When you can’t dine out, because everyone’s shouting about corona virus from the rooftops, you gotta eat in. (And maybe wear ear plugs because you can still hear those mo fos shouting on the roof) I’d had it up to here with tinned soup, and baked beans and freezer foods so I decided to say…
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Eat Like You Give a Fuck: Coconut Pancakes with Mango Coulis
Life is too short to not fill with joy. Joy and pancakes. And delicious mango coulis. We can’t forget that shit, either! My kid had a friend over for a sleepover. They woke up at 5am the morning after (or still the same night depending on how you look at the situation) and were…
Slightly Schizophrenic Thug Kitchen Piña Colada Crumble
This time of year is known either for its peace, love and togetherness, or its stress, drama and aggressive clashes with relatives. If that’s not the most confusing schizophrenic holiday of the year then I don’t know what is. So I thought I’d make this schizophrenic-seeming dessert too. On one hand it’s a crumble, so…
Dine Like a Lazy Thug: Pasta Piselli
Sometimes dinner has got to be easy. Easy for those days where you haven’t stopped and your head feels like it’s going to explode. Or the days where you’ve barely got food in the house because you haven’t shopped. Or for those days where you’ve put your back out and you’re forced to walk around like…
Party Like a Pirate with this Thug Kitchen Rum Banana Bread
Ahoy there matey. Pirates are a not-so-distant cousin of the modern day Thug, so what better way to rock the rum banana bread than pirate style? .So my little landlubber, join me for some Thug Kitchen Rum Banana Bread. I got my kid involved in this one because, well…child labour’s cheap, right? So while I was sipping on…
Spellbinding Thug Kitchen Biryani
Okay, so this time I’d got my beady eyes on the One-Pot Chickpea Biryani from Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as Fuck. I’ve actually been wanting to try this recipe since when I first got the book, but the Spaghetti Pie ended up seducing me into cooking it first. Like a lover that’s been slighted, the…
For a Good Time Stress Your Way to Relaxation.
The thugs promised me a relaxing-ass evening if I made this yummy pasta dish: Swiss chard and tomato linguine with balsamic-glazed chickpeas. I’ve gotta say, I friggin needed to relax. Stress levels were creeping up to high. I hadn’t noticed just how tense I was, but you realise you’re stressed when your jaw starts to…
Dear Winter. Go Fuck Yourself. Shitty Regards From My Toes.
It’s winter. Fucking winter. You lie awake at night with ice-cold toes under your blanket. You can hear the clock ticking. Tick tock, tick tock. sarcastically reminding you that you only have a few hours of shut-eye left before you’re meant to get up to start another day. The more aware you become of the time, the harder…
Smuggling Swedes, Running Rutabagas.
Roasted Rutabaga Wedges. Page 4 of Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as Fuck Feast your eyes on my contraband. This shit is known as a swede, or as a rutabaga. In my world this would be called a swede, and it’s be super easy to find dozens of them in a supermarket in the UK. But since moving…
Getting Boozy in the Heat with Thug Kitchen
Boozy Watermelon and Papaya Salad. page 103 Thug Kitchen Party Grub book. When it’s hot as balls and you need to rehydrate, fruit is an awesome way to do that. So throwing together this Thug Kitchen boozy watermelon and papaya salad is a fucking wicked excellent idea when there’s a heat wave going on. The…
To BBQ, or Not To BBQ. That’s the Question. The Answer is Always the Same: Fuck Yes!
In this mother of all heatwaves all you wanna do is eat ice-cream cones while half perched inside your freezer. But sometimes a person needs something more than just ice cream and fluids. This is one of those times. And this moment in time calls for hot coals and BBQ tongs. So today my half dead, shrivelled…
Spin The Bottle: Thug Kitchen Watermelon-Strawberry Tequila Punch
I’m about a thousand recipes from the finishing line of this challenge. But having cooked all the recipes from the first Thug Kitchen cookbook, I’ve moved on to the others. And I’ve done it with the sort of gung-ho attitude that you can only truly acquire if you’re sleep-deprived, over-tired, and just don’t have any…
