Cheesy Roast New Potatoes with Wild Garlic – This recipe is so easy to make and takes advantage of two seasonal stars of Spring, Jersey Royal potatoes and Wild Garlic. It’s made a little more decadent by the addition of cheese which melts over the roast potatoes – and who doesn’t love cheesy potatoes. with…
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Wellness & Flowers at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Wellness & Flowers at RHS Chelsea Flower Show – A virtual tour around the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, where I was just two days ago. Walk with me around this most fragrant and beautiful of British institutions, and enjoy my top three gardens, including the Viking Cruises Wellness Garden, which won a Gold Medal, as…
Smoked Cheese & Onion Straws
Smoked Cheese & Onion Straws – Made with excess Festive ingredients, such as puff pastry and smoked cheese from the cheese board, these are posh enough for cocktail nibbles as well as being perfect for the school lunch box, and, these tasty little smoked cheese numbers are easy to make and are loved by all…
Welsh Rarebit Cheese Spread
Welsh Rarebit Cheese Spread: A fabulous cheese spread that would make a wonderful gift for any serious food lover, made in under 2 minutes in the Vitamix Ascent, with all the traditional ingredients for a classic rarebit. Pot the cheese spread in covered jars and add a card with the serving suggestions. For Festive Gift…
Sausage, Cranberry, Red Onion & Walnut Stuffing
Sausage, Cranberry, Red Onion & Walnut Stuffing – A quick and easy stiffing made in the Vitamix® Ascent™ for hassle free and tasty Christmas or Festive entertaining. Upgrade your Christmas Flavours with the Vitamix® Ascent™ I’m officially in love, I have a new toy and I haven’t stopped playing with it since it arrived! I have a…
Devilishly Tasty Mini Toad-in-the-Holes
Devilishly Tasty Mini Toad-in-the-Holes, these mini “Toads” are perfect for Halloween or Bonfire parties, and are served with spicy tomato & chilli relish Seasonal Recipe using Shaws 1889 Devilish Tomato & Chilli Relish It’s that time of year again, the nights are drawing in and there’s a definite nip in the air early mornings and…
Toasted Veggie Club Sandwich
Toasted Veggie Club Sandwich – A delectable multi-layered club sandwich made with Camembert, Red Onion, Carrot, Tomato, Fresh Basil and Sacla’ Roasted Pepper Pesto with Cream Cheese. This is a big sarnie, and would make the perfect midweek family supper when served with a big bowl of fresh salad on the side. with Sacla’ Roasted…
Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy
Light and Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits with Southern Style Sausage Gravy – These fabulous Biscuits are perfect with creamy sausage gravy for breakfast & brunch or for Cast Iron Casseroles. Southern Style Breakfast & Brunch Recipes When is a Biscuit a Scone and a Cookie a Biscuit? Biscuit is a term used for a variety of…
Beer and Cheese Bread in a Crock
Beer and Cheese Bread in a Crock – Delicious “no knead” artisan style bread made in a cast iron crock, using a fabulous unfiltered rye IPA & Vintage Cheddar; the recipe is based on my ever popular “Our Daily Bread in a Crock – Weekly Make and Bake Rustic Bread” with Longhorn Unfiltered Rye IPA…
Guilt-Free Baked Doughnuts (Donuts)Three Ways!
Weight Watchers Friendly If truth be known, I’m more of a savoury person and I always gravitate to the sausage rolls and cheese straws on a buffet, but, I love a sweet treat now and then, and as an avid baker, cakes regularly make their way to our table! When it comes to doughnuts however,…
Oven Roasted Herb Crusted New Potatoes
with Cornish New Potatoes Today’s recipe for Oven Roasted Herb Crusted New Potatoes, is a real winner – using a seasonal star, Cornish New Potatoes; Cornish new potatoes are only in season from the middle of June until end of July, they are the first UK mainland crop of the year and signal the start of summer,…
21st Century Coronation Chicken
A fabulously easy and lighter version of the classic 1950’s Coronation Chicken, my quick recipe for 21st Century Coronation Chicken uses reduced fat mayonnaise, half fat crème frâiche and some amazing caramelised red onion chutney (and chunky mango chutney) from Shaws of Huddersfield with Shaws of Huddersfield Coronation Chicken is one of my favourite recipes,…
Updating a Classic! Bacon and Egg Caesar Salad
A Summer Supper Special Today’s post for Updating a Classic! Bacon and Egg Caesar Salad, is all about speed and a plethora of eggs! It was a hot late spring day, just a few weeks ago – I’d been writing some commissioned work since about 6am in the morning, and I could sense that it was time…
French Cheese and English Honey…….
……with Le Rustique How do you improve upon perfection? Well, I think I have the answer, today’s post is all about French Cheese and English Honey……and to improve upon the natural perfection of both ingredients, I’ve created three fabulous recipes with the French brand, Le Rustique, using English honey for the perfect culinary entente cordiale! Today’s recipes use…
Potato Salad with SPAM®
SPAM® Appreciation Week & a Giveaway There’s a lot of food snobbery about tinned (canned) meat, and people can get quite sniffy about it; but, most tinned meats are usually much higher in meat content than ready meals and fast food, and I think they get a bad rap. SPAM® is one such tinned meat that…
