Potential Spice Almighty Inspiration...

It was actually my birthday last month and apart from the usual girly gifts ( smellies/ Cath Kidston) my in-laws gave me something rather good. Its the newly published 'Masterchef everyday' cookbook. It has a great section featuring past contestants and whats they've been up to since. The 130 recipes are all the contestants own - including Celebrity Masterchef like Phil Vickery. And I think one of the best features is Gregg & John's reworking of 20 recipes for everyday folks who can't get hold of monkfish liver.

Linda Lusardi's Malaysian Beef and Potato curry sounds lush- and rather close to the new spice kit 'Magnificent Malaysian Rendang' with star anise and cinnamon. Might have to give her recipe a go...see how it compares.

Spice Almighty NEW flavours NEW packs

I have finally got round to developing the next FAB FOUR 'flavours' in the Spice Almighty spice kit  range.

There was much deliberation as they had to fit within the 'whole and ground spice in lil packs' format. Quite a feat if you know what goes into SE Asian currie. It was a bit of a conundru, and I wasted several little trees worth of paper in the process of writing out methods and recipes.

They will be called

MAGNIFICENT MALAYSIAN RENDANG
BETTER THAN A BIRYANI
TANTALISING THAI MASSAMAN
LOVELY SINGAPORE LAKSA

From the beginning I always imagined a broad mix of curries from all over Asia, not just the Indian continent. And I feel these are much closer to the beloved Burmese curries I grew up with.

Just got to make sure the other half has time to design them.