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By Anna, 1 October, 2009 2:56 pm

So I was chatting to Auntie Rene on the phone the other night; we were talking about this blog and she started revealing some culinary secrets and more to the point, sharing some of her recipes! I have a few lined up, but started with this one given to Rene years ago by a friend of hers.

It sounded good from the off, it was easy to make and it tastes absolutely delicious. There is one diced apple in the recipe and it adds such a different dimension to the flavour. There is no apple taste per se, just a rounded layer of flavour. It’s genius. Ian said it reminded him of a kashmir curry and he’s right. He experimented with the leftovers by putting a very mean drizzle of double cream in and stirring that round – it changed the dish again. So bear that in mind as an option if you like creamy curries; that taster was a bit rich for me, so keep it mean.

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By Anna, 13 September, 2009 11:32 am

Chinese chicken and chestnuts is one of our favourites of my Dad’s dishes. It’s sweet, but savoury, fragrant with ginger and sherry but dark with soy, unctuous and delicious. I am talking about the meal, you understand – not my Dad, because frankly, that would be a bizarre description of someone.

He was born in Shanghai and is part Chinese, so has a wide range of dishes in his repertoire – do feel free to request recipes for any of your favourites. If he has a recipe for it, he will have to cook it for us in order that I can blog it. This means we will get to eat it, so please… request away!

As he was the star chef at Chez Jones last Sunday, I am immortalising him and his unctuous chicken on this blog. So here is the Fred Jones guide to this beautiful Chinese dish.

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