Slow Cooked Pulled Lamb with White Wine & Root Vegetables One of our favourite dishes is lamb shanks which I have never made at home but really ought to! With this in mind my husband suggested that rather than roasting the leg of lamb we had, why didn’t I slow cook it to replicate the…
Lunch
Egg & Prawn Open Sandwich with Lemon Mayonnaise
Being half Danish I regularly put together Danish open sandwiches (smørrebrød) on traditional wholegrain rye bread but am aware it’s not to everyone’s taste. So when my mother told me about this particular Egg and Prawn open sandwich that she makes all the time, I thought it would be ideal to share during British Sandwich…
Quiche Lorraine with Slow Cooked Pulled Gammon
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…
Review: The Breville Café Style Sandwich Press from John Lewis
The lovely people over at John Lewis recently asked if I’d like to review anything electrical for my kitchen. My first thought was “do I actually need anything?” and then after a perusal of their website my eye was quickly drawn to the Breville VST026 Café Style Sandwich Press. We eat quite a lot of…
Chilli Pancake Stack
Chilli Pancake Stack is a delicious baked stack of coriander (cilantro) flavoured pancakes layered with beef chilli and a layer of melted cheese and jalapenos. As a food blogger I’m always challenging myself to come up with or try out new dishes but it’s also nice to be challenged by someone else occasionally. This week…
Sumptuous Turkey Pie
Sumptuous Turkey Pie is the perfect pie for using up your leftover Christmas turkey, bacon and cream. With added leeks and mushrooms this puff pastry pie is off the scale good so hence the name! I was in a quandary as to what to call this pie as Turkey, Bacon, Leek and Mushroom Pie was…
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…
Simple Pork Fried Rice
Simple Pork Fried Rice is a great way to use up leftover roast pork and vegetables from your salad drawer. A quick and tasty midweek meal that will please the whole family. Chinese New Year Chinese New Year falls on 31 January this year and marks the start of 15 days of celebration. This year…
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…
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…