Quick tasty lamb curry with mushrooms to make from leftover lamb from the Sunday roast.
Leftover Chicken Noodle Salad with Sesame Seeds
Using up leftover chicken in a cold noodle salad is a quick, healthy lunch that transforms fridge bits and pieces into a tasty meal – perfect for a packed lunch too. This might feel like a long ingredient list, and yes, there’s a lot of chopping. The carrot takes longest – but it’s very straightforward. […]
Microwave Chicken Supreme with Lemon
You can microwave chicken supreme pieces in around 30 minutes including prep time. Cooking chicken supreme joints by this combi microwave method gets you juicy succulent chicken. Lots of people have combi-microwave ovens yet only use them as standard microwaves. The combi function is often a mystery to many owners. I’m evangelical about combi-microwave cooking […]
Turkey Thigh Tagine – An Easy Moroccan Style Stew
Make this delicious Moroccan style stew recipe with turkey thigh meat. This turkey thigh tagine recipe uses cubed turkey stewing meat with lots of vegetables and tomatoes. Around 20 years ago, whilst browsing online and eating al-desko I printed a recipe from The Guardian website. I cannot remember who wrote the recipe. For many years […]
Raspberry Flapjacks with Coconut Traybake – Sticky but Easy!
What to make when you have a home grown raspberry glut; this recipe makes 12-16 depending on how big you dare eat them. I’m trying to achieve a happy balance of chewiness and not falling apart. Given these contain fresh fruit, you might also count them as one of your five a day but we’d be fibbing if we didn’t acknowledge how much butter and sugar goes into a tray of these babies.
10 Fabulous Things About Food Blogging
1st July marks eleven years since my first blog post. Returning from The Break I wanted to recap my most positive experiences and happy blogging memories. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – naturally there’ll be a follow up of 10 things that went eclair-shaped but reading some old […]
Tom Yum Prawn Noodle Soup
Ted has long been a fan of Wagamama and familiar with their noodle soups. Normally one evening per week I might make a home made tribute with the stock from that week’s chicken carcass, it’s a very quick meal into which I chuck whichever vegetables are left in the fridge and fast to cut up […]
Cinnamon and Raisin Flapjacks
Raisin flapjacks with cinnamon must be the classic flavour for these sticky oat bars. The nature of flapjacks can vary. You get the crumbly ones in cafes, or the plastic wrapped manufactured wodges sold in newsagents. I won’t lie, those manufactured flapjacks played part in my downfall for many years. I couldn’t resist buying pre-wrapped […]
PG Tips Monkey Cake
For too long I’d put off returning to blogging and the biggest bottleneck is the first post. How on earth to explain what happened and where the time went? It can’t be summed up in a single post because it will just become that bottleneck again. My Custard Pie came close to explaining similar feelings […]
Combi Microwave Potato Wedges Alternative to Chips
Just as satisfying as chips, combi microwave potato wedges are easy to make, ready super fast and taste great dipped into sauces and dips! Served here alongside cod portions, this post was originally commissioned by Young’s Fish. My nearest traditional chippy, despite living in London, is a fifteen minute walk away meaning at least a […]
Côte Brasserie – Barbican
All things French, as you may know, are my passion. We visit France 2-3 times per year. As a rough estimate I have been to France over fifty times, the equivalent of over a year of my life spent there. Bridging the gap until my next French fix this August, Côte Brasserie invited me to […]
Strawberry Sandwich Cake
A twist on the traditional strawberry jam sponge cake, recipe made in association with Typhoo. Strawberries… the great British summer fruit. I am making the most of them this year because normally we are awash with so many homegrown raspberries we have no reason to buy any other berries. Having pruned the bushes back for […]
