I don't think you can beat a Friday night curry - and I for one would happily eat it every night of the week. Last Friday's DIY curry was one of my fave yet though, so thought I'd share it with you on the proviso no one tells Mrs Parmar this is what her latest chapatis got used for. We'll tell her it was okra. Its a super simple fragrant curry that you can leave to cook for a few hours whilst you get on with stuff. Don't be put off by the longish list of ingredients - it does

Recently I was lucky enough to interview Anna Jones (ex-Fifteen, chef, stylist & writer) for The Pool to promote her second book, A Modern Way to Cook - which by the way is excellent. It's packed with really inspiring recipes with vegetables at the forefront without it being faddy health food or offputting to hardened meat eaters. I'm not normally a recipe follower, but there are definitely a few in Anna's book that I've bookmarked to try and this Sticky Green Bean & Chilli P

Curries are one of the best things you can make ahead and freeze for when you need them; they're quick, tasty and actually improve from being left as the flavours deepen and intermingle. As you may be able to tell from the contents of this blog, we eat a lot of Indian food, but this curry is a Thai dish that I've made up and am quite pleased with. Since sourcing some shrimp paste and some dried shrimps from a Korean supermarket on Golders Green Road, my Thai cooking has come

I wrote this recipe for a piece I did for The Debrief on how to make your Sunday roast chicken last for seven meals, but it's a great dish in its own right so I'm sharing it today. (You can read my piece here) As ever, with most of my Indian recipes, this is a Mrs Parmar special. Being vegetarian, she would obviously not put chicken in hers, but I appreciate that lots of you would like to! Prawns would also be good to use - basically anything that doesn't need very much cooki

Weeks of hot cross buns, mini eggs and a run of birthday celebrations mean that I have acquired some extra poundage lately and my PT (the fantastic Laura Williams) has had to stage a small intervention, so expect a very welcome return to healthy eating and calorie counting. Here's a 280 calorie brunch dish of crispy kale with scrambled eggs and fairly low cal feta to get us started: Ingredients (serves one) Two eggs 20g feta Handful of kale Smidgen of coconut oil Sriracha Fry

This is a bit of a different post for me, but I get asked for diet tips quite a lot. I'm no expert, but I have spend a good proportion of my life trying to lose a few pounds so I do have a few tricks up my sleeve and thought I'd share them. The items above are all pretty key to losing weight quickly, and you should note that I generally follow a low cal, low carb diet - so you lucky people who do Slimming World and can eat all the pasta you like, this may not be for you. Also

Duck is one of my favourite meats, but its one that Rich isn't that fussed about so I wanted to make something really tasty to try and get him a bit more excited about it. Tricky, when I'm trying to keep the calories down but I think this recipe helped a bit. I had a look on the Gressingham website for inspiration, and found this which worked really well aside from the fact I was distracted by the baby's bedtime and left my duck in the oven a touch too long but at least the s