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With pressure cooker fish, it doesn’t matter if it is frozen or fresh fillets, you are guaranteed delicious, tender and flaky result always. Serve with boiled baby potatoes, parsley sauce, and steamed veggies. Why this instant pot frozen fish is good You only need a few ingredients to make this Instant pot pressure cooker fish.This recipe is easy and quick, you can add any spices and herbs of choice, although I have kept this simple as I served it some homemade parsley sauce....

This is a pan fried fish recipe so is best made with thin fish fillets. Use your fish of choice – anything suitable for cooking on the stove! Fish with Salsa The first official RecipeTin LITE recipe!!! Recipes that fall into this category are healthy meals that are less than 500 calories for the complete meal. The majority of the dinner meals I share are less than 500 calories a serving but that’s usually excluding the sides like rice or bread that it is served with....

Red lentils cooked down until sweet and creamy, blended together with onion, peppers, carrots and stock, then finished off with cheddar cheese – stirred in until melty and perfect. This is a great soup for making in bulk and then taking to work. It freezes and re-heats really well, so I usually split it into portions for a lunch that Chris can grab and take out with him. If you happen to be eating this at home though, the added topping of crunchy wholemeal pita crisps is a great (and less calorific) alternative to that big chunk of bread....

Plus, tales of this city girls’ adventures on a MANGO FARM!!! On a scale of 1 to 10, this rates a 12 15: plucking a golden ripe mango off a tree then 10 minutes later, sipping on Mango Daiquiris…. HOW COOL IS THAT??😎 So as you probably guessed, no this didn’t happen in my own backyard. It was at the Groves Tropical Fruit Farm in country Queensland (Yeppoon, 1 hour from Rockhampton) which I visited to immerse myself in the excitement of Mango Harvesting!...

Plus, my very simple tips for cooking salmon on the BBQ – no more burnt salmon, and how to stop salmon from sticking to the grill! Grilled Salmon I feel like a lot of people are intimidated at the thought of cooking salmon on the BBQ. Fear of it sticking to the grill, of flaking into bits when handling it. Or of the sugar in marinades causing it to burn into a black bitter mess....

Wikipedia says “A Pilaf is a dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth.” That’s exactly what this dish is. Lamb mince and spinach cooked with rice seasoned with Middle Eastern spices. Hence it’s name – Middle Eastern Lamb and Lentil Rice Pilaf. I’ve repeatedly professed my love for Middle Eastern food. It’s the spices that does it for me. I find the smell and flavour of Middle Eastern spices irresistible....

I know you came here for granola bars, but I just need to get this out. We surprised the kids with a trip to Disney World!! What a week we’ve had! It was totally unplanned. Chris and I were in the office, procrastinating over work and feeling a little bored a couple of weeks ago. For some reason we started talking holidays, and before we knew it, we’d used up all of our savings and booked Disney....

I can see why it’s one of the most popular dishes on the Panda Express menu! Being in the UK, we don’t actually have Panda Express, and you rarely see Orange Chicken featured on the menus of our Chinese restaurants. I remember it well from our US holidays though and I felt I had to recreate it at home. After lots of testing, I’ve finally perfected the recipe! So until Panda Express makes it over the water (and probably even after it it does!...

You’ll love how these are crispy yet juicy, savoury and salty…. but the crowning glory is how the topping ends up like crunchy parmesan wafers!!! SUPER SPEEDY ROASTED GREEN BEANS These roasted green beans are so speedy to prepare and so darn tasty, you’ll be picking at them straight off the pan! This is how this recipe goes down: Trim the ends of the green beans (see video for the way I do this); Pile on tray drizzle with oil, scatter with garlic, salt & pepper, toss; Line up on tray, squishing together....

Simply rub the meat with olive oil and spices, roast it in a 500°F oven to crisp up the outside, then finish cooking it in a moderate 350°F oven. Perfection! This recipe is absolutely perfect for special occasions. It’s so tender and buttery! Another great one is, of course, ribeye roast. And tri-tip roast is tougher and inexpensive but wonderfully flavorful. The simple method of cooking the meat in a very hot oven, then finishing it in a moderate oven, produces tender, juicy, and very flavorful roast....

