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Apr 14

Recipe - Ovenbaked Meatballs with Tomato Sauce

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Apr 07

Recipe - Mince, Carrot, Tomato and Chickpea Soup

Here we go again. Too tired to be adventurous and too stubborn to buy a takeaway. This is the kind of dinner I cobble together when I'm in that frame of mind. Yet again I used up various bits and pieces that I already had in the cupboards or the fr (read full article)

Mar 31

Recipe - Chicken, Bacon and Avacado Quesadillas

Quesadillas are one of my favourite dishes. Not only is it quick and easy to cook, they are also one of the most freestyle-able dishes that I know of. It is not really rocket surgery to make quesadillas but it is hard to run out of ideas and combin (read full article)

Mar 28

Recipe - Simple Tuna and Tomato Sauce with Pasta

As promised, here's the follow up to the last post - using up the last of the tomato sauce I made. If you found this post from a search engine or similar, here is the original post. Also, I did choose to add the base recipe to this post too, just (read full article)

Mar 25

Recipe - Cod, Tomato and Potato Mash Pie

This recipe is one I made up just to use some stuff that was in my cupboards, in the freezer and so on. There is always the odd vegetable around that is threatening to go really bad, there is that Unidentified Frozen Object in the freezer compartme (read full article)

Mar 22

Recipe - Potato Soup with Cheese and a kick

This soup is fairly quick to make and I find it quite filling. It is versatile too. You can either serve big portions of it as a winter filler meal or you can go for a daintier approach and serve it as a starter. I can't really think of more to sa (read full article)

Mar 17

Recipe - Sandwich with Pork and Crispy and Tangy Slaw

Yet again a recipe which is fairly quick to cook. The only thing that takes a little time is marinading the pork and slaw. If you prepare the marinade the night before you can have this sandwich in a very short time after getting home. I'm not real (read full article)

Mar 14

Recipe - Smoky Oven-cooked Pork Ribs

Given the the weather and the current lack of a barbecue of my own this is the only way I can get some barbecued ribs for dinner at home. I'm cheating quite heavily by using the liquid smoke but the end result clearly justifies the means. The ribs (read full article)

Mar 11

Recipe - Prawn Cakes

I have always been a big fan of various fish and shellfish cakes but this was actually the first time I tried my hand at making prawn cakes. Normally when I make fish cakes I would use mashed potatoes as a base/binder but for these prawn cakes I us (read full article)

Mar 08

Recipe - Pork Schnitzel with Lemon and Parsley butter

Schnitzels have always been a big favourite of mine, I just don't cook them often enough. To remedy that I made myself some schnitzely goodness the other night. If you got the base recipe you can make schnitzels out of quite a lot of different mea (read full article)

Mar 03

Recipe - Sports Pies

Yes I know, this recipe has got a bit of a corny name. The reason for that is that I was asked if I could come up with a recipe for Lurpak during the National Pie Week so I thought I'd come up with a bit different name to stand out. The name comes (read full article)

Feb 23

Recipe - Raspberry and Coconut slice

  The baking madness continues... I'm sure that my colleagues love this sudden foray into baking since they're the ones who get to sample the goods. The thing I would like to know is how you readers feel about it? I'm still so new to it that I (read full article)

Feb 19

Recipe - Very Simple Bread

If you have read this blog for some time you have probably noticed that I very rarely, if ever, post anything that is even slightly related to baking. That might change now. Followers on Twitter should have seen some posts about my latest kitchen to (read full article)

Feb 16

Recipe - Chicken breast wrapped in Pancetta with Sage

To be honest, I think this is one of the tastiest dishes that I have cooked for a long time. Normally you run the risk of ending up with a dry chicken breast but not when you cook it this way. The pancetta takes the hit from the heat whilst the ch (read full article)

Feb 09

Recipe - Maple Syrup roast Crown of Duck

The other day when I was walking around in the supermarket I noticed that they had a special on Crown of Duck. Not really knowing what that was I thought I'd give it a go. It turns out that a Crown of Duck is basically a duck someone stolen the leg (read full article)

Feb 04

Recipe, Smoked Chicken, Prawn and Avacado Salad

A couple of Sundays ago we went to the Beetle & Wedge for a very enjoyable Sunday lunch. It was the first time I went there but I will make sure to come back again. I can only imagine how great the place would be in Summer, being that close to t (read full article)

Feb 01

Recipe - Low and Slow Game Casserole

I'm quite happy to see more and more interesting and unusual cuts of meat in my local Waitrose. It seems that they are adding more game to their shelves as well, something I think is really good. The other day they had a bit of a discount on Game C (read full article)

Jan 29

Recipe - Chicken breasts with onions, carrots and jalapenos

Regular readers of this blog have probably already figured out that I cook an awful lot of chicken breasts. I really like their versatility and how easy they are to cook. There are almost no end to the different dishes you can get out of them.I'm afr (read full article)

Jan 26

Recipe - Cold Potato and Bockwurst Salad

New potatoes has always been one of my big favourites, especially if they are boiled the Swedish way with lots of dill. Once cooked I normally manage to eat a couple before they even make it to a plate. If there are some left over I quite often nibbl (read full article)

Jan 23

Recipe - Fragrant Salmon served with a crispy salad and mini naans

I call this fragrant salmon since the spices, especially the coriander seeds, makes the entire kitchen smell so good while you're cooking.Salmon is one of my all time favourites. Not only is it very tasty, it is also very versatile and fairly quick t (read full article)

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