I love cauliflower cheese as it is mid-week I didn’t want a heavy version so we used skimmed milk and a less amount but stronger cheese in the sauce. I love the crunchy topping and the black pudding adds so much flavour with it’s delicious spices. This is a great mid-week bowl of comfort food….
Month: January 2017
Roasted Vegetables and Goat’s Cheese Salad with a Herb Dressing Recipe
So I’m back from Devon so gone are the pasties and cream teas. So I’m starting the week off at work with this yummy salad. You can use whatever vegetables you have left over from the weekend. The goats cheese adds little creamy mouthfuls and the herby dressing lifts and freshens up the salad. Ingredients…
Pot Roast Beef Brisket with a Caramilised Onion Gravy Recipe
This melted in our mouth’s. This dinner was tasty, the onion gravy added a lovely sweetness and the smells from the kitchen were divine. This is ideal if you fancy a cheaper dinner that has all the traits of a yummy beef roast. Recipe adapted from BBC Food. Ingredients (serves 2 use 1kg for 4)…
Yakatori Chicken on a Vegetable Salad with a Palm Sugar, Chilli and Lime Dressing Recipe
Sometimes I really fancy a fresh and zingy salad. I tend to look towards asia for inspiration. I was in the supermarket and saw a jar of yakitori so thought I would give it a go, it was delicious the flavours were so tasty and it gave the chicken really nice crispy bits. The cornflour…
Asian Pork, Coconut and Pineapple Curry Recipe
So I saw Rick Stein make this on Saturday Kitchen and I thought it looked delicious and we had some pork shoulder in the freezer so we decided to give it a go. It was delicious, it tasted fresh and zingy, sort of like a sweet and sour. The pork was so tender and I…
Baked Zaatar Falafel’s with a Tahini Dip Recipe
So a friend in work mentioned she has za’atar on sweet potatoes so I thought I would get some to try. The flavour’s were really yummy and consist of sumac, sesame seeds, salt, dried thyme, oregano and majoram. I thought it would work perfectly in falafels and it did. This is a healthy, tasty and…
Healthy Veal Schnitzels with Sautéed Garam Masala Sweet Potatoes Recipe
This recipe is simple but very tasty. The meat was so tender and juicy. The sweet potato was so comforting with nice little crispy bits. I love adding the garam masala sprinkled over the top it just gives it that extra tastiness. If you are after a quick tasty healthy dinner then this is perfect….
Halloumi on Roasted Leek Couscous with a Harissa Dressing Recipe
I love experimenting with new flavours and ingredients from around the world. We had some leeks left over in the fridge so I thought they would be nice roasted and added to a salad. We didn’t have any salad leaves so I raided the cupboard and found cous cous, dried cranberries and flaked almond’s so…
Thyme Roasted Pork Fillet with a Garam Masala, Shallot and Cider Sauce Recipe
So now we have made our own garam masala powder I think I might have a few posts including it! This was a yummy dinner, perfect for mid week as it is easy, quick and really tasty. I got this recipe from The foodie and the fix website. I think cider goes so well with…
Winter Vegetable and Bean Minestrone Soup Recipe
This soup is packed full of goodness. Paulie and I are full of cold at the moment and I wanted something over the weekend that would help us fight it off. This has so many Superfoods that are really rich in vitamins. It tasted really yummy too and is really filling. If you want a…
DIY Garam Masala Powder Recipe
This really blew my mind. I don’t know why I haven’t tried to make my own before. We used to buy garam masala from the supermarket, the smell and taste is unbelievable. I didn’t realise what it is supposed to smell like until now as the one we were buying had a very light smell…
Pork Chops in a Miso and Whisky Sauce Recipe
So it’s my good staple mid week dinner ingredient, the pork chop. Miso is my new ingredient I have been testing out recently and it worked really well in this sauce. It is salty and sweet with depth of flavour added by the whiskey. As you know if you follow my blog Paulie and I…
Black Pudding, Blue Cheese, Apple and Walnut Salad with a Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe
Black pudding is like marmite and I love marmite and I also love black pudding. I have wanted to try it in a salad for so long now. It worked really well. You get a big hit of flavour from the spiced black pudding, crunch from the walnuts, sharpness from the balsamic vinegar and it…
Chicken, Tofu, Fennel and Sugar Snap Pea Stir Fry in a Black Bean Sauce Recipe
So I love a stir fry and it is good for helping you cut out the carbs. As you will see from my recent post’s my new ingredients are miso and tofu. In this recipe we used the tofu. I think my 2 favourite stir fry sauces are oyster sauce and this black bean sauce….
Brussel Sprout, Tofu and Udon Noodle Salad with a Miso Dressing Recipe
Miso has been on my radar for a while. Luckily Paulie had a meeting which was a near a large chinese supermarket so I sent him off with a list of asian goodies and white miso paste was one of them. When I first tasted it I thought wow that packs a salty punch but…