Add your favourite toppings, and healthy dose of cheese then pop it in the oven! No yeast? No worries! Make this Magic No Yeast Pizza Dough. Pizza Sauce recipe To be completely honest, you can get away with just using plain tomato paste with a pinch of salt and pepper as a pizza sauce. Once you pile on cheese and other toppings, it’s still completely scoffable. However, it really is worth taking a bit of time to make a great pizza sauce!...
I’ve only really started to like gingerbread cake in the last few years. Despite the fact that I’m 38 (OMG that looks so much worse when I write it down!!), I only feel like I’ve grown into being a proper adult in the last few years. Perhaps it was starting the blog and then trying to turn it into a business – making my own decisions about the direction of my work, rather than having objectives and targets filtered down through upper management....
Quiche Toast Cups I love quiche, but I don’t usually have ready made pastry in stock, and it is even rarer that I attempt to make pastry. So this is my way of making mini quiches – using toast cups made with sandwich bread. I didn’t do a very good job of pressing the bread into the muffin tin, as you can see from the squiggly shape of my toast cups....
Or if you don’t want to serve up these scalloped potatoes as a side dish, make it the main event with a few little additions. I’m using chunks of leftover baked ham, buttery fried onions and 3 different cheeses. It’s carblicious, ultra cream and cheesy, and probably a million calories (I’ll work it out and include in the recipe card), but who cares when it tastes this good? We start by frying up slices of onion in a pan (1) with butter, garlic, salt, pepper and a little garlic salt....
Have you ever tried shaved sprouts? They’re delicious! Especially if you’re someone who isn’t keen on whole sprouts. The third speedy recipe in my series of four sprout side dishes (check out the first one – 3 cheese sprout gratin and honey balsamic sprouts with almonds). Shaved sprouts lightly sauteed in butter and garlic, topped with a honey mustard dressing, plus tart cranberries, walnuts and parmesan! I could eat this as a meal in itself!...
I was asked to come up with a tapas-style recipe for Tasty Easy Lamb (who sponsored this post) for National Curry Week 2017. I love lamb, and curry, and mini food, so needless to say I immediately agreed! Although lamb is probably my favourite joint for a roast dinner, there’s so much more you can do with it! Shepherd’s pie and hotpot are probably the first things that come to mind, but spices, curries and even salads (wow, that’s an old photo, I must re-shoot that one!...
Pound Cake Pound Cake can spark spirited debates in the baking world. Some are adamant we should stay true to the traditional method that uses no baking powder in order to give it lift, resulting in quite a dense, heavy cake by modern tastes. Others insist on “improving” Pound Cakes by making the crumb much lighter and fluffier, giving rise to something (hah!) that barely resembles what a Pound Cake should be like....
Try it. It will surprise you! Welcome to Day 12 of the inaugural Holiday Salad Marathon, where I’m sharing 30 salads in a row through to Christmas Eve – just for something different to the usual sugar-loaded baking countdowns!! Today, something FRENCH(ish): Tomato Salad with Olive Tapenade This is a great tomato salad reminiscent of the south of France with the use of black olive tapenade. You can throw this together in minutes if you’ve already got a pre-bought jar of olive tapenade lying around in your fridge, else it’s worth making the tapenade yourself from scratch if you’re just looking to make a tomato salad that’s a little different!...
It’s easy to go into carb overload during the colder months. Right now with the house extension going on, and my only method of cooking at home being a single plug-in hob, a microwave and a toaster, we’re starting to get into the habit of feasting on chips, large sandwiches and stodgy cakes. I’m not beating myself up about it. I know it’s only a temporary thing, and we’ll get back to lovely homecooked meals soon, but I would like to throw in the occasional nod to healthy eating....
Jus is more savoury and complex in flavour than say a typical gravy. If you have homemade beef stock or chicken stock on hand, this is a deceptively easy sauce that will elevate any dish to fine dining levels! What exactly is jus? If the word “jus” conjures images of Masterchef and fine dining restaurants, you’re right on the money! Jus is a French culinary term for what you can think of as the posh cousin of gravy....
