Fish on Friday: Pan-Fried Garlic and Peppered Hake Fillets Recipe From boat to plate in under a week is how I like my fish, no thousands of miles of being frozen in blocks on container ships, from the Far East or Bangladesh, but into my frying pan within a few days of being caught in the…
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A 5:2 Fast Day Diet Winter Meal Plan with Low Calorie Highland Stew Recipe
A 5:2 Fast Day Diet Winter Meal Plan with Low Calorie Highland Stew Recipe I know what you all thinking, it’s all been quiet on the 5:2 diet front lately; well, what with doing my Wartime Kitchen and preparing for Christmas, I have not had time to post any meal plans, or indeed any of…
Kenwood Christmas Menu: “All the Trimmings” Spiced Red Cabbage with Apples Recipe
Kenwood Christmas Menu: “All the Trimmings” Spiced Red Cabbage with Apples Recipe Day Three on the Advent Calendar: 3rd December: I can’t believe it is already the 3rd of December, and week three of the Kenwood Christmas Menu; this exciting challenge sees myself and four other food bloggers, Beth, Sian, Becs and Eliza, bake and…
Win a £50 Fish Voucher! Fresh Scottish Fish and Festive Fish Tagine Recipe
Win a £50 Fish Voucher! Fresh Scottish Fish and Festive Fish Tagine Recipe Regular readers will know that I am an avid supporter of British products and ingredients, as well as traditional British feasts and festivals, and FISH! I am proud to be part of the Fish Fanatics scheme, which is run by Fish is the Dish on behalf…
Elegant Fish on Friday: Easy Smoked Haddock au Gratin Recipe
Elegant Fish on Friday: Easy Smoked Haddock au Gratin Recipe It’s Friday and that can only mean one thing, my weekly Fish on Friday post, and a NEW and very easy recipe, Easy Smoked Haddock and Salmon au Gratin – an elegant and comforting meal that is made with TOP quality Scottish smoked haddock, with thanks to John…
Lazy Blue and White Lunch: Garlic Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables Recipe
Lazy Blue and White Lunch: Garlic Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables Recipe Who can resist a roast chicken for Sunday lunch – a lovely free-range organic bird slowly roasting, releasing its aromatic fragrance throughout the house, sizzling quietly away in the oven whilst a trip to pub is arranged or maybe a brisk walk with…
Festive Fish on Friday: Clementine and Honey Roast Salmon Salad with Wasabi Dressing Recipe
Festive Fish on Friday: Clementine and Honey Roast Salmon Salad with Wasabi Dressing Recipe My Fish on Friday post today is a little festive – I am starting to think of easy and yet spectacular ways to serve salads as part of the Christmas and New Year buffet table, as well as for light, tasty…
Weekly Meal Plan and a Hearty Family Supper Recipe: Sausage and Apple Casserole in Cider
Weekly Meal Plan and a Hearty Family Supper Recipe: Sausage and Apple Casserole in Cider It’s been a funny week, as you all know I was living off WW2 rations last week and I have found it quite hard to get back into the swing of things since then! I enjoyed my week in the Wartime…
Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea
Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea High Flight (John Gillespie Magee, Jr.) Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things You have not dreamed…
The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe It was my intention to cook a meal in a Hay Box at sometime in my wartime kitchen week; a hay box was a simple way to continue cooking a meal whilst you were out, or in order to save energy. The casserole, soup…
The Wartime Kitchen and Day Five – Ration Book Fish on Friday: Devilled Fish Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and Day Five – Ration Book Fish on Friday: Devilled Fish Recipe Today is day five of my wartime ration book cooking challenge, and it’s Friday, which means it has to be fish on Friday. We may not all follow the traditional fish on Friday menu plan nowadays, such a shame I think, but…
The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe – Day four of my living off wartime rations, and I am hankering after a little meat in my diet, curiously enough, as I am not a huge meat-eater normally. I still have my bacon and meat rations left, as well as my cheese…
A Seasonal Slow Sunday Supper: Aromatic Beef and Quince Tagine with Pomegranate
A Seasonal Slow Sunday Supper: Aromatic Beef and Quince Tagine with Pomegranate The season continues to move on with misty mornings and crisp frosty evenings, stars bright and the sky filled with fireworks, as Bonfire Night approaches on the 5th November. Meals are now taken by roaring fires and casseroles, daubes, stews, soups and…
Milk Fadge: Emergency Bread (No Yeast) Recipe
This Milk Fadge Bread recipe makes a lovely textured bread with no yeast needed. It slices well once it is cold, making it perfect for sandwiches and toast. Milk Fadge – No-Yeast Bread Even with a well stocked store cupboard like mine (keep scrolling for my list), I can be let down. So when I…
Family Fish and Pasta on Friday: Creamy Salmon and Orange Pasta with Mixed Herbs Recipe
Family Fish and Pasta on Friday: Creamy Salmon and Orange Pasta with Mixed Herbs Recipe Christmas arrived early the other day, a fabulous box of fresh fish arrived, as you may remember from last week’s Fish on Friday post – Easy Peasy Fish on Friday Recipe: Family Friendly Fabulous Fish Pie, and along with my fish box…
