Emma's Nomad Kitchen

19/04/2020

This is exciting!

28/03/2020

Want some inspiration for what to do with your beans & pulses...or how to freeze veg - listen to Samin Nosrat’s new podcast (she wrote Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat) -

‎Show Home Cooking, Ep Bean There, Done That (with Josh Malina) - 27 Mar 2020

20/03/2020

I’m so worried about small local business in Tunbridge Wells during this time. Please help them by buying their products online, book deliveries and buy vouchers. I recommend you follow these and your favourite local businesses so you can see how to support them and get updates as things change. I will try and update this post as things change 🙂

Here are the businesses you can help from your house -

Food & Drinks -
Juliets - Delivery within a 5 mile radius, free with a minimum order of £20.00.
Sankey's - Delivery options and free when spending over £25
The Weald Smokery - Online orders as normal
https://deliveroo.co.uk/menu/royal-tunbridge-wells/royal-tunbridge-wells/vittle-and-swig - Order from your fav local restaurants like Vittle & Swig, St Johns Yard, The Secret Cellar, Fine Grind etc
Locality Fruit & Veg boxes with free delivery for TW
Ian Chatfield Butchers & Deli - Currently has free delivery in Tonbridge
The Zero Waste Company Offering a delivery service
Hattons Royal Tunbridge Wells - Delivery options and gift vouchers to purchase all online
Geography - Buy vouchers and they are offering delivery within a 2 mile radius for Mothers Day with 20% off and non min spend - just call them
Kitsu - Deliveries for £2.50 - see menu online and order by phone
The Cakeshed - Deliveries in TW for isolated people as a treat
Fuggles Beer Cafe Tunbridge Wells - Purchase gift vouchers online
Framptons Tunbridge Wells - menu online and taking phone orders, also selling home hampers with essentials for £10!
Thackeray's - offering home delivery from Wednesday 25th March
Nourish Community Foodbank - Donate to your local Food Bank with money or drop off food

Exercise -
Freestyle Yoga Project - free classes on youtube and daily live classes

Shopping -
https://darlingandwild.co.uk/ - buy some flowers online with delivery

Entertainment -
Trinity Theatre - buy vouchers online and buy whole cakes for delivery for Mother’s Day
Tunbridge Wells Forum - buy merch from their new website and listen to live concerts on Facebook and donate

Photo credit The Pantiles

09/01/2020

Next stop is Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 😎😊

Here are some photos from one of the cooking classes I did. The good thing about this class was that we made lots of things from scratch, rather than using pre-made ingredients eg we squeezed our own coconut milk from freshly grated coconut which I loved! We made -

- Chicken salad with tangy Vietnamese dressing and peanuts
- Prawn and pork pancakes - with turmeric and fresh coconut milk batter, and a dipping sauce. You eat the pancakes by cutting the pancake into slice, wrapping in a salad leaf and dipping in the sauce
- Banana tapioca pudding, which more roasted peanuts on top

09/01/2020

Hey sorry it’s been a while! Thought I’d share some photos and thoughts from my favourite meal of 2019 (maybe even ever!) in Ubud, Bali -

This restaurant is special, it focuses on creating desserts with local ingredients - think local chocolate, vanilla, coconut and coffee. I even did a chocolate making course with their chocolate supplier.

The meal started with a tour of their garden - showing us lots of local herbs, spices and fruits used in the dishes. We then ate 7 courses of savoury, tour through the kitchen, 7 courses of dessert (with cocktail pairing!) and then 7 petit fours.

One of the best dishes was their coconut tiramisu made with local chocolate and lots of different types and textures of coconut - sooooo good!

I found out about this restaurant and concept by watching the Netflix ‘Chefs Table’ series 4, episode 4 https://www.netflix.com/title/80007945

25/07/2019

After a few weeks in Canggu, Bali, here are my fav dishes -

- Beef Cheek Rendang (again!)
- Tuna Sate (Indonesian version of satay) - familiar peanut sauce, but the sticks are lemongrass and the tuna is minced - sooo fragrant and yummy
- Sweetcorn fritters with green chilli dipping sauce
- Nasi Goreng - stir fried rice with XO sauce, fried egg, pickles and grilled fish on the side
- Jackfruit curry - really nice texture - bit like pulled meat

21/07/2019

Next instalment of SE Asian street food....here are my favourites from Singapore 🦀🌶🍲 -

- Chilli Crab with steamed buns - whole crab pieces covered in a sweet and slightly spicy crab sauce. You have to wear an apron and plastic gloves to eat it as it’s so messy!
- Mixed Satay - beef being my favourite. The sticks were properly charred around the outside and the sauce was thick with small pieces of peanut
- Prata with chicken curry - which is like a sweet pathra (flakey naan bread) which is cooked on a very hot griddle with lots of ghee
- Beef rendang (no photo sorry!) the most mouth watering giant pieces of slow cooked beef in a thick spicy sauce - can’t wait to make this for you in the UK!

19/07/2019

As some of you know - my husband and I have packed up our house in TW and gone travelling again. We’re off for 3 months to start with and we started in Bangkok. Here are some of my favourite street food, that I promise I will recreate at a future supper club -

- Papaya salad - with lots of chillis, fish sauce, sugar and lime
- Mango sticky rice - sweet and savoury rice, with coconut milk, condensed milk, slices of mango and crispy corn pieces
- Crab and egg curry - sweet and spicy
- Massaman curry with a thick sauce
- Tom Yum soup - with lots of seafood - amazing spicy, creamy, lime based soup - one of our fav dishes
- Crab, mixed seafood and sour glass noodle salad

17/07/2019

First cooking class in Bangkok 🥳🥳

We went to a wet market first - which was full of live frogs, piles of spices and unusual fruits.

We then made
- Chicken mince lemongrass salad - with lots of lime, fish sauce and chilli
- Prawn Pad Thai - fried the tofu first to get it crispy and cooked the egg last in half the pan to scramble it
- Chicken Massaman Curry - lovely sauce thickened with pieces of cooked potato and not too spicy
- Ate (didn’t make) Mango sticky rice and lots of difference fruits - everyone loved mangastines