empire chicken with indian gravy and bombay roasties
What a triumph this is. Just when I was feeling a bit indifferent to Jamie Oliver’s Great Britain along comes this absolute belter. Jamie introduces this by saying most people when asked about their...
View Articleroast turkey with all the trimmings
Sometimes, blog posts I write are to spread the news of some great recipe I found. Other times it’s about crazy experiments. But the aim has always been to be a log of what I cooked, and that’s what...
View Articlesunday grill
…Instead of Sunday roast, geddit? Except it wasn’t roasted, and I ate it on a Wednesday. Simple, eh? Let me explain… George Foreman Grills are making a comeback, it seems. They passed me by the first...
View Articlebeetroot salad
An old chum of mine, Terry, has a running blog based in Australia. I haven’t the slightest interest in running but I am interested in recipes, so when he asked me to come up with a beetroot dish to...
View Articleosso buco
Osso buco… the classic veal dish, and yet I’d never cooked it. I had some gorgeous Dorset rose veal shank from Farmers Choice and I felt this had to be the way to show it off. I also had a copy of...
View Articlecold sesame noodles
In my most recent monthly roundup, looking at my favourite food posts of the last month, I highlighted Helen Graves’s cold sesame noodles as one I definitely wanted to try. It struck me as a perfect...
View Articlelemon chicken on crispy noodles
Not having money sucks. Worse still, not having money and really enjoying food sucks. The time you most notice this is when you’re a student. Most Wanted, the magazine for VoucherCodes.co.uk has asked...
View Articlechicken katsu curry
Whenever my son is offered a treat out to a restaurant, say for a birthday or good school report, before I’ve even finished the question he replies “Wagamama“. And he always orders the same thing:...
View Articlesimply sausage ragu
Here’s a dish perfect for this time of year, but still doesn’t feel like stodge-o-rama thanks to the amount of veg involved. The star ingredient is the sausage, a meaty banger from Simply Sausages. I...
View Articlesmokey BBQ beef hash
I think I’m due a badge: I’m the last person in the UK to never have eaten at Nando’s. If I walk past a branch around dinner or lunch there’s always a queue around the block. I’m not sure why. It...
View Articlebanh mi muffuleta
Give me an excuse to do a posh sandwich, and I'm there. Inspired by a recipe in a recent issue of the Jamie magazine, this recipe crosses the Vietnamese baguette with the New Orleans superbap. Truth be...
View Articlecrunchy summer salad
Sainsbury’s are wanting to inspire the nation to be more creative with their vegetables after seeing a massive upturn in sales of vegetables with Avocado (147%), asparagus spears (118%), broccoli...
View ArticleKellyBronze turkey rolls with winter slaw
I’ve been so, so lucky with this silly little blog. I’ve met all of my food heroes and worked with fantastic people, and eaten some great stuff. Actually. Not all of that is true. I’ve not met all of...
View Articleone tray roast chicken dinner
I love a roast dinner but I don’t love the mess you have to create to make it. With this one tray roast chicken dinner recipe everything is done in one baking tray, so you only have one thing to clean...
View Articlechristmas dinner pie
A Christmas dinner in a pie! What a novel idea. After seeing one on the shelves from Pukka Pies I thought it was worth looking into. Not content with dominating the Christmas music charts, YouTube...
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