cheese

Cauliflower Cheese with Black Pudding and a Chestnut and Sage topping

This is my go to comfort dinner, I love cauliflower cheese and treat as a meal on its own tho I do like a gammon steak with it sometimes to. I pimped it up by adding some black pudding and some chestnuts and sage to the breadcrumbs. Its just so tasty! If you don’t like…

Prawn and Pea Gratin with a Parsley Cheese Sauce and Lemon Breadcrumbs

So this is one of my favourite dinners when my husband is away as he hates parsley sauce but I love it! I grew up with the boil in the bag fish and parsley sauce (or maybe not fish as the shape was rather funky!) This is really nice with smoked haddock as well or…

English Ploughman’s Salad

So I found out today that the first piccalilli recipe dates back to 1694 by Lady Anne Blencowe’s in England. Just shows how good it is as it a firm favourite still. If you grown your own veg its an awesome way to preserve them as it is so versatile. As I was trying to…

Crustless Courgette, Cheese and Herb Quiche

I love making crustless quiches (its also a secret way to get eggs in my hubby!). You don’t need pastry and can literally chuck in anything you have knocking about. I used manouri cheese as that’s what I had but any cheese with work, feta, cheddar or even grated halloumi. I think it does need…

Skinny Baked Courgette Mac n Cheese

So I am getting creative using up my courgettes as they are bang in season. I then had a faint memory or a mac n cheese that was in one of my magazines so thought id give it a bash. It was delicious! The courgettes adds a bit of freshness. It also takes it to…

Cheesy Indian Beans on Toast

I love baked beans (by that brand) and I love curry sauce. I decided to mix the 2 together it was so delicious. To make it even sexier I added on cheese and grilled it. This had everything in one bite. Ingredients (serves 2) Directions

Venison and Black Pudding Burgers

I love venison and I love black pudding so this burger was born. As venison is so lean it needs some kind of fat added to it so I used the spiced black pudding. Juniper is a match made in heaven for venison it reminds me of a fragrant pepper. I also added extra pepper…

Herby Sausage Pizza

So I’m trying to empty the freezer and had some sausage meat and black pudding hanging around. I love black pudding and decided it would be nice on a pizza, you get pepperoni right, this is just our version. It was so yummy I did add some extra oregano as I have recently been to…

Tuna and Sweetcorn Potato Skins

I love jacket potato as you can literally put anything on them. I love a certain brand of baked beans with cheese on top. (If they are good enough for our queen consort Camilla, they are good enough for me 😉) My hubby Paulie doesn’t like beans so I had to try something else. Tuna,…

Black Pepper Watermelon and Lentil Salad with Grilled Manouri Cheese

This salad screams summer. Watermelon is delicious at the moment and it takes on black pepper perfectly. It’s a kind of sweet and sour salad with the balsamic vinegar, sweet melon and Creamy cheese. I started off safe with Greek cheese by sticking to the popular cheeses such as feta and halloumi. It’s amazing how…

Goat’s Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast Wrapped in Parma Ham on Courgettes and Tomatoes

This is a brilliant one dish dinner and is easy to prepare. It really makes use of seasonal produce and the juices ooze over the courgettes and tomatoes making them totally delicious. It’s also great for when you have guests over too as it looks after itself and it’s healthy, so you can make a…

Florentine Style Baked Cod

This is quite an old school recipe but I had it in Egypt of all places and I forgot how nice it was. I used cod in my recipe but any meaty fish will be fine. I put a spin on it by using parsley sauce, I made a batch as I had a bag…

Ploughman’s Salad with Croutons and a Piccalilli Dressing

Being british I love a good ploughman’s with a dollop of piccalilli or pickle. To cut down the calories I thought I would try it as a salad oh my word it is delicious I love the added crunch from the lettuce and cucumbers and the sweetness from the peas. The cheese added a welcome…

Baked Sweet Potato with Avocado Smash and Cheese Topping

I love a jacket potato for lunch sometimes and my favourite is sweet potato. I saw a variation of this in a Waitrose magazine but dot all the ingredients for a fraction of the price from Lidl. In my opinion Lidl’s cheeses and charcuterie are the best and over half the price. They tend to…

Baked Stuffed Chicken Wrapped in Prosciutto with Courgettes and Tomatoes

This is really summer on a plate. I’ve had a glut of courgettes a food tomatoes which is fantastic as last year I literally only had one courgette. I tried yellow this year and they have been a massive success, the leaves were so big that I’ve had to cut some off. This is perfect…