After Red Velvet Cupcakes? Here they are! UK readers: Please read note 7. Red Velvet Cake recipe – tried and tested favourite! This Red Velvet Cake has been taste tested and given a big thumbs up by many people because it’s a rather large cake and I’ve made it 5 times in the last two weeks. “FIVE TIMES??!!”, I hear you exclaim (out loud or in your head). “You’re MAD!...
They make a wonderful topping for warm bread, mashed cauliflower, meat, or cooked vegetables. I’m not a fan of raw garlic. I find it too sharp. But when cooked, it’s so delicious, and I use it quite often in many of my recipes. Cooking removes its sharpness and makes it creamy and mild, although it’s still very flavorful. Creamy and almost-sweet, roasted garlic cloves are a delicacy. It’s amazing how cooking eliminates their sharpness, replacing it with a creamy sweetness....
Jump to:📋 What do we need? 🔪 How to roast radishes 🍽️ What to serve them with 🍲 More fantastic side dishes Roasted Radishes 💬 Reviews Sometimes I just get a bit potato-ed out. You know what I mean? Now don’t get me wrong, I love my carbs. Pretty much all of my meals are served with rice, pasta, potatoes or bread!! Which is why i’ve always totally sucked at keto diets....
A fantastic way to get the family eating fish, this salmon dish feels like a real treat.It tastes perfect the way it is, but it’s also a great base dish to use - so you can add in extras - such as hot sauce, mushrooms, prawns and peppers. I love to sprinkle with grated parmesan, black pepper and some fresh baby basil leaves. I love how that creamy tomato sauce clings to the pasta....
Oh man, I love these beef short ribs! So tasty served on a big pile of creamy mashed potato and smothered in gravy. One of the things I love about short ribs is the sheer amount of meat you get on them. These ones from the supermarket are pretty meaty (easily enough for the kids to share one), although if I go to the butchers, they’re sometimes huuuuggge! Last time they were so big, one short rib fed all four of us!...
Spicy Parmesan Party Popcorn The pressure to “deliver” is high when you have a new food blogger friend coming round for lunch and you’ve had a shocker of a weekend so you haven’t had time to prepare for a fancy meal. This new friend is Amanda from Chew Town who is such good value that even if I served her a ham sandwich with store bought bread, she would still munch it down with enthusiasm....
It’s naturally perfect for brunch, but it also makes a great meatless dinner. And if you have leftovers, you can enjoy them for breakfast for several days. I really like frittatas. I like egg dishes in general for breakfast - I find them very satiating - and frittatas are especially easy to make. Plus, leftovers keep well for several days. This spinach frittata is delicious, substantial, and very pretty. I make it often when we host friends for brunch, but I also like to make it for my family for dinner....
It’s been a while since I shared a 15 minute Meal! So I thought I’d share one of my favourites. This is a classic midweek meal for me. I will often do variations of this, using fish and making the mash using other vegetables like peas and parsnip. “Crunchy chicken – without the mess or guilt of deep frying!” To make fast meals from scratch, you need to use some nifty shortcuts and this dinner is packed full of them!...
This easy recipe is oven-baked and it’s ready in just 25 minutes! Even the leftovers are great, especially when flaked cold over a salad. I love teriyaki sauce. It’s so very flavorful. I just don’t like how overwhelmingly sweet it can be sometimes. So I developed this tasty recipe that uses just a bit of honey. It’s really good! I use this sauce when making teriyaki chicken wings and teriyaki chicken drumsticks, and I also use it on salmon....
This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Thai Chicken Satay skewers At the risk of sounding totally obnoxious – this is a recipe for Chicken Satay skewers with Thai Peanut Sauce that truly stacks up to your favourite Thai restaurant. When it hits the stove, the smell is SO GOOD you will just know they are going to taste amazing. Then you have a taste of the peanut dipping sauce…… and you’ll just shake your head, wondering how the heck can something so simple taste so good?...
