Profile: Paul

Name:	Paul Richardson
Age:	31
Location:	Milton Keynes, England
Website:	techboy.co.uk
Twitter:	TechboyUK
Cooking Experience:	Average
Gender:	Male
About me:	I like to cook full-flavoured, generally healthy food with just a few good quality ingredients, although I am also partial to unhealthy but delicious desserts! My favourite piece of cooking equipment is my George Foreman grill because it is great for making good tasting, healthy food quickly. Other interests include computing, Adventure Races, Triathlons, running, cycling (on and off road), swimming, rock climbing, snowboarding, target shooting, photography and cars.

Paul added these 24 recipes:

Recipe	Course	Allergies	Misc	Total Time
Apple crumble
	Dessert	Vegan, Vegetarian	Serve Hot or Cold	55 minutes
	A perfect combination of apple flavour and crumbly texture. A great summertime dessert.
Sexy swedish buns
	Breakfast, Dessert, Snack		Child Friendly, Serve Hot or Cold	2 hours
	These Swedish buns are full of Blueberry goodness. They are really large - ideal for those of you big appetites!
Green lentil salad with oven roasted tomatoes
	Lunch, Main Dish, Salads, Side Dish, Starter	Vegetarian	Serve Hot or Cold	20 minutes
	A tasty and healthy salad which can be served as a main meal or a side dish.
Rich chocolate brownies
	Dessert, Snack		Child Friendly, Freezable, Serve Hot or Cold	35 minutes
	Chocolate brownies that contain generous amounts of both milk and plain chocolate - instead of adding sugar to the mixture. Serve them in small squares as they are very rich.
Honeyed banana ice cream with hazelnuts
	Dessert	Egg, Milk, Nuts	Child Friendly, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold, Gourmet, Freezable	8 hours, 12 minutes
	A wonderful ice-cream with a great match of flavours (banana, honey and hazelnuts). The hazelnuts give the soft ice-cream a part-crunchy texture.
Bacon, avocado and soured cream pancakes
	Breakfast, Lunch, Main Dish, Starter		Freezable, Pre-preparable, Serve Hot	35 minutes
	Hot pancakes with a delicious bacon, avocado and soured cream filling
Warm pancakes with caramelised pears
	Breakfast, Dessert		Serve Hot	11 minutes
	A deliciously different filling for pancakes! The pears are caramelised on the outside and remain warm and juicy on the inside.
Pancakes
	Breakfast, Dessert		Freezable, Serve Hot or Cold	25 minutes
	Pancakes - fun food that you can fill with pretty much anything, sweet or savoury!
Potato and onion tortilla
	Lunch, Main Dish		Serve Hot	50 minutes
	A deep-set omelette with sliced potatoes and onions is the best known Spanish tortilla.
Lemon posset
	Dessert		Serve Cold	7 minutes
	A simple, creamy dessert that has origins dating back to the Middle Ages. It is great for warm summer evenings and is particularly good when served with a crunchy biscuit
Winter butternut squash soup with tomato salsa
	Lunch, Soups, Starter	Vegetarian, Vegan	Freezable, Serve Hot	55 minutes
	A Winter-warming soup made with butternut squash and onions
Chicken fajitas
	Lunch, Main Dish		Serve Hot	11 minutes
	Chicken fajitas are a simple to make but fun to eat Mexican food
Chocolate cake
	Dessert	Egg	Serve Cold	35 minutes
	A light, moist, rich tasting chocolate cake
Chocolate banana fools
	Dessert	Milk	Child Friendly, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold	35 minutes
	A deluxe version of banana custard that looks great when served in glasses.
Chicken mushroom pie with thyme crust
	Main Dish	Egg	Freezable, Gourmet, Serve Hot	55 minutes
	A lovely creamy-tasting chicken and mushroom pie which you can make with left over roast chicken, or 2 whole grilled chicken breasts
Pork cheeseburger with avocado
	Lunch, Main Dish		Gourmet, Serve Hot	11 minutes
	Pork burgers with melted cheese, avocado, lettuce and mayonnaise.
Banana bread with sultanas
	Bread, Dessert, Snack	Egg	Serve Cold	1 hour
	A great tasting banana bread with juicy sultanas. Simple to make and is quite dense so doesn't produce many crumbs!
Grilled chicken with vegetables
	Main Dish		Serve Hot	14 minutes
	Grilled chicken breast and a variety of vegetables. Quick and easy to make, but is very healthy, tastes good and is filling
Steak and vegetables
	Main Dish			6 minutes
	Sirloin steak and some vegetables. This is really quick and simple recipe, but it is still full of flavour and is healthy
Ham wrap
	Breakfast, Lunch, Snack			5 minutes
	Wrap with ham, lettuce and pickle.
Chicken kebab with butternut squash and chick peas
	Lunch, Main Dish			10 minutes
	Healthy chicken kebab with butternut squash and chick peas
Honey yogurt with chopped apple
	Breakfast, Dessert			4 minutes
	Honey yogurt with chopped apple
Garlic bourson light cheese on olive bread
	Breakfast, Lunch, Side Dish, Snack, Starter			3 minutes
	A light tasty snack or starter.
Steak and blue cheese in ciabatta roll
	Lunch, Snack			6 minutes
	Steak and blue cheese in ciabatta roll

