The next in my Thai themed recipes for Farmison is a Thai red duck curry. Although it’s apparently one of the most popular Thai dishes outside of its native country, I had never tasted it until our Thai adventure. What I loved about the version I tried was that it had pineapple and lychees alongside aubergine and red peppers. A lovely fruity curry base to go with the rich duck. Continue reading
This month I’ve delved into dodgy recipes from the 70s – see the chicken supreme – and I’m going to go one deeper and dig up the gammon steak. Specifically, served with pineapple and a fried egg. It’s now a regular feature on the local pub grub menu, but I think this manifestation of gammon was once a staple of recipe books that every 1970s entertaining housewife had to own. It’s now seen as a little bit naff, like cocktail sausages on sticks. Still, there’s something to be said about sweet pineapple slices complementing what is a very salty cut, so when Roaming Roosters offered me a free home-cured gammon steak to try out I could hardly resist! Continue reading
