Today I’m sharing with you Chicken Fiesta, an old school recipe (similar to Coronation Chicken) that I have adapted over the years.I can’t believe I’ve not shared this before! I make Chicken Fiesta every time I have some leftover chicken and grapes in the fridge but rarely ever add the cream and when I haven’t…
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Simple Slow Cooked Beetroot – so easy!
I had a brainwave today and made this Simple Slow Cooked Beetroot! I was going through my salad drawer and noticed a bunch or organic beetroot that I’d picked up cheaply recently. I’ve never cooked beetroot before and knew that boiling was the usual way of cooking it. I remember as a child one of…
Creamy Italian Salad Dressing – great with Pizza!
In association with Papa John’s My hubby loves Creamy Italian Salad Dressing and many years ago developed this recipe which I’d forgotten all about until the other day. It wasn’t quite right though as translating it to measured spoons (which I use for all my recipes) wasn’t the same as grabbing a spoon from the…
Prawn & Egg Salad – a quick and easy meal!
Today I’m bringing you my Prawn & Egg Salad which is probably more or an idea than a recipe but it’s one that you can build on and adapt as you please. This salad came about a couple of weeks ago when my kids had gone off on a day trip with their grandparents and…
SPAM Salad with Garlic Croutons and Gruyère
Many people associate SPAM Chopped Pork and Ham with their school days when it was always served deep fryed and coated in batter. Well times have moved on and there are a whole host of more exciting ways to use this useful store cupboard staple. One such way is in this delicious SPAM Salad with Garlic…
10 Healthy Recipes to get you motivated!
10 Healthy Recipes After the excesses of Christmas there is always much talk of diets, detox and New Year’s resolutions. I’m not really a fan of any of these things especially the term diet. To me diets were invented to sell books, classes etc and the problem with them is that as soon as people…
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…
Warm Rice & Quinoa Salad with Pan Fried Tofu
This recipe was inspired by a Savoury Rice Salad in my much loved Entertaining with Cranks book. Even though I’m not a vegetarian I have always loved vegetarian food and in some ways find it much more adventurous than cooking with meat. My Warm Rice & Quinoa Salad with Pan Fried Tofu uses the softer…
Chilli Prawn and Pasta Salad
My daughter has been nagging me for a long time to make pasta salad because if we’ve ever had to buy lunch out this is what she chooses over a sandwich. So one night feeling inspired I thought about what flavours would work well together and so my Chilli Prawn and Pasta Salad was born….
A Big Night In (& an easy Salad Dressing)
MoneySupermarket recently launched a competition for bloggers to show just how much fun you can have staying in with the help of £50. They will also be choosing one random blogger to win £500! Nights out on the town aren’t cheap these days so I leapt at the chance to have my ideal night at…
