busy to check out as many blogs as I would like - not to mention posting here. But hopefully it will settle down over the next few days and I’ll work out a new routine!

Update! Since my last edit (it was originally Day Three!), I have been told I am going to be moved onto another new project - to make better use of my talents… I didn’t realise you got IT Project Cooks!!

In the little time I have today, I thought I would pass on this great pasta dish. As you may have guessed, I’ve had a bit of a thing about caramelized onions recently - I keep making up big lots of them then chucking them into various dishes! Nom nom nom… my favourite so far was the chicken and caramelized onion risotto… nom nom nom!

This started out as a what-can-…