This dish was really tasty. I really like Tom Kerridge as a chef and he really didn’t disappoint with this recipe. The sweet meaty monkfish works so well with the smoky aubergine and the salty spiced sauce. I enjoyed every mouthful and would definitely make this again. One of our favourite dishes is the lemon…
Prawn Noodle Salad with a Sweet Chilli Dressing Recipe
This is a great fresh, zingy, tasty salad. I love how fresh and healthy asian salads are. You can really use whatever you have in the fridge, carrots, cabbage, cucumbers and onions etc. I’m not a fan of raw onion in a salad as it repeats on me a bit so I use radish instead….
Pheasant and Sweet Potato Hash with Pickled Red Cabbage Recipe
So we went to river cottage cafe a few weeks ago and Paulie had a pheasant hash there which tasted delicious. I was watching Saturday kitchen best bites and saw James Atherton poach a crown of pheasant before roasting it to keep it moist. What a great idea for both! So this recipe was born…
Simple Left Over Roast Beef, Lentil and Watercress Salad with a Mustard and Thyme Dressing Recipe
Got some left over beef or chicken from the weekend? This salad is simple but really tasty. All the flavours work well together, tasty beef, earthy lentils, fiery watercress all brought together from a sharp slightly sweet dressing. This is really easy to put together once you have cooked the lentils. Delicious! Ingredients (serves 2)…
Southern Baked Chicken and Vegetable Salad Bowl with a Lime, Ginger and Chilli Dressing Recipe
So I made my own southern seasoning and wanted to try it out. This salad was so fresh, tasty and zingy I couldn’t get enough of it. This is also the first time I have tried South American black beans they were also delicious. I had mine in my lunchbox and it worked perfectly. Ingredients…
DIY Southern Seasoning Recipe
I like the flavour of KFC but I I’m not too keen on fried food. So I decided to have a go at my own seasoning. The flavour was delicious I used mine on chicken but you could add it to almost anything. It tastes so much better than shop bought southern seasoning as the…
Pan Fried Seabass on Celeriac and Parsnip Mash with a Burnt Butter and Caper Sauce Recipe
We love fish and seabass is one of my favourites. I haven’t used celeriac at home yet, I have had it in pubs as a puree so thought It would be nice with a piece of fish. The parsnip and celeriac really complement each other with sweetness and the mash is really smooth. As seabass…
Roasted and Pickled Golden Beetroot Salad Recipe
Trying to be efficient and save money we are going to the greengrocers once a week and the butcher and fishmongers once a month. It is working really well and pushes us to try new vegetables and recipes. When we went this week they had some gorgeous local golden beetroots. I have had lightly pickled…
Marinated Tofu Stir Fry with Swiss Chard, Mushrooms and Miso Sauce Recipe
I love a stir fry it is perfect for a quick weeknight dinner. I only recently found miso and tofu and really love them both. I have found out in a short space of time that tofu tastes so much better if you marinate it first and what could be better than the lovely sweet,…
Tuna, Wild Rice, Sweetcorn and Soya Bean Salad with a light Mustard Dressing Recipe
This lunch worked really well in my lunchbox and it is an easy tasty satisfying salad. Tuna rice and beans go so well together and I love the salty hit from the capers. The mustard dressing lifts all of the flavours and gives a really nice background flavour. Ingredients (serves 2) 80g wild rice, cooked…
Healthier Baked Cauliflower Cheese with Black Pudding Recipe
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….
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…
