Five Spice Duck Breast with a Tamarind Sauce Recipe

This is one of my favourite asian dishes. Duck breast and five spice work so well together but it has to have a crispy skin. We were having rice with dinner so I thought a sauce would be nice and I found a similar recipe on the gressingham website, it tasted really yummy. It is…

One Pot Sausage and Lentil Stew Recipe

So Paulie went on a sausage making course and came home with his handiwork. He made french and english sausages as well as salami. I am going to make our own chorizo and will post the recipe once I have done it. To make a change from sausage and mash we thought we would go…

Warming Roasted Squash and Chorizo Soup Recipe

I love soup and I think squash works so well as when it is roasted it releases a lovely sweet flavour. Chorizo is another fridge staple in our house and when mixed in this soup you get a smoky slightly spicy depth of flavour. There isn’t much not to like about this if you enjoy…

Chickpea, Bulgar Wheat and Quinoa Salad with a Tahini Dressing Recipe

This is a great lunch box recipe. The flavours taste middle eastern and it is really filling. I love tahini and it is nice to have it in someting other than hummus. You get pepper notes from the rocket, nuttiness from the chickpea’s, Bulgar and Quinoa, sweetness from the tomato and sultana’s and it is…

Roast Merguez and Swiss Chard Stuffed Lamb Shoulder Recipe

Roast is one of my favourite dinners and I love a lamb roast. We had a boneless shoulder from our butchers we thought we would stuff it. I wanted to stuff it with something that doubled up as side dish and this was perfect. It is half stuffing half vegetable side with all the delicious…

Homemade Fresh Sage Pasta Recipe

I saw a programme a few years a go which showed you how to flavour pasta. One of the recipe’s was for window pane pasta. You basically make you pasta as normal then once you have rolled out the strips you place herbs on them cover with more pasta and then put it through the…