*** This recipe is part of a Christmas Special where I show you how to make 3 mains and 4 side dishes that take 1.5 hrs to prepare and can be largely made ahead. So this Christmas, you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your family! 🙂 *** This mightn’t be the sexiest sounding salad around but it sure packs a punch in the flavour department and takes the humble cabbage to a whole new level!...
This post was created in collaboration with Grana Padano and Prosciutto di San Daniele. Look out for the Protected Designation of Origin symbol, which is an assurance of quality! It’s almost picnic season! I love piling a tonne of food into a picnic basket (or more likely, two great big rucksacks) and heading out with Chris and the kids for a sunny day of fun with lots of lovely food to look forward to....
Up until recently, I really hated photographing halloween food. Trying to get that spooky atmosphere, with moody lighting and creepy props should sound like fun, but I ALWAYS seem to end up with photos that look dull, dark and tacky (stupid plastic spiders!). I even made Halloween fungus carbonara last week - using black spaghetti and some weird and wonderful mushrooms. I thought it’d look awesome, but honestly? It looked and tasted vile!...
Use for Eggs Benedict and steamed asparagus, and it’s also particularly spectacular with crustaceans such as lobster, crab, prawns/shrimp and scallops. Hollandaise Sauce This classic sauce is regarded as one of the most technically challenging in the French cooking repertoire. Traditionally made with just a whisk and bowl set over a double boiler, it takes a good 10 to 15 minutes of vigorous whisking. If the heat is too high you end up with scrambled eggs....
Homemade French Onion Dip Confession time: I’ve made shortcut French Onion Dip using a packet of French Onion Soup mix many, many times…. and in fact, here’s the recipe! BUT a REAL Homemade French Onion Dip, made from scratch by making your own caramelised onion trumps the shortcut soup mix version 10 times over. Thank you Ina Garten! I will never give up the packet soup mix French Onion Dip....
An essential for hot summer nights, quick mid week meals, make ahead lunches and gatherings! Italian Pasta Salad recipe I was inspired to make this because I went on a Salami Bender* after the Salami Cream Cheese Roll I shared a couple of weeks ago. I could never be a food magazine editor or similar. Because a proper editor would ensure that a variety of recipes and ingredients are used....
They are crispy and so delicious, on their own or dipped in sour cream or sugar-free marinara sauce. No more excuses! You CAN enjoy delicious crunchy snacks on the keto diet. So instead of reaching out for something that you really shouldn’t eat, let’s devote 20 minutes to making these delicious chips. When you’re craving something tasty and crunchy, these oven-baked keto cheese chips are the perfect solution. This particular version is made with mozzarella and oregano....
An easy 30-minute recipe that you mix in a single bowl, they keep well in the fridge and can also be successfully frozen. I love chocolate baked goods and make these chocolate cupcakes often. But sometimes you want a simpler flavor profile, and these fit the bill perfectly. Pleasantly flavored with vanilla and oh so fluffy, these keto cupcakes are a real treat. I like to frost them with chocolate frosting, but you can also use vanilla frosting if you prefer....
This is a cookbook exclusive recipe! This recipe is exclusive to my debut cookbook Dinner which includes a how-to video for every recipe. Just scan the QR code! Just to explain…. I know, it’s confusing! You’re so used to getting recipes on my website – there’s over 1,200 of them, after all. And here you are looking at a tasty recipe video and I haven’t provided the recipe. 🙀 I’m not just doing this to torture you, I promise....
How smug do you feel? (Answer: VERY!) Mexican Meatballs I probably shouldn’t admit this, given I run a recipe website and I feel like I’m expected to have a positive attitude to all things food. The truth is I don’t really have the patience for meatball rolling. I’ve previously whined that someone really needs to invent a meatball rolling device. I picture some tube-like thing into which meat is stuffed, then perfectly shaped meatballs come plopping out the other end....
Created in collaboration with Neff Bake It Yourself. I don’t even think about mince pies between the months of January and November, yet come December I can’t get enough of them! Juicy, sweet-yet-tart mincemeat stuffed into buttery pastry, then topped with even more pastry (or frangipane!) - totally addictive! I love making mince pies at Christmas, but then I always find myself left with half a jar of mincemeat filling....
