I have been using my slow cooker more and more lately and slow cooking gammon (check out 2 Ingredient Slow Cooker Pulled Gammon). The best thing about it is that there is always plenty of leftover gammon and so my Quiche Lorraine with Slow Cooked Pulled Gammon is the perfect dish to use some of…
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Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse)
Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) are traditional Danish butter cookies made with chopped almonds. Every tin of Danish Butter Cookies has Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) in it but homemade ones taste so much better. My mother used to make these cookies every Christmas using a special star shaped disc on her meat mincer. She’d…
Credit Crunch Munch March/April round-up
We’ve had another delightful batch of entries to Credit Crunch and it’s been good to see some new blogs entering too. So let’s not hang about – on with the recipes! First up were Jane from Onions & Paper’s Red Lentil Balls or Mercimek Koftesi which she was inspired to re-create after eating them on…
Easter Chocolate Granola Cakes
Today I’m sharing my Easter Chocolate Granola Cakes with you! Feeling the urge to do something Eastery with a packet of chocolate mini eggs I had, I pondered upon what I should do with them. The old faithful cupcake sprang to mind but aware of the abundance of recipes for egg adorned Easter cupcakes I…
Blueberry, Banana and White Chocolate Muffins
Blueberry, Banana and White Chocolate Muffins are divinely moist and delicious! For a more fancy version head over to my Blueberry, Banana & White Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe with a white chocolate drizzle! In honour of Mother’s Day, I thought I would bake Blueberry, Banana and White Chocolate Muffins. Having road-tested first with my family,…
Hippo-Potatomus Recipe
Hippo-Potatomus Recipe Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is out on Blu-ray and DVD 17th Feb and to celebrate I have a 3 DVDs to give away to 3 lucky readers. I can also share with you the specially created recipe for Hippo-Potatomus a great dish to make with the kids during half-term! The movie…
Plum Crumble
Faced with a punnet of plums that needed using up and not having made a plum crumble for an absolute age I set about making this Plum Crumble taking elements from here and there. I think the reason I don’t make crumble all the time is the thought of the rubbing in the butter and…
Perfect Poached Eggs
Perfect Poached Eggs are not difficult to make if you follow my easy instructions. Great on toast, as part of an English breakfast or many other meals! How to Make Perfect Poached Eggs Are you a breakfast eater or do you sometimes find yourself skipping one of the most important meals of the day? Apparently…
Shepherd’s Pie
Shepherd’s Pie using leftover roast beef with added dried porcini mushrooms for a really delicious and intense flavour. Yes, this is technically a Cottage Pie! You may have spotted the Sainsbury campaign to Make Your Roast Go Further so as I’m always trying to cook economically I jumped at the chance to join in! I…
Emmental Soda Bread
This delicious Emmental Soda Bread is such a quick and easy loaf to make. Enhanced with Grana Padano, mustard and cider it’s the perfect bread to go with a bowl of soup or to make sandwiches with! Faced with a block of Emmental that had languished in the fridge right up until its sell by…