chilli & lemon crab risotto.

Mixing light, lemony flavours and delicate crab with hearty risotto and a kick of red chilli. Really easy to rustle up from cupboard and freezer essentials, this crab risotto recipe features a few of the range from the Very Lazy lot. With an ethos of fuss free cooking, the likes of chopped red chillies, garlic paste and preserved ginger are just a few of their popular staple ingredients. In this recipe, it's all about the finely chopped red chillies (no sore eyes) and pungent garlic pasta to create this flavoursome (and super simple) seafood risotto dish.

thai crab cake noodles.

After my visit to Cromer, I had a fair amount of fresh Cromer crab to get through. We took as much as we could carry in my boot, with cool bags and ice, to enjoy the delights of fresh seafood here in the Midlands. Sadly for seafood lovers, the Midlands isn't best known for its coastline or catch of the day. The first thing I made was my favourite Nigella crab pasta recipe, but next in line was crab cakes. I decided to make them miniature to toss through some fresh egg noodles with lots of veg and oyster sauce.

crab and leek tart: hairy bikers' recipe.

i first saw this crab and leek tart recipe on a lazy weekend morning on the hairy biker's best of british. if you've not seen this programme before i really suggest you try and catch it or find it on iplayer - as the title suggests they roam around beautiful great britain creating delicious dishes from the local ingredients in that area. i think this one might have been orkney (do correct me if i'm wrong i was too distracted by the look of the tart!) and wow wow wow it's a fantastic combination!