By Indi | January 7, 2010
Lasan restaurant from Birmingham won the final and Indian Restaurants category on Gordon Ramsay’s F Word television show on Channel 4. They won the show’s final against chef team from The Pheasant, who serve traditional British food. Prior to the final, they won the semi-final against Santa Maria (South American cuisine) and Sweet Mandarin (Chinese [...]
Categories: Food
Tagged: Aktar Islam, Bengali, category, cookery, cuisine, F word, Food, Gordon Ramsay, indian restaurant, Jabbar Khan, lasan, Lasan Restaurant, The Curry Corner, The F Word, UK, winners
By Nazhat | December 16, 2009
Asian weddings are a perfect blend of traditions, values and celebrations and planning Brit-Asian weddings is now a far more involved, exciting and in many cases, a stressful experience.
The advent of events to promote services and suppliers for Asian weddings is now emerging to be one great way of reducing the stress and worry.
DESIblitz.com and [...]
Categories: Brit-Asian
Tagged: allesley hotel, asian, asian wedding fayre, biti, Blush, blush team, Bridal, bride, coventry, cuisine, des-c, Desi, desi girl, designer, dress, exhibition, fair, Fashion, fashion show, groom, indian, lehnga, marriage, nashaa, riitih, sabrina, sherwani, UK, wedding, ziggi
By Amit | November 9, 2009
Finding the right wine to drink with Indian and South Asian cuisine can be an interesting affair. Most people would think that red wine is most suited due to its old time pairing with meat, and it being cooked in spices. But with a major aspect of Indian food being vegetarian, it’s important not to [...]
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Tagged: choice, cuisine, dining, drink, eating, Food, indian food, pairing, red wine, restaurant, white wine, wine
By Amit | April 2, 2009
Following Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s announcement that rules on foreign workers entering the UK will be tightened and the ’shortage occupation list’ to remove chefs from the list, the UK curry restaurant trade is beginning to feel the impact of these changes.
Ministers have suggested that they plan to force restaurants and takeaways to recruit chefs [...]
Categories: Brit-Asian, Food
Tagged: asian, bangladeshi, Brit-Asian, chef, clutural, cooking, cuisine, dining, ethnic restaurants, Food, government, home secretary, indian, Jabbar Khan, lasan, Lasan Restaurant, law, ministers, professional chef, restaurant kitchen, rules, shortage, South Asian, takeaways, UK, women
By Madhu | March 10, 2009
The well-known British dish called Shepherd’s Pie is named after the fact that its main ingredient is usually lamb or mutton, and that shepherds traditionally look after sheep. This recipe however, is a meat free recipe of the same dish.
History says that traditionally Shepherd’s Pie was served on a Monday, using up the leftover Sunday roast [...]
Categories: Brit-Asian, Food
Tagged: chili powder, cooking, cuisine, Desi, Food, garlic cloves, ginger root, grated cheese, learn, meat substitute, mexican, oxo, recipe, sheperds pie, spring onions, tomato puree, uk supermarkets, vegan, vegetarian recipe
By Amit | May 27, 2008
Indian and Pakistani food plays a very important role in Asian weddings and all other celebratory occasions. Depending on the type of event, the cuisine for the day should make guests feel they are special and their taste-buds dancing to the sumptuous food served. As the cuisine is always a talking point of Asian weddings.
The [...]
Categories: Brit-Asian, Food
Tagged: Asian Bridal Fayre, Asian Wedding Cuisine, Brit-Asian, british asian, chinese, cuisine, english, features, Food, history, indian, pakistani, spice corner, wedding