The Hairy Bikers are David Myers and Simon King, two northern blokes with a passion for cooking and food. The pair began their TV careers working behind the scenes, Si as a first assistant director and locations manager for film and television and Dave as a BBC make-up artist specialising in prosthetics. It was on the set of a TV drama that they first met and became friends.
The cooks first appeared in front of the camera for their pilot Hairy Bikers series, filmed in Portugal. No strangers to travel before they started working together, the lads embraced the opportunity to seek out new dishes from around the globe when their show took off. Since then, they’ve travelled to Namibia, India, Vietnam, Argentina and Mexico as well as sampling the cuisines of places nearer to home, such as Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Swedish meatballs with cream sauce
Liver and bacon with onions and gravy
Oxtail stew
Braised steak with gravy
Chicken noodle soup
Mulligatawny soup
Rye crispbread
Homemade fish fingers
Toasted crumpets and warm spiced berries with yoghurt and honey
Finnish pancakes
Fried bacon with poached egg and tomatoes
Sage and parmesan palmiers
Bacon and egg canapés
Minced beef pinwheels
Double baked cheese soufflés
Vegetable samosas
Fondant potatoes
Spring greens with bacon and hazelnuts
Simple layered salad
Best-ever banoffee pie
Jam roly-poly
Vodka strawberry cheesecake
Pavlova
Cinnamon, banana and blueberry muffins
Really good rye bread
Battenberg cake
Bakewell tart
Basic white rolls
Hot chocolate
Christmas pudding vodka
Real guacamole
Raw salsa
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