Posts tagged 'Indian cooking'
01 November 2022
Sharmini's Cookery School win awards
One of the ways in which we bring our spices to life here at Steenbergs is to collaborate with chefs and cooks from a wide variety of cuisines and cultures. They kindly agree to share their knowledge and recipes with us so that our customers have mor...
Read more05 August 2021
Sharmini’s Inspirational Steenbergs Spice Kit
We are delighted to have been working with Sharmini Thomas of Sharmini’s Inspirational Indian Cuisine for the past 6 years, collaborating on recipes, videos and demonstrations at York Food festival and generally sharing a passion for fabulo...
Read more26 September 2017
Rice and Spice by Anna Kochan
Every now and again you meet someone who inspires you. Anna Kochan is one of those people. I met her at Food Festival in Leeds and was asking about her story and why she had written and published - Rice and Spice by Anna Kochan, a Bengali Food Advent...
Read more26 September 2016
Spicy cookery with Sharmini at York Food & Drink Festival
On Saturday 24th September, we savoured our first experience of York's excellent Food & Drink Festival. Now in its 20th year, it hosts numerous tastings, workshops & events alongside a market full of delicious street food stalls and artisan p...
Read more25 April 2012
Dosas – Southern Indian Pancakes
My parents have recently come back from a wedding in Southern India and they have been to one of my favourite regions, Kerala. They were blown away by the delicious food and already miss the flavours of their staple, the dosa. At about the same tim...
Read more20 December 2011
Recipe For A Thoroughly Modern Vegetarian Balti
Once in a while, I really need to go without meat of any form and I am going through one of those patches at the moment. So I have tweaked my Chicken Balti Recipe from earlier this year to be more tofu friendly and so usable as a vegetarian dish. At...
Read more04 June 2011
Recipe For Vegan Tofu And Coconut Curry
Continuing with our vegetarian fest after a successful week during National Vegetarian Week, I was craving a spicy curry that the kids would enjoy but would also be vegetarian - they are beginning to want some meat, but are just about hanging in ther...
Read more25 May 2011
Recipe For Traditional Style Rogan Josh
As part of my ongoing attempts to create Indian recipes that have some bearing on genuineness, I have been fiddling around with rogan josh ideas. Rogan josh is a signature dish for British curry houses, but was originally a North Indian meat dish th...
Read more08 December 2010
Elsewhere In Food Blogs (Part 1)
At A Slice Of Cherry Pie, Julia Parsons has been enjoying creating with candelight with a warming goulash for a warming early November night, spiced with the gentle heat of smoked paprika, plus some meringues for pudding. Then for a warm late Novemb...
Read more29 November 2010
Recipe For Lamb Biryani (Based On Madhur Jaffrey Recipe)
It has been snowing since last Thursday and the long range forecast indicates that the weather will not get any better for the rest of the week; a gritter has just gone past our house in the snow. Everywhere looks pretty and white, with that eery mu...
Read more05 November 2010
A Journey Back To True Korma Recipes (Part 2) - Banquet Style Korma
Since my blog the other week, I have looked further into the concept and style of traditional korma recipes and have found them a fascinating social history and felt that a korma would be ideal for Diwali. They seem to be a fusion recipe in the firs...
Read more25 October 2010
A Journey Through Back To True Korma Recipes (Part 1)
When I made the Chicken Tikka the other day, I also made a Lamb Korma. The end result was nothing like the British Kormas that I had been used to, so I decided to investigate the concept of the korma further. The first thing to say is that I liked...
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