Spice Road Spices

The Art of Flavour

 

French Canadian Tourtiere Meat Pie

Arthur Huxley - 08-03-2025

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

This is the famous French Canadian Tourtiere pie recipe with ground beef, allspice and maple syrup. A Canadian classic.

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Important information about our recipes

Arthur Huxley - 01-03-2025

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

About Our Recipes - Important Information

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Mid Week Dinner Stress and Louisiana Excitement

Arthur Huxley - 24-02-2025

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

It would seem to be a mid week thing. How do you add a little bit of excitement to dinner when time is short.

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Baked Pork Loin with Amazing Crackling

Arthur Huxley - 04-02-2025

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

A Memorable Pork Recipe from Irene T. Caves Beach NSW

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Duck Fat our Taste and Health

Arthur Huxley - 20-12-2024

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

The note from Reader Ken Bromley was fairly direct. It seems to me, he said, that you guys have covered olive oil and butter. You have discussed Lard in our cooking and you have recommended we do all our frying in Ghee.

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Fenugreek - a chefs view

Arthur Huxley - 12-11-2024

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

Reader (Chef) Rebecca Fiorelli has been following our Sunday chats on secret flavour weapons in the kitchen and suggested we might mention Fenugreek.

You might know Fenugreek as a herb usually found in dishes from the Indian sub continent. But as Rebecca points out, it is capable of transforming more traditional dishes. Think of Fenugreek with mashed potatoes. Awesome !

A Warning

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Anchovies and your fifth Umami taste

Arthur Huxley - 18-10-2024

Spice Road Spices - Easy mid week recipes

You can see why Anchovies appeal to the Italian Sicilians. Anchovies have been described as having a mysterious complexity. It rather fits these wonderful Island people, you would think.

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The importance of emulsifyers in our quest for flavour

Arthur Huxley - 14-10-2024

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

Our Reader Stephanie's.comment last week on the importance of when to add butter to a sauce has sparked further comment and in particular, the need for emulsification in some sauces and vinegraites.

To continue, and without being too Chefy or Sciency, we thought you might be interested in how this works for Home Chef Hero's.

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New Orleans Creole Gullah Geechee Flavours

Arthur Huxley - 21-09-2024

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

We have mentioned previously that many of the names of the best tasting aromatics or ingredients have names that, to be generous, are daunting. Think of Pomegranate Molasses - a wonderful thing for home chefs but the name leaves some room for improvement.

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Wonderful Mortar and Pestle

Arthur Huxley - 17-09-2024

Spice Road Spices - Easy Mid Week Natural Flavour Recipes

Somehow it would seem we have lost touch with the old fashioned Mortar and Pestle. We are forever looking for the perfect flavour, especially with our midweek cooking and given time is usually short, we turn to a blender or processor for a favourite marinade or blend.

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