Skate Wings Baked in a Lemon, Olive Oil and Caper Sauce Recipe

This is a great Meatless Monday Supper, particularly as it has been beautifully sunny in September so far. It’s not the prettiest dish but is simple, quick and tasty. You can add tomatoes and fresh herbs at the caper stage if you want more flavour. Skate is a lovely fish it is meaty and not…

Easy Chilli and Lime Crab Salad Recipe

Lucky for us in the UK our summer weather is hanging on, what could be nicer than a very quick, easy, light crab salad which doesn’t lack in flavour, served with a nice glass (or two) of cold wine, sat in the garden, heaven for me! This salad would be great for work or as…

Spauly’s Ultimate Sausage Roll Recipe

This recipe was made up by myself and Paulie. We have an amazing butcher called Roger from Busters Butchers, he supplied us with some amazing sausage meat and we were going out for the day so I thought I would make some ‘posh’ sausage rolls using parma ham. For lunch the day before we were…

Divine Condensed Milk Fudge Recipe – No Thermometer Needed

As I’m from Torquay in Devon fudge is very close to my heart along with cream teas! I know everyone who enjoys cooking and baking will have recipes they make and you ask yourself why on earth haven’t I made this before. This is one of those recipes and this fudge is stunning, me and…

Treat Night – Easy Amaretto Apricot Meringue Roulade Recipe

This is my first attempt at meringue and I was so pleased with the result. Paulie bought me a jar of amaretto soaked apricots and that was back in March and I really wanted to use them in a special way and not just with ice cream. This worked a treat the meringue was crunchy…

Traditional Baked Venison Biryani Recipe

I have wanted to make our own biryani for ages. I always hate the non authentic vegetable curry on the side biryani dishes you get from indian restaurants. This cooks for hours and uses the traditional pastry lid to bake in the oven. You get beautiful layers of rice and curry. I saw venison being…

Meatless Meze Recipes – Spicy Chickpea Falafel’s

We have been having lovely weather in the UK at the moment, so if it’s sunny and over 20 degree’s Paulie and I hit the beach. Last time I used up some leftover turkey and made some delicious Picnic Perfect Left Over Turkey or Chicken, Pancetta, Mushroom and Leek Puff Pastry Parcels Recipe. I am…

Whole Duck Braised in Orange Juice and Star Anise Recipe

We absolutely love this Rick Stein recipe, the duck comes out so tender and you get a gorgeous fragrant sweet and sour sauce. We serve ours with rice so we can soak up all those wonderful flavour’s. The kitchen smell’s gorgeous as this cooks too, it reminds me a little of Bali. This dish also…

Saturday Night Cocktail? Gin Fizz Recipe

So Paulie and I love a cocktail when in London or on holiday. When we were in St Lucia we had a gin cocktail in Beau Vallon and we replicated it at home one Saturday night so I thought I would share it and start a cocktail section on my blog. This is so refreshing…

Juicy Ginger Beer Glazed Gammon Recipe

This was truly the best ham I ever eaten. It was so moist and the sticky glaze was delicious. I don’t like ingredients in coca cola but understand it’s tenderising quality so I wanted to find a more natural alternative and came across rosalilium’s recipe which used ginger beer. I love Ginger so thought what…