Well I’m back today after a lovely week off with a Mincemeat Pancakes with Orange Butter Sauce recipe. Since Christmas seemed to go so fast, I’ve decided to stretch out the festive season a little longer with these mincemeat pancakes. They’re such a tasty way to use up that jar of leftover mincemeat in your cupboard. Come on now, we both know that jar is still going to be there next Christmas if you don’t do something with it quickly....
Nachos is one of those universal foods that everyone loves, whether health conscious or not! But let’s face it – the calories in a pile of nachos goodness isn’t the best for our health. Does it stop us? Never! BUT it means we can’t eat nachos as often as we like. So I present to you….midweek Nachos Pie! All the flavour, much of the crunch, with far less calories to satisfy your Nachos craving any day of the week!...
One of the amazing recipes my dad taught me to cook, Nasi Goreng - or Indonesian Fried Rice - is a dish he cooked many times as I was growing up. Inspired by the years he spent in Singapore, he really picked up a taste for Malaysian, Indonesian and Singaporean flavours.It took a bit of time for me to love those flavours too (I preferred crispy pancakes or fish fingers over some of his spicier recipes when I was a kid), but now have a deep affection (and many cravings) for every recipe he made....
Ottolenghi’s Green Bean Salad I’m a self-confessed Ottolenghi tragic (who isn’t??). His gift and passion for imagining original vegetable dishes with eclectic influences that are vibrant, nourishing, exciting and beautiful to the eye all at once, is inspired. This is a recipe adapted from a green bean salad in his popular cookbook Jerusalem. In classic Ottolenghi style, it’s a salad that brings together an unlikely combination of ingredients that nevertheless just works so well together:...
I’m a big fan of one pot chicken and rice recipes like Baked Rotisserie Chicken with Garlic Butter Rice, Chinese Chicken and Rice, Cheesy Chicken Broccoli and Rice and Mexican Chicken Rice. Big flavours, two dishes made in ONE pot! Oven Baked Chicken with Cranberry, Walnut and Apple Rice Pilaf. That’s somewhat of a mouthful of a recipe name, isn’t it??!! Oh wait – “mouthful”. Head smack Talk about a bad joke....
Once the meat is cooked, you can add some cheese, cut it into squares, and serve! It’s so much easier than pan-frying. Ground beef is so convenient, versatile, and affordable. I almost always have a package or two of vacuum-sealed ground beef in the fridge (or in the freezer), so I use it quite often when cooking for my family. My go-to recipes used to be juicy bunless burgers and cheese-stuffed meatballs....
Cooking the pork tenderloin whole keeps this lean healthy cut of pork lovely and juicy! So basically, this sauce is like gravy on steroids. Good steroids, that is. Not the kind that naughty athletes use. 😉 Have you ever had Marsala Sauce before? Or made anything with Marsala? Marsala is a fortified wine, so it’s thicker and sweeter than normal wine. It has many layers of flavours in it which makes it a fantastic secret weapon in the kitchen, one that chefs in posh restaurants use regularly....
For a lighter dressing option, try a No-Mayo Creamy Potato Salad Dressing made with yogurt, or this No-Mayo Red Potato Salad with Charred Corn and Bacon! A Potato Salad you’ll make again and again… This recipe is from the mother of a good friend, and thus I originally named this recipe in her honour, calling it Mrs Brodie’s Potato Salad. The very first time I heard how Mrs Brodie makes her potato salad, I instantly knew that this was one that would stand out from the crowd of thousands – millions – of potato salad recipes “out there” in the world wide web....
The combination of the tender-crisp asparagus and the warm, salty prosciutto is wonderful. And even the leftovers taste great! I’m always on the lookout for interesting appetizers, and this is a great new find. Well, not so new actually, as I’ve already made it a few times - I’m completely enamored with the flavor combination. Prosciutto-wrapped asparagus is an impressive dish, for sure. And it tastes so good! The combination is a classic one....
