Taste of Glasgow

Fancy doing something a little different with chicken, why not add some spicy Moroccan flava! I found a couple of recipes online and kinda fused them together to create this easy flavoursome teatime delight! Ingredients olive oil for cooking 8 chicken thighs/4 chicken breasts (whichever you prefer) 3 garlic cloves (chopped) 1 tbsp ground cumin [...]

A soupy favourite of mine and one I often make with left over chicken from the Sunday roast.  It’s surprisingly easy and is far tastier than any of the shop bought varieties – honest! Ingredients: 2 chicken breasts (or left over roast chicken) 2 celery sticks chopped 2 carrots chopped 2 garlic gloves (either bash [...]

This sauce can be used for a variety of fish but I find that it works really well with salmon. The sauce uses some classic Thai ingredients, including coconut milk and red curry paste to give it a bit of a kick. The fish sauce is what makes it compliment the salmon so well. This [...]

Rice is the staple food for half the people in the world. Umami as a separate taste was first identified in 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University while researching the strong flavor in seaweed broth. Ikeda isolated mono sodium glutamate (MSG) as the chemical responsible and, with the help of the Ajinomoto company, began commercial [...]

Wudon is the latest noodle bar to open in Glasgow, located just up from Kelvinbridge in the West End. Founded by the Wu sisters, Jennie, Anna & Winnie the restaurant is a fusion of eastern cooking serving sushi, broth & fried noodles, rice dishes and what they call ‘wee plates’ which is a tapas style [...]

This recipe has made it on to my list of regular meals as it is so tasty and easy to make plus there is usually some rice left over which makes a great snack later on in the evening or for lunch the next day. This will serve 2 people and will take you about [...]