After a gloriously sunny weekend and a holiday coming up we are on our healthy mid-week kick again. I love feta as it is a low fat cheese but also has loads of flavour. The feta adds lovely creamy and salty notes to a salad. The roasted aubergine or eggplant was a revelation, I was…
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Chilli Con Carne with Baked Nacho’s and Melted Cheese Recipe
I love comfort food and dishes that satisfies you the night you eat it but also freeze’s down and tastes better second time round. Paulie’s chilli is one of those recipe’s. This served us for dinner last night, we have another portion for us both as well as a single portion if one of us…
Halibut and Jersey Royals with a Lemon and Caper Sauce Recipe
The weather was lovely yesterday, on these warm days we only fancy something light for dinner. We would have this with just vegetables but as it is jersey royal season we are making the most of these lovely earthy new potatoes. Crushing them with a fork in the sauce is delicious and to top it…
Baked Spicy Cauliflower and Pea Samosa’s with a Yoghurt Mint Dip Recipe
I was a little scared about trying to make my own samosa’s as they look so complicated and I still believe there is an art in the folding and how much filling to use. I was really proud of how mine turned out, not perfect but still a triangle shape, nice and crispy on the…
Weald Smokery Venison with a Home Pickled Fennel and Tomato Salad
Sometimes simple is best! If you fancy having a go at pickling vegetables at home this is bar far the best I have tried so far. The fennel releases it’s beautiful aniseed flavour and the orange zest, star anise and pickling liquid really makes it stand out, I could probably eat a of bowl of…
Homemade Lemon and Coriander Crab Cakes Recipe
I have been wanting to try and make these for ages, I keep seeing tinned crab in Waitrose and finally bought a tin and had a go. We were not disappointed, homemade crab cakes are so much lighter and flavoursome as you can add ingredients to your own taste and they were so easy to…
Feta, Avocado and Rocket Salad with Lemon Dressing Recipe
Another tasty salad for lunch today from what we had the fridge. I love the saltiness of the feta, the creaminess of the avocado and the sharp hit of the lemon they all taste good in one bite. This took me 10 minutes to make and feta keeps in the fridge for ages so this…
Halloumi, Rocket and Pesto Butter Bean Salad Recipe
If you have read any of my previous post’s you will know that I made a batch of wild garlic pesto (recipe). Paulie and I have been finding ways to incorporate into our meals such as spreading it on cod with breadcrumbs (recipe), adding it to potato to make pesto gnocchi (recipe) or just having…
Crevettes, Papaya, Avocado and Rocket Salad with a Lime, Chilli and Coriander Dressing Recipe
Bali and Asia is a special place for Paulie and I. We fell in love with Bali a few years ago and ended up getting married there last year as we loved the country, people, culture and food. I love their fresh salads which are salty, sour , spicy and sweet. Papaya and mango are…
Ginger, Garlic and Spice Pickled Carrots Recipe
We love pickling vegetables for our salad’s as it adds so much flavour and keeps so well. This weekend we had a load of carrots left over from a bag we bought so thought we would try them pickled, as the fennel and cauliflower were so successful. I can never believe how simple and cheap…
Kung Pao King Prawns served with Noodles Recipe
I’m confused, is Kung Po and Kung Pao the same thing? If you can help please do! So this dish was inspired by another blogger fitness675 and it is called Kung Pao, I have ordered Kung Po from my chinese and it is completely different as it is in a sweet and sour sauce. This…
Homemade Beef Ragu and Spaghetti Recipe
I love dried porcini mushrooms and one of my favourite Paulie dinner’s which uses them is his beef or veal ragu. This was a joint effort as I made the pasta and he made the ragu and both elements were as yummy as one another. I love the rich tomato sauce which soaks up the…
Homemade Pasta Dough 2 Different Recipes and Techniques
So I have my usual way of making pasta 1 egg per 100g of flour but Paulie got The Greedy Italians book for his birthday, in the book Carluccio has a pasta recipe which incorporates semolina flour into the dough itself. I usually only use semolina on a tray to keep the strands separated so…
Jersey Royals, Tuna and Rocket with Lemon, Caper and Marjoram Dressing Recipe
Jersey Royals are my favourite new potato of all time. It is only the start of the season and Paulie managed to get me a bag of decent sized Jersey Royals. We have them for dinner the other night and there were a few left over so I thought I would use them up in…
Weald Smokery Salmon, Home Pickled Fennel, Watercress and Caper Salad
I love spring and summer as the salads for lunch are back! Gone are the hearty soups, it’s light fresh and healthy from now onwards, with some indulgences of course! At the weekend with had a really nice cream tea and as I am from Devon (closer to Cornwall side) I am extremely fussy about…
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