Warm Rice & Quinoa Salad with Pan Fried Tofu is so healthy and delicious. Packed full of red pepper, carrot, courgette & onion which is paired with crispy fried tofu, rice and quinoa, this tasty vegan dish is sure to be a hit! This recipe was inspired by a Savoury Rice Salad in my much…
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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 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 from my memory (apart…
Spicy Bacon & Baked Bean Casserole
Spicy Bacon & Baked Bean Casserole is a delicious, budget friendly dish. Perfect for a midweek family meal as so quick and easy to make! It’s funny how you can forget about recipes over the years and this is one of those which my mum always used to make which I had completely forgotten about…
Turkey Chilli with Baked Beans
A fabulously tasty Turkey Chilli with Baked Beans made with turkey breast mince – so delicious and a great alternative to beef! Turkey Chilli with Baked Beans A while ago I ran around my neighbourhood in a frantic search for a can of kidney beans as I was developing a Chilli Pancake Stack and had…
Slow Cooked Pulled Lamb with White Wine & Root Vegetables
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…
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…
Ham, Cheese and Sweetcorn Turnovers – a great way to use up leftover gammon!
These delicious Ham, Cheese & Sweetcorn Turnovers (pasties) are the perfect way to use up a joint of gammon. Using a whole sheet of puff pastry there is zero waste and they’re so easy to make! I love making my own joint of glazed gammon as it’s such an economical way of making several meals…
Croquiches – a cross between Croque Monsieur & Quiche!
Croquiches are a cross between a Croque Monsieur and a Quiche. These mini quiches have a bread crust instead of a pastry crust and are perfect for picnics! Today I’m bringing you Croquiches – aka picnic quiches! Did you know it’s National Picnic Week between 17 – 23 June? Well nor did I until I…
Coleslaw
I really wasn’t sure about blogging this as perhaps everyone knows how to make coleslaw. So maybe this post is more about reminding you how easy and cheap it is to make and far tastier than the stuff you can buy in the supermarket. There seem to be two types available, the one where the…
Leftover Winter Vegetable Soup
I made this Leftover Winter Vegetable Soup just before Christmas as I’d made a glazed gammon joint and therefore had lovely gammon stock and vegetables left over from it. I was also very aware that like most Brits I’d over bought on the sprout front and had a bag I needed to use up before…