Thai green chicken curry

Today I found out that green beans and potatoes are great in Thai green curries!

While I admit to using jar sauce (curry for the lazy, and coconut milk is expensive!) it is delicious and easy to whip up pretty much any curry if you know what to put in it. 

It's a great use for any leftover veggies you have, and it'll usually taste pretty good no matter what you throw in.

What is your favourite type of curry?

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Food bonanza with Greg!

My wonderful Greg came to visit me last week! 

As thanks for him traveling so far to see me, I made him lots of yummies. To start with, I made delicious meatball marinara and spaghetti for when he arrived!

I will probably add a recipe for this at some point - it was really good!

A satisfied (and slightly surprised) customer!

For our romantic anniversary meal, we had baked salmon risotto. This plain fillet of fish was transformed into...

A wonderful dish! Greg ended up eating my tomatoes though... yuck :(

For dessert, I made surprise Dota 2 cupcakes with white chocolate and raspberry icing.

I miss him very much already! Food is a wonderful way to show your love.

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One potato, two potato, three potato, four!

Pork chop... and potato wedges!

Steak... and chips!

Twice baked stuffed... potato!

and a Superman 'movie snack'...?

Raspberry and chocolate cake

A friend of mine, Billy, is moving away to Australia to live with his girlfriend for a bit. When his sister (also my friend) invited me to his leaving 'do, of course I said yes! I wanted to have a nice catchup and see people.

Any excuse for a cake, eh? ;) 

It was a good job I brought one, too - I didn't know all that many people at all, but cake is an instant friend-maker. It went down a treat!

My tools of the trade: raspberries, some chocolate fudge ganache and two 24cm chocolate cakes.

I slathered the bottom of the bottom half (say what) with my ganache...

then made a huge mess with a piping bag and the rest of the ganache and some swirls!

The piping bag kept getting all... air-y? And then instead of coming out in a nice pattern it came out like spaghetti! I tried to cover it up.

The ganache was a pain in the butt to make. I accidentally forgot to use my whipping cream, so it was all... lumpy...

I didn't take a picture of that for good reason. It was grim.

Sooo I used the rest of the whipping cream with nowhere near enough chocolate, and it wouldn't set! I ended up putting another whole bar of dark cooking chocolate in, and it set into a nice fudgey chocolatey cream. 

Pop em together, whack on some raspberries and a little dusted sugar and wham! Delicious fancy looking cake.

It was wonderful and moist and everybody loved it, especially Billy! Fancy looking cakes don't have to be difficult, especially if you put swirls on it (even if they're a bit wonky). 

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