Sticky honey glazed mango sauce for gammon

I took some fresh mangos, sliced them up, let the cook with the gammon and honey in the oven and at the end i caramelized them in a pan with some sugar and water, perfect with gammon!

Lasagne!!! Garfields favourite food

I managed to make my first lasagne dish a couple of weeks ago, with of course store bought pasta but everything else like the feeling was made with my own hands which gave me a great sense of accomplishment when it was done, I have to be honest in saying that you should be discouraged if you cant get everything to stack up perfectly cause mine didnt, but it tasted damn good. For my filling i used fresh minced beef, 2 cans of chopped tomatoes, fresh chillies , some cinnamon, a lot of basil and dried mint and finished it off with some olive oil and lemon juice.  You then just boil the lasagne slices in some water and then stack everything up while adding the filling as well till you make a little tower and the cover with a lot of shredded cheddar!

Delicious Home Made BBQ Ribs and Sweet Potato Mash

Okay fellow foodies, this is definitely one of my all time favourites which i only came up with last week. Basically its a delicious and affordable way to make BBQ ribs at home and with only the use of your oven. Basically any store bought ribs will do(they cost anywhere between 2-4 pounds), and they are one of the cheapest cuts of meat due to the big amount of bones that comes with it but if done right its one of the most succulent parts of the animal you can get your hands on. Basically you take your ribs and place the in a tray with a drizzle of olive oil and any mixture of your favourite spices (i used just plain old salt and black pepper for mine) and you let the ribs cook on their own on really high heat (gas mark 7) over a time period of 35 minutes making sure you flip the ribs over half way through.  Ribs are known to create quite a lot of fat so at some point you are going to want to drain them of their juices , but keep that goodness in a cup so that you can use it later for the bbq sauce. Once the ribs are almost cooked its time to get that BBQ sauce on 'em. For my BBQ sauce i took some leftover reggae reggae sauce and mixed it with some store bought bbq sauce which i m pretty sure it was meant to be used as a nacho dip and mixed those with some finely cut red chillies and some of that rib meat juice i saved from earlier. Cover your ribs with that special sauce and let them cook for approximately another 10-15 minutes , so that they can absorb all of that goodness. Those ribs go great with the sweet potato mash which is really simple to make. Just peel your sweet potatoes , boil them till they re so soft that they only need a gentle squeeze to turn into mash, and then just mash em up using some cream and butter. Dont forget to add some salt and plenty of black pepper  top it all off . Please comment, subscribe and rate my dish from 1-5 starts *****.Happy cooking! 

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New Segment for the Blog

Ok so i am creating a new separate page for this segment of my blog. Basically this part of the blog will contain cooking that me and my very good Slovakian friend,  Jana Lacova, come up with or even recipes solely made by her that i ll be trying out. She is an excellent baker and so far her lemon and poppy seed muffins are some of the best i have ever tried. We only just started cooking today for the very first even though we ve known each other for quite some time, and we made Eggs Benedict for brunch and as posh as this may sound it literally just comes down to some toasted bread, a poached egg topped of with a creamy  Hollandaise sauce which is literally just egg yolks and butter whisked together Bain-marie style and i ll be posting pictures and further instructions soon fellow foodies :) You can find the link to this special segment on the top bar of the website.Check back regularly for new posts but i ll let you guys know whenever something new is posted on there. Enjoy!
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Pan fried Salmon with Sun dried tomatoes and Meat balls alongside a Jacket Potato

So for today's lunch , i had pan-fried salmon and meatballs alongside a cheesy jacket potato. For the jacket potato its as simple as just washing your everyday potato, giving it a few good jabs (pierce it) , and sticking it in the microwave for 5-6 minutes at full blast but it really depends on your microwave and size of your potato and when its done just load it up with cheese and stick it in the microwave for a couple more seconds to really get it to melt. For the salmon i just seasoned it with salt,mixed herbs,pepper, some lemon juice and then tossed it on to a sizzling pan with some olive oil in it. I pan fried it for 2-3 minutes on each side till it was nice and crispy and finished it off with a drizzle of white wine and there you have it. Salmon can be quite expensive in Glasgow , especially for a city right next to the ocean , but there are cheap alternatives in frozen form in shops like lidl and tescos which is way more ideal for students. I got my salmon stakes for about 2-3 pounds at lidl.

Black Pudding With Ellie Goulding

Okay, black pudding is my ultimate Irish delicassy . To give you a better more informative description of what it really is i ll quote wikipedia for you : is a type of sausage made by cooking blood or dried blood with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled . I love mine just simply fried till its crispy.

So for last nights supper i  had some sliced black pudding along with a slice of toast while enjoying Ellie Goulding live from the itunes festival. Black pudding and its quite rare in Scotland  sibling the white pudding are really inexpensive types of meat and should be in the fridge of any student meat lover

photo by my brother Ioannis Cleary

photo by my brother Ioannis Cleary

Gordon Ramsay's tips for making love to emm...food

Love the man, but thought this was worth sharing even though it doesn't entirely have to to with food. 

cheap and yummy macaroni chicken soup

Boiled some water, added the pasta along with some salt, butter and dried herbs and once the pasta was ready i just added a couple of powdered chicken soup sachets topped off with some shredded halloumi cheese .yum!

Pan fried and the roasted cod in a sauce of fresh vegetables and herbs

Delicious fresh affordable corn

Great for grilling with some nice home made garlic butter with a hint of grounded cinnamon

Day at one of Glasgow's farmer markets

the farmers market

fresh organic fruit

free range eggs, organic

fresh bread

homemade fruity wine

homemade soaps

sunflower seed and dried apricot loaf of bread. Really fresh and delicious

Today's Sunday's lunch

All of today's food was provided by lidl at some really competitive prices. A packet of chicken drum legs,some onion rings, fresh sweet beans and carrots and ready to mix stuffing. All of it came to less than 10 pounds and this was a lunch for two including many left overs for even more cooking. chicken drums were doused in bbq sauce and left to cook for over an hour in the oven covered in silver foil, the veggies were slightly cooked in butter in a heated pan and voila , there you have it, a delicious sunday lunch.

Man in the kitchen

Sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, rocca and balsamic vinegar Salad topped with parmesan cheese

Souvla- The essence of Cypriot Food

This is by far the most popular meat dish in the cypriot cuisine. Various parts of the lamb are passed through massive skewers and are left to grill over a barbecue grill which is affectionately called the foukou on the island of cyprus(cypriot word is derived from the greek word of fire which is fotia). This is the most commonly eaten food on the island of Cyprus and it plays a huge role in the Greek-Cypriots’s lives as it is eaten at times of celebration whether that is on someone’s birthday, on christmas and most importantly on Easter Sunday after the end of the Greek Orthodox’s fast.

Tahini or tashi (the perfect cypriot dip for chips )

This is a dish made by blending together some garlic, tahini,lots of lemon and salt , and a few squirts of water. Probably my favourite dipping sauce in the world for chips

Palm fruit just looks plain weird up close..have yet to buy or try one

Nothing more refreshing in the summer than fresh grapes

Yummy Figs