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April 26th, 2025

Beef Coconut Fry from Rice, Spice, and all Things Nice

Edible, but nothing special. - I suspect the 3 green chillies should be seeded before shredding. The sauce was super hot, and we're a family that likes things hot. - I think the "red pepper" that's asked... read more >


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200 Budget Meals (Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook)

By Sunil Vijayakar
Hamlyn - 2008

May 31st, 2018

This is not a cookbook anyone would choose based on the title alone. I found it when, after having a good time cooking from Vijayakar's 30 Minute Indian, I went looking for other books he had written and found this one very well reviewed at Amazon UK and at a budget price.

Not sure about the budget-ness of recipes using shrimp, calamari, pomegranate, and other vaguely exotic bits of food, but the dishes I've made have been uniformly tasty, easy, and fast to prepare.