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:
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Apple crumble |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lunch, Main Dish | Serve Hot | 50 minutes | |
| A deep-set omelette with sliced potatoes and onions is the best known Spanish tortilla. | ||||
Lemon posset |
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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 |
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Lunch, Soups, Starter | Vegetarian, Vegan | Freezable, Serve Hot | 55 minutes |
| A Winter-warming soup made with butternut squash and onions | ||||
Chicken fajitas |
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Lunch, Main Dish | Serve Hot | 11 minutes | |
| Chicken fajitas are a simple to make but fun to eat Mexican food | ||||
Chocolate cake |
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Dessert | Egg | Serve Cold | 35 minutes |
| A light, moist, rich tasting chocolate cake | ||||
Chocolate banana fools |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lunch, Main Dish | Gourmet, Serve Hot | 11 minutes | |
| Pork burgers with melted cheese, avocado, lettuce and mayonnaise. | ||||
Banana bread with sultanas |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Breakfast, Lunch, Snack | 5 minutes | ||
| Wrap with ham, lettuce and pickle. | ||||
Chicken kebab with butternut squash and chick peas |
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Lunch, Main Dish | 10 minutes | ||
| Healthy chicken kebab with butternut squash and chick peas | ||||
Honey yogurt with chopped apple |
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Breakfast, Dessert | 4 minutes | ||
| Honey yogurt with chopped apple | ||||
Garlic bourson light cheese on olive bread |
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Breakfast, Lunch, Side Dish, Snack, Starter | 3 minutes | ||
| A light tasty snack or starter. | ||||
Steak and blue cheese in ciabatta roll |
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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.




