It’s an inexpensive cut that produces impressive results (just make sure to slice it across the grain). Leftovers keep well for several days and can be enjoyed cold or reheated. There’s something about roasting a large piece of meat, then carving it at the table. It certainly makes for festive holiday dinners - ribeye roast and tenderloin roast are big favorites. However, they are also expensive. For everyday meals, I still like to cook a large roast, but I opt for cheaper cuts....

The yellow colour of this rice is so bright that I find it almost impossible to photograph!You can see I’ve gone for a dark set-up above, a light set-up further down the post and a blue colour scheme with the curry at the end. A highly frustrating photoshoot (and I’m still not happy with the pics). It’s a good job I get to eat it at the end. Food always calms me down 😋 I love the gentle aromatic flavour of this vibrant rice....

Pineapple Upside Down Cake “Everything is brown!“, I observed, looking at the latest dessert recipes I’ve shared. “Chocolate, caramel, fruit cake – brown, brown, brown. Give me some COLOUR!” And therein lies the exact reason I chose to share this cake today. A girl needs a splash of colour in her life every now and then, despite her commitment to all things chocolate. And this girl needs little encouragement to bring retro fun into her life!...

So Aussie, so summer, so Christmas, so…..erm…80’s….and we love it!!! PRAWN COCKTAIL – HERE TO STAY! “There’s only one thing better than the sight of a pile of fresh, juicy prawns…. and that’s a pile of freshly PEELED prawns!!“ Prawn Cocktails might be a classic from the 80’s but in my books, they have NEVER gone out of fashion and never will! In my younger days, I associated prawn cocktails with posh restaurants and feeling very grown up, eating the prawns out of fancy looking glasses with little forks....

It is still the soup season, but this pressure cooker carrot soup recipe is perfect for all occasion including dinner parties. Yes, you read right, the first time I served carrot soup was at the first dinner party I hosted. It is also a perfect way to sneak in some veggies into the kid’s meals without them realising it. it is warm, light, rich, healthy, perfectly creamy and absolutely delicious even without any addition of cream....

Fat free, full of flavour, and utterly addictive, this is a restaurant style salsa that’s the perfect consistency for scooping up with corn chips. Or go super healthy and serve it with crudités! Salsa recipe – restaurant style You’ve seen the jars sold alongside corn chips at the grocery store. You’ve devoured inordinate amounts of it at your favourite Mexican restaurant. And now it’s time to make it at home....

Talk about a meal in a bowl. This Rich and Creamy Zuppa Toscana has got pan-fried chunks of sausage, tender pieces of potato and juicy green kale, enrobed in a rich, creamy broth and topped with crisp, salty bacon bits. There is nothing not to love about this soup! I made this last week and have been thinking about it ever since. Now I’m not going to say that this is an Olive Garden copycat Zuppa Toscana recipe....

Oven roasting really highlights and brings out their unique flavor. And leftovers are very good too. Look at these gorgeous, colorful peppers! They are as flavorful as they are pretty. Plus, they are so easy to make. They’re one of the easiest vegetable recipes on this website, and leftovers are great too - which is why I make them quite often for my family. I love raw peppers. It’s one of my favorite snacks!...

AN IRRESISTIBLE SWEET POTATO SALAD! This is a terrific “meaty” salad that’s loaded with fantastic textures and flavours, and is filling enough to serve as a main. The combination of peppery fresh rocket / arugula leaves, the sweet potato with the caramelised edges, the soft crunch of pecans with the salty feta then finished with lemony honey dressing is irresistible. One bite, and you’ll go back for more and more!...

Bonus super quick version made with balsamic glaze also included! Rocket Salad with Balsamic Dressing This is a very classic side salad that you’ll find on the menu of fine dining restaurants and local bistros. It goes with virtually any Western dish, and is extremely quick to make: Balsamic Dressing made with just extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper; Rocket lettuce – called arugula in the US & Canada, it’s got a great peppery fresh flavour; and Shaved parmesan – just use a potato peeler!...