Easy Pork Tenderloin Recipe with Cream and White Wine Sauce Pork paired with apple and sage is a classic combination that takes me back to childhood roast dinners. The apple helps offset the sweetness of the pork and sage adds a delicious vegetal note to this dish. If you are counting calories, it’s quite possible […]
Venison Sausage Pasta
Venison Sausage Pasta Recipe – a spicy solution to the solo sausage dilemma. Sausages tend to come in packs of 4 or 6. If you are me and cook mostly for yourself or one other person, that can mean three or four days of sausages and chips. Or far too much toad in the hole. […]
Spiced Beef Casserole with Guinness and Orange
Spiced Beef and Guinness Casserole with Orange. It’s winter. And I have a brand new slow cooker thanks to the lovely people at Crock-UK. I’ve been dying to try it out and the other day I christened it using one of my family’s favourite recipes, a warming Spiced Beef and Guinness Casserole with orange. I’ve […]
Roast Partridge with Pear and Thyme
Roast Partridge with Pear and Thyme. We’ve spent the last 5 months visiting various blogs throughout the UK who have been championing their own local produce and cuisine. Literally from Lands-End with Choclette from Tin and Thyme to John o Groats, with Janice at Farmers Girl Kitchen. During that time, you’ve all risen to the […]
Simple Summer Food from Eating Well Everyday
Salmon and Goats Cheese Omelette – a review of Eating Well Everyday: I tend to run shy of chef recipe books – I generally find the recipes are too complicated for everyday and too high risk for entertaining. But Eating Well Everyday by Peter Gordon caught my eye – and, breaking my own rule, I was delighted […]
Grilled Mackerel with Fennel and Caraway seeds
Grilled Mackerel. My attempt at a healthy supper after the indulgences of the last few weeks was to buy some fresh Mackerel and to grill it rather than pan fry. Mackerel is an oily fish and works very well without the addition of any extra oil or fat – in fact you can see some […]
Simple Mushroom Goulash
Perfect Comfort Food for a Cold Weather Vegetarian – Mushroom Goulash: It’s getting very wintery, instead of craving salads at lunchtime I want something warming like this spicy and simple mushroom goulash! This is a very easy vegetarian version of beef goulash that I made a few years ago. The original version didn’t have celery […]
Lemon and Yoghurt Scone Recipe
It’s a long time since I tried making scones. I can remember making batches of the things when I was in my teens because my mum, as doctor’s wife in a small town, was ‘volunteered’ to cater for the local tennis tournament each year (apparently the doctor’s wife ALWAYS did the catering!). It sounds trivial […]
Peppered smoked mackerel with dill pollen
Dill Pollen and Smoked Mackerel – a Simple Fusion of Flavour: I made this lunch dish to showcase two ingredients. Some lovely smoked peppered mackerel from John at Delish Fish and Dill Pollen sent to me by David at Global Harvest. I wanted a quick and easy lunch dish but thought it would be fun […]
Simple Ceviche
An easy ceviche recipe: This is an easy way to make something quite special. Ceviche is something you could make for a light meal, or serve as a starter. I made mine with monkfish because it is what I had in the fridge but I’ve eaten it made with scallops and I’ve seen recipes for […]