Saturday 6th April 2024 – Indian Streetfood

We’ll cook up these three crackers:

• Spicy Mint Parathas
• Sweet Potato with Parathas and Chutney
• Paneer 65

Saturday 30th March 2024 – Streetfood Ideas

We’ll cook up these three crackers:

• French Trimmed Rack of Lamb with Mint, Parsley & Pistachio Dip – one of our classic dishes with a new dip.
• Roasted Vegetable Couscous – we’ve been making this for years, it’s an absolute winner.
• Easter Currant Biscuits – simple but so tasty.

Saturday 2nd March 2024 – Streetfood Ideas

We’ll cook up these three crackers:

• A Crispy Japanese Chicken Burger – with pickles and a zingy mayo sauce.
• Dynamite cauliflower – spicy, sweet, crunchy cauliflower, you have to try it.
• Lebanese potatoes – crispy potatoes served with a beautiful dip.

Saturday 17th February 2024 – Chinese Fakeaway

Back to our roots with a fakeaway.

We’ll cook up three different Chinese dishes:

• Sweet and sour chicken – who needs to go to the Chinese takeaway now?
• Egg and vegetable fried rice – really delicious and perfect with a Chinese meal.
• Firecracker parcels – crispy, spicy and stuffed with goodness.

Saturday 3rd February 2024 – Getting ready for Pancake Day

Pancakes on the Egg, why not. Savour pancakes, absolutely.

We’ll cook up three different pancakes with fabulous fillings. They are:

• Chickpea pancakes with a curried potato and green lentil filling, topped with a simple curry sauce.
• Savoury mushroom, pepper and onion pancakes – the very first dish I cooked for Mrs Meat Smoke Fire in 1995.
• Jian Bing, Chinese pancakes – we’re revisiting a dish we’ve done before as it’s that good.

We have also published a recipe for American-style pancakes we cooked during the week with candied bacon and maple syrup.

Saturday 13th January 2024 – Three Mexican(ish) crackers

I’ve never cooked an OTT (Over The Top) chilli, as I thought it was a gimmick. We decided we’d test this by cooking and comparing my chilli, next to an OTT chilli and then using the chilli in all the recipes. The recipes we decided to cook were:

• Enchiladas stuffed with chilli and topped with our new enchilada sauce. Helena describes it as Mexican lasagne.
• Beef chilli burritos – tortillas stuffed with chilli, Mexican rice, black beans and soured cream, served with guacamole and salsa.
• Pasta fries with chilli – a TikTok sensation I’m told. Well, we cooked it during the week with a veggie chilli, and it was lovely.

Saturday 6th January 2024 – Christmas nibbles and cocktails

To start 2024 we thought we’d go a little bit healthy, but keep the punch flavours. For this week’s live Big Green Egg cook, we cooked:

• Paneer tikka masala – Indian paneer cheese, with a stunning sauce.
• Mushroom fried rice – Mushroom, onion and pepper with basmati rice.
• Chapatis – Indian wholemeal flour flatbreads, So tasty but so simple.

Saturday 23rd December 2023 – Christmas nibbles and cocktails

We were blown away by where people joined from this week. They included Australia, India, The Maldives, Grand Canaria, Switzerland, Canada, North and South Wales, North Norfolk, Devon, Essex… and many of our usual locations.

Our cooks were:

• Chorizo and parmesan bites – simple, yet so tasty.
• Mexican Tostadas – Mexican chicken nibbles.
• Spicy pork gem lettuce bites – Asia in a single bite

Our cocktails were:

• Limoncello margarita with burnt lemon
• Mulled Aperol
• Christmas Clementine Cocktail
• Burnt pineapple mocktail

Saturday 9th December 2023 – Snack ideas

We all love snacks, here are a couple from our trip to Vietnam, and one from Tic Tok!

Our cooks are:

• Vietnamese Pizza – we had these in Hoi An and they were fabulous.
• Bánh Mì – A pork sandwich from Vietnam stemming from the Frech influence on the country.
• Crispy loaded potatoes – who doesn’t love a potato with cheese?

Saturday 11th November 2023 – Christmas ideas

Every year you want new ideas for Christmas. So here are this years!

Our cooks are:

• Rotisserie Stuffed Turkey Crown – a boned and rolled turkey crown stuffed with chorizo, apple, and shallots, cooked on the rotisserie. It’s an absolute winner.
• Root vegetable gratin – who doesn’t like a gratin? This one combines beetroot, parsnip, sweet potato and celeriac.
• Lemon tartlets – rich lemon tartlets. They’re so simple and very quick to bake.

Saturday 28th October 2023 – Halloween and Bonfire Night

With Halloween and Bonfire Night upon us, we wanted to cook some easy, hearty, and warming dishes that can be enjoyed inside or out.

Our cooks are:

• Criss-Cross Dogs – taking the humble Frankfurter and injecting flavour and texture. They’re a winner, even Mrs Meat Smoke Fire likes them!
• Chilli-loaded baked potatoes – the Egg makes the best baked potatoes and smoked chilli, why not combine the two?
• Squash fondue – who doesn’t like oozy cheese with crusty bread? Now add all of that and bake it inside a squash.

Saturday 14th October 2023 – Korean Pizza, Chickpea salad, and Mincemeat Pinwheels

This week we cooked:

• Korean Pizza – this has to be one of my favourite pizzas to date and there is no cheese. There’s spice though.
• Crispy chickpea salad – an idea we came up with when trawling some of our cookbooks. It’s a real winner.
• Apple and mincemeat pinwheels – super easy and so tasty, these tasted of Christmas pudding.

Saturday 30th September 2023 – Brunch on the Egg

This week we cooked:

• Spicy Egg Tortilla Wraps – inspired by Nadia Husain’s dish from Saturday Kitchen.
• Potato rostis with mushroom and onion – a firm family favourite for breakfasts.
• Korean roast pork ramen bowl – a spicy broth with roast pork and plenty of vegetables.

Saturday 9th September 2023 – Japanese

This week we cooked:

• Crispy rice cakes with a dipping sauce – we served these with the flat iron beef.
• Japanese marinated flat iron steak.
• Toasted sesame green beans.
• Chicken wings with wasabi mayo and sriracha.

Saturday 2nd September 2023 – A special one with Rob from @robs_bbq

This week we cooked:

• Pane Con Tomate – a Spanish tapas of toast topped with bread and garlic.
• Spicy prawn and chorizo skewers.
• Hot dry noodles – a dish that sounds boring but is anything but.

Saturday 19th August 2023 – A Lionesse Brunch

This week we cooked:

• Spicy chicken empanadas – simple Spanish empanadas, quick and easy but great during the match.
• Grilled halloumi flatbreads – so quick you could make these during half time.
• Apple and Rumpopf Filo Pies – great with a glass of bubbly.

Saturday 13th August 2023 – A few chicken dishes

This week we cooked:

• Jerk Chicken with a mango salsa
• Sweet and sticky chicken thighs
• Thai sesame skewers – use your Tandoor Ring for some lovely skewers
• Chipotle sweet potatoes