Brie & Cranberry Tear & Share Wreath a great centrepiece to any Christmas buffet. Think cheese straws in a ring sprinkled with hazelnuts! I recently decided I wanted to make a Brie & Cranberry puff pastry centrepiece. After toying with a few ideas which would have involved wasting some of the pastry I came up…
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Spiced Apple Lattice Pie
In association with British Gas Spiced Apple Lattice Pie with cinnamon, mixed spice and vanilla is the perfect pie for autumn and is utterly delicious. Using a lattice cutter makes light work of decoration! This week I’ve teamed up with British Gas to champion the lost art of home economics and at the same time…
Italian Minced Beef Plait – so quick & easy to prepare!
In association with Wahl Italian Minced Beef Plait is a quick and easy recipe which is like a cross between a meat loaf and a Beef Wellington – delicious and sure to please the family with its hidden veg. I have a really simple and easy recipe for you today, Italian Minced Beef Plait. I…
Rhubarb & Blueberry Tarte Tatin
Rhubarb & Blueberry Tarte Tatin is as delicious as it is pretty and super easy to make. With a Union Jack or cartwheel pattern (you decide) it’s also fun to create! So yesterday I found myself with some rhubarb I’d bought reduced and had a great idea to make sorbet, until I realised that my…
Cheesy Fish Chowder Pie
Cheesy Fish Chowder Pie combines fish pie mix, sweetcorn, leek and cornichons in a cheese sauce topped with a puff pastry lid! Simply divine! After taking a pack of fish pie mix out of the freezer the other day I had no idea what I was going to make with it. By tea time I…
Sweet Chilli Sausage Plait
Sweet Chilli Sausage Plait is a delicious mix of sausage meat, carrot, red onion, green chillies and sweet chilli sauce all wrapped up in a puff pastry plait. Great hot for dinner or cold for a picnic! In celebration of British Sausage Week which runs from 2 – 8 November, I decided I wanted to…
Leftover Pastry Banana Nutella Pinwheels
Leftover Pastry Banana Nutella Pinwheels are dainty puff pastry swirls flavoured with Banana and Nutella – so quick and easy to put together and so delicious! Today I’m bringing you Leftover Pastry Banana Nutella Pinwheels! My favourite way of making quiches is with puff pastry and I always have some left over. Often I’ll make…
Apple & Marzipan Dumplings
Apple and Marzipan Dumplings are both delicious and pretty. Made with homemade marzipan and decorated with pastry leaves, these dumplings are heavenly and easy to make! Apple & Marzipan Dumplings are utterly delicious and the perfect autumnal dessert. Apples are stuffed with homemade marzipan wrapped in puff pastry and decorated with puff pastry leaves. I…
10 Bloggers’ Favourite Recipes
I recently thought it would be really interesting to find out from a few bloggers what they cooked most from their own blogs. This was a very tough question indeed! Of course we have many favourites but the recipes we tend to make the most are the quick and easy ones where you barely need…
Broccoli & Tomato Quiche
Broccoli & Tomato Quiche is a fabulously easy to make vegetarian quiche the whole family will love! Made with a sheet of puff pastry it really couldn’t be easier! When I visited my grandparents as a child there was always an abundance of home cooked food but for some reason the savoury offerings have vanished…