Paul added these 4 articles:

12 July

Food education in schools – shouldn’t it be essential?

I am 31 years old and had public school education in England until I was 10, then moved to a private school until I was 16. In that time I had 1 year of ‘Home Economics’ classes where we made a few cakes and cookies, but I was never really taught about food, ingredients, calories, fat content, protein, organic vs non-organic, etc. However I was taught woodwork, art, Craft Design Technology and Latin (all of which I have never used since – and I even did Latin as a GCSE)....

10 September

Chef titles explained

If you have watched television shows such as Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, you will have heard various chef titles such as ‘Executive chef’, ‘Sous chef’ and ‘commie’ but you might not know what they all mean.

Most professional kitchens are very hierarchical. The structure will change depending on the size of the restaurant, its style and the number of people it serves.

Here is an explanation of some of the main...

30 August

When is a pizza box not just a pizza box?

We all know that companies are being pushed to ‘go green’ with their packaging, by way of using less packaging, using more recycled products and by creating packaging that can be recycled or bio-degradable.

I have come across Green Box which have devised a really simple but obvious idea for pizza boxes. Right now, all pizza boxes are basically the same – you know the type that Dominos Pizza and Pizza Hut use for delivery of pizza....

19 July

What type of cook are you?

In March 2009 I was in an apartment in Alicante, Spain with 1 friend plus a group of 9 other people who I had only just met. We were out there on a rock climbing holiday. As the first day was wet, we had retired back to the apartment early in the evening and had picked up some food for dinner. The food was a mixture of salad, fish, bread, ham, cheese, sausage, etc. I don’t think it was very well planned, but there seemed to be a quite a bit of everything so certainly nobody would go...

Paul posted these comments:

Competition Tickets to the Royal Bath and West Show (2nd - 5th June, Somerset, England)

Congratulations to Dagni (http://www.getmecooking.com/user/dagni) for winning this competition!

Apple iPad - take your recipes into the kitchen

Let us know how you end up using it in the kitchen!

Also, feel free to send us any action shots (iPad in your kitchen, displaying a recipe from this site) that we can post here :-)

Review of food bloggers connect, London, November 2009

A music video of the event has been posted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpGNkbJ_M0&feature=player_embedded and I am in it :-)

Review of food bloggers connect, London, November 2009

I agree, things did get a bit rushed, but it was great fun.

FBC10 - I'll be there! :-)

Review of food bloggers connect, London, November 2009

Aoife - I'll see you there! :-)

Good to meet you too Carly. I like how you review restaurants. I critique them all the time with my friends but don't write about them - mainly because there aren't that many decent restaurants in Milton Keynes and I don't want to get banned lol.

Review of food bloggers connect, London, November 2009

General feedback from the event will be posted here: http://www.foodbloggerconnect.com/feedback/food-blogger-connect-2009/trackback/

Scrambled eggs

I liked this. I didn't used to add milk, but the milk made it more airy and fluffy.

Bread and butter pudding

The recipe looked easy, so I tried it myself.

Then I found out that as well as being easy to make, it was also very tasty!

I might try it again with whole-grain bread and see how that turns out.

Chocolate chip muffins

These were really easy to make!

I also added banana pieces which was nice.

When was the last time you tried a different supermarket?

There are 2 large superstores that are convenient for me - one near my office (Sainsbury's) and another near my house (Tesco).

I prefer the one near my office because they seem to have a better selection of food. Plus they have more check-out counters so the service is faster.