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Steak with chimichurri sauce

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  • Serves: 4

  • Prep time: 15 mins

    plus chilling time

  • Cooking time: 10 mins

  • Total time: 25 mins

    plus chilling time

  • Skill level: Easy peasy

  • Costs: Mid-price

Originally from Argentina, chimichirri sauce is a robust and fresh-tasting herb, garlic and chilli sauce which is usually served with grilled or barbecued meat. It’s best to make the sauce a few hours in advance so the flavours can infuse into the oil and vinegar. Keep covered in the fridge but remove and leave at room temperature for about 30mins before serving. We’ve used rib eye steak here but sirloin, t-bone and fillet steaks all cook beautifully on the barbecue too. Make sure the coals are really hot so the meat sears instantly and take care not to overcook the steaks or they will be tough and dry.

Ingredients

For the sauce:

  • 1 red chilli pepper, deseeded and very finely chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
  • 6tbsp fresh finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 2tbsp fresh finely chopped oregano
  • 2tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 4tbsp olive oil
  • 1tsp sea salt flakes
  • 1tsp freshly ground black pepper

For the steaks:

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If fresh oregano is unavailable use 2tsp dried oregano instead.

Method

  1. To make the sauce, mix the chilli pepper, parsley and oregano in a small bowl. Stir in the vinegar, oil, salt flakes and pepper. Cover and chill for 2-3hrs or overnight to allow all the flavours to infuse.
  2. Season the steaks lightly with salt and freshly ground black pepper and cook on a hot barbecue for 4-6mins each side (depending on how you like your steak cooked).
  3. Remove the steak from the barbecue and cover and rest for 5mins. Serve each steak topped with a spoonful of the chimichurri sauce and with chips on the side.

By Nichola Palmer

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Spicy Thai crab cakes

Last night, I came the closest to crying that I have in months. I’m not much of a crier these days – what’s to cry about, really? – so I was quite surprised when I felt those little pinpricks behind my eyes.

It was about 6.30pm and was sitting on the stairs just down from the the floor of our house that we share with Kitty. My husband was trying to get Kitty in the bath and she was having a little tantrum. “Neaoooo!!! Neeaaoooo!! WanttogetOUT wanttogetDOWN!” She was red-faced, weeping, voice hesitant and hiccuping from trying to talk while crying. She was exhausted and I felt sorry for her – since dropping her big lunchtime nap and replacing it with ad hoc little morning catnaps, Kitty’s mood come bathtime is unpredictable. She can either have slept too much or too little or too late during the day, meaning she is either full of beans and impossible to bathe, or overtired – and impossible to bathe. 
It’s such a boring story. Scratch the surface of any household with children and they’ll have some similar problem. Anyway, I say impossible to bathe, what I mean is that sometimes we all enjoy bathtime and sometimes we do not. She is still always in bed by about 7.15pm – when she actually goes to sleep is up to her and not my problem. 
But last night it was hard to be sanguine. Just as I thought that life was tedious enough, fate decided to hand my ass to me by giving me one of those gluey headcolds that means you can’t hear, or think, or see for about a week. The day had been long and tedious, with Kitty watching far too much telly and being left to run riot all over the house, dropping food and spilling drinks, while I quietly despaired. 
And although it’s not forever – soon it will be Spring! Soon I won’t be pregnant! – days like that – when I lose my grip completely and Kitty eats junk and watches TV all day – leave me depressed as hell. On top of my general gestational insomnia, I’ve now also got to deal with my cold keeping me up at night, so the days are sharp-edged, bad and bleak enough, without feeling sad that I have totally neglected my child. It’s not her fault I’m ill, or that I’m pregnant. She is 2 and the law of cliches has decided that she is going to be a little jerk for an indeterminate number of coming months (years?) She is just doing what toddlers do. Like cats catch mice. 
I considered all this and did what any sensible woman would do and nearly cried for a few seconds. Then I got up and went downstairs to make some spicy Thai crabcakes. 
I don’t use tinned stuff much, reasoning that it’s better to get things fresh, but making fish cakes or crab cakes from tinned produce is a thing that I hear it’s okay to do. I got the idea for these crabcakes from a recipe book but I have altered the recipe so much here that I don’t think I’ll bother crediting the cook.
These must be shallow-fried, so they are not really suitable for entertaining, as I always think frying things in company doesn’t work – it makes a smell and creates an unmellow atmosphere – plus you have to be at the stove, tending and poking your batches, rather than gossiping and pouring drinks. These are better done as a treat dinner for you and someone else. Or just you. If you are feeling very organised you can make them in the morning, leave them in the fridge and then fry off in time for dinner.
They were very nice, I think. My sense of smell and taste has done a bunk. My husband said they were delicious, but he may have just been heading off another tantrum. 
Thai crab cakes
Makes about eight
2 tins crab meat — I used John West, from Waitrose
1 small bunch coriander
1 red chilli, sloppily de-seeded
2 spring onions, roughly chopped
1 tsp fish sauce, if you have it
1 large pinch salt
1 stick lemongrass, cut into three (if you have it)
1 thumb-sized piece ginger, peeled and chopped into 3
1 small clove garlic – if you LIKE, I didn’t
two large handfuls medium matzoh meal (or the equivalent breadcrumbs)
1 egg
1 Drain the crab meat in a sieve and break up with your fingertips
2 Put everything else except the matzoh and the egg in a whizzer and whizz
3 Combine everything in a bowl, stirring in the egg and the matzoh
4 Shape the mixture into flat patties, about 4-5cm across
5 Fry off in a shallow pool of ground nut oil until golden brown
We ate these wrapped in lettuce leaves and dipped in Encona sweet chilli sauce. My husband said “Just cry, let it all out.” And I said “No. No way.” Then we watched Friday Night Lights and both blubbed a little bit – because sometimes real life just doesn’t deserve your tears. 

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Chipolata and sweet pepper pan fry

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Sausages are a firm family dinner favourite, but instead of serving with chips, mix things up with this pan fry recipe the whole family will love. A tasty supper dish of red and yellow peppers flavoured with garlic and sweet chilli sauce, served with pan cooked thin pork sausages. With all the different flavours packed into one, we think this could soon become one of your midweek must makes. This recipe tastes best served over a bed of fresh pasta.

  • Serves: 2

  • Prep time: 10 mins

  • Cooking time: 25 mins

  • Total time: 35 mins

  • Skill level: Easy peasy

  • Costs: Cheap as chips

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For a fruity twist, core and thickly slice an eating apple, then mix into the pan when you add the sausages.

Ingredients

  • 2tbsp olive oil
  • 1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced
  • 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 2tbsp sweet chilli sauce
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 6 pork chipolatas

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a frying pan and stir fry the peppers for 5 mins until lightly browned. Add the garlic and chilli sauce and continue to cook, stirring, for a further 5 mins. Season to taste.
  2. Put the sausages in the pan and cook over a medium heat for a further 15 mins, turning the sausages occasionally, until browned and cooked through.
  3. Serve straight from the pan, accompanied with crusty bread or freshly cooked pasta.

By Kathryn Hawkins

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Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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