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Here’s how to cook a guaranteed tender Roast that doesn’t shrink. Many home cooked roasts shrink by up to half size by the time they’re cooked. When I see someone cooking a roast at 150C/300F I cringe, the roast nearly always shrinks, the meat is tough. The cook complains that they don’t know why it […]

My recent experience using a curry kit where I mentioned that I’m always searching for that ‘secret ingredient’, brought unexpected results.  Zana from SpiceZ commented on my review and offered me a sample of her SpiceZ Sri Lankan Curry Kit, promising “You will discover the secret ingredient in our product.” Result -This is the best Lamb Curry I […]

My search for Curry Nirvana (http://shed.robhealey.com.au/cooking/curry-nirvana) continues. Yesterday I tried using the ingredients from a Curry Z  kit. Result- disappointing. The kit was at it’s use-by date and not fresh.   After this kit I tried a SpiceZ kit which I now rate as the best I’ve ever tasted – I wrote about that kit at […]

Don’t bother with this recipe- it’s rubbish compared to how I cook now. I’ve left it here as an example of what I used to do and to show me how far my Curries have come since this recipe. Here’s a link explaining more, current November 2010 Towards Curry Nirvana Part 2 This is an […]

Ingredients: For 4-6 people   2 small, or 1-2 large lamb shanks per person.   Shallots 5-6 per person, or very small brown onions (not salad onions or Cairns “shallots”) Peeled and slit about one third through with sharp knife (don’t let Mo do this bit) keeping shallots whole   3 large bulbs of garlic, […]