Sommethingdelicious recipe for king prawn curry

1 medium onion chopped
1 shallot chopped
2 cloves pressed garlic
small tin of chopped mushrooms or 300grams fresh chopped mushrooms
1/2 tin of chopped tomatoes
2 small chopped potatoes
1/4 teaspoon Garam Marsala
  "      "              dried coriander or fresh if possible
  "      "              tumeric powder
  "      "              fennel     "
  "      "              Cumin  powder
1/2    "              Madras paste mix 
1 chicken stock cube in 500ml of water.
 1  250 grams packet of king prawns defrosted or fresh

fry in a casserole dish or large saucepan  chopped onions, shallots & garlic until lightly softened, then add the chopped potatoes and all the seasoning and stir well.  Then add the tin of mushrooms & tomatoes and mix well, you can now add the stock , add salt & pepper, then  leave to cook for about 30 mins on a low heat.  Turn off and leave to cool down for about 30 - 45 mins or longer if you wish. This seems to give the sauce a lot more flavour by leaving it to cool down for a while.

Reheat the sauce , add the prawns stir well and taste for seasoning, if the curry needs some more spice, you can add some more madras paste or 2 small dried chillies.  Then add 2 soup spoons of crème fraiche, serve with boiled rice.  enjoy

Sommethingdelicious recipe for Steak and mushroom pie

steak and mushroom pie

1 medium onion
1 clove of garlic crushed
1 small tin of tinned mushroom or 200grms of fresh chopped mushrooms

500 grms chuck steak or paleron steak  cut into small pieces
1 medium glass of red wine                         
l  Knorr beef stock cube in  200ml of water
1 teaspoon redcurrant jelly
1 teaspoon tomato puree
1 teaspoon of viadox beef stock or oxo in a small cup of water

Heat oven to 160c or gas mark 4

in a frying pan sear steak for a couple of minutes and then add onions and fry for about 5 mins and then add mushrooms, and add the wine & stock , redcurrant jelly and tomato paste, add viadox beef stock, and  mix well  and season well,  then transfer to a casserole dish and cook for about  2  hrs . Leave to cool down for about 30 mins.

Transfer  the meat to a pie dish and put on a pastry top either puff pastry  or shorcrust pastry press down well around the rim,  and  then brush with beaten egg, cook for 30 mins at 200c  or gas mark 6. or until  the pastry is golden brown remove from the oven and serve, bon appetit.