Pasta bakes really do make the best comfort food! Simple ingredients that come together for a brilliant family dinner. Yes, it’s got cheese, cream and pasta in there, but there are loads of nutritious goodies included too. It’s also one of those meals that works really well with a big side salad. So it ticks all the boxes for me. What do we need? What type of tuna should i use?...
All made in one pot – from scratch, in 20 minutes. Fist pump! Vegetable Pasta There’s a time for making vegetable pasta the proper way – roasting veggies until beautifully caramelised, making a pasta sauce, cooking the pasta, then bringing it all together at the end. It’ll take close to an hour, and it’s totally fabulous. This one pot vegetarian pasta is for all those other times. A complete meal that covers all bases:...
I love hot smoothies, and I make lots of variations - Mocha Oat, apple & elderflower, I even make a hot green smoothie (and no it doesn’t taste like soup!). I made this one originally for the lovely Lucy’s Craftberry Bush blog, and she’s kindly letting me share it with you guys too. My hot smoothies are delicious and comforting, but can be packed full of nutrients too. This version is so good for you - oats, nuts, maca powder (that’s optional, but adds a mild butterscotch taste), banana, coconut and coconut milk....
Ready in just 30 minutes, it’s the perfect lunch. Quick, easy, and delicious. Main-course salads are one of my favorite meals, especially during the summer. They are easy to make, and they don’t require heating up the oven, which is always a big plus, especially when it’s hot outside. ☀️ In my version of a warm steak salad, rather than cook the cut of meat whole and then slice it, I do it a little differently....
Mexican Food Fiesta! If you really twisted my arm and forced me to choose, I’d say Mexican is my favourite food……… along with Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Southern, Italian and Middle Eastern food. 😂😂😂 This feast you see is in the spirit of Cinco de Mayo which is on Saturday, 5 May 2018. It marks the anniversary of Mexico defeating the French invasion in 1862, but ironically, is more widely celebrated in the States than in Mexico....
Air fryers are all the rage these days and for a good reason! They are a healthier way to cook food, especially food like nuggets. The result is crispy and delicious as can be just as deep-fried food. More importantly, it is a better way than cooking these little snacks in the microwave. So if you’re looking for a healthier alternative to cooking chicken nuggets fresh or frozen, look no further as this is the air fryer tutorial you’ll need....
Too. Hot. It’s just TOO HOT to cook! Apparently Sydney is “suffering” through a record breaking heat wave. Climate change. Tut, tut. So tonight (Sunday), as I’m writing up this post and America is gearing up for the single biggest football game of the year (Super Bowl Sunday!), there are two things going through my head: Yup! I’m off to Japan this week! It’s been too long since I’ve been to visit my relatives, get my Japanese food fix /ski fix, shopping galore / visit my relatives (oops, better fix my priorities 😉)....
Did I just invent potato skin croutons? No, I don’t think so. I thought I did, but after a quick google search, it seems nothing is really new in the recipe world. Oh well. They are flippin awesome though. Baking the sweet potatoes gives a thicker, smooth and ever-so-slightly smoky flavour to the soup. Normally I would probably just eat the leftover skin with a bit of butter (I’m definitely a potato-skin girl), but not this time!...
Beef Stir Fry with Honey Pepper Sauce Chinese Beef with Honey Black Pepper Sauce is one of my favourite dishes that I order at Chinese restaurants. Never take out. It has to be at a restaurant because I love the theatrics of how it’s served – sizzling in a cast iron dish. I don’t recreate the sizzle at home – I wish I could! If you have a cast iron dish or a small skillet so you can take it straight from the stove to the table, then you’ll get the sizzle....
Homemade hamburgers are made for piling on toppings of choice. So don’t let anyone tell you what should and shouldn’t go on your burger! Hamburger recipe In my youth, I learned how to make hamburgers from a celebrity chef who insisted that you needed breadcrumbs, egg and seasonings for a truly great burger. And that’s how I made it for years, thinking that was the right way. After multiple trips to the States (sorry Australia, but no one does burgers like America!...