Jump to:Tip 1. Make Canapes instead of Starters Tip 2. Make-ahead Gravy Tip 3. Make those Roast Potatoes ahead too! Tip 4. Make-ahead Mashed Potato Tip 5. Keep the Roast Turkey simple! Tip 6. Wrap those Pigs in Blankets Tip 7. Buy Ready-Prepped Veg Tip 8. Make a Punch Bowl! Tip 9. Set the Table ahead Tip 10. Make-ahead Dessert (without taking up fridge space) Bonus tips! 📺 Watch the video 💬 Reviews...
1. Apple Pie Cups! By yours truly. 🙂 Thai Chicken Salad Wonton Cups! Also by yours truly. :- ) Roll up cheese, add pepperoni, fry it and I challenge you to stop at one. Bake it for a lighter option. Mozzarella Pizza Stick by Culinary Hill. Add pepperoni and it becomes a Pizza Stick. Or don’t roll it up and it becomes bite size pizzas. Pepperoni Wonton Bites by the Bariatric Diva....
All cookbook action around these parts!! Back in October 2021, I made the decision to put a pause on posting new recipes on this website to allow myself “just a couple of months” to focus on writing my first cookbook. I really expected (and declared as such!) to be back to my usual routine of sharing 3 new recipes a week by December. Then in December, I declared I’d be back in February....
The collection contains both savory and sweet snacks, and they can all be made at home with basic, simple ingredients. Deprivation and cravings are the enemies of any way of eating. For those of us used to snacking, learning how to make tasty low-carb snacks can be the difference between success and failure. Making sure you always have delicious keto items to reach for is the best insurance against reaching for the foods you’re trying to get away from - starchy, sugary, and processed....
Make this a complete meal and serve with this delicious, creamy Boursin mashed potatoes or pink sauce pasta and cucumber salad. How to store meatloaf Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container or in an aluminum foil in the fridge for up to 3 days or in the freezer for up to 2 months. I already have an instant pot meatloaf recipe on the blog but ever since I made it in the air fryer, I haven’t looked back....
The sauce tastes like a homemade Chilli Jam except it’s far easier to make. 15 minutes, start to finish! Quick prawn recipe with BIG flavours! While I love a classic Chinese-style prawn stir fry with its clean and steady flavours, or the heart-stopping (in more ways than one) fried and sweet deliciousness of Honey Prawns, sometimes I find myself looking for a punch in the face (flavour-wise, that is!) This prawn recipe came to be after I had a terrific Stir Fried Prawns in Chilli Jam at a modern(ish) Thai Restaurant....
This is the mushroom version of the Beef and Chicken Vegetable Ramen Noodles which have rapidly become firm reader favourites! “We can never have enough ramen noodle recipes!” Asian Mushroom Ramen Noodles Instant ramen is economical, versatile and quick to prepare. But if you’re thinking of plonking it into a saucepan with the packet seasoning mix and adding some chopped veggies – STOP! You can make that ramen taste so much better – with very little effort....
I remember when Chris and I took the kids around a food festival in Manchester a few years ago. We had a great time and tried so many different foods, we were really in our element! When we asked the kids what their favorite thing from the day was they said " The Churros, they were AMAZING", I think Gracey has had a thing for cinnamon sugar since. So I knew I had to come up with a winning churro recipe that I could make at home....
This is one of those rare foods that is a truly fabulous freezer meal and keeps for days in the fridge! Baked Spaghetti I call it a casserole, I call it a pie, I call it a pasta bake. I actually don’t really know if there’s a proper name for this, but what I do know is this: You are going to love it. Because it’s everybody’s favourite Spaghetti Bolognese – PLUS CHEESE....
Terrific for any type of steak – for grilling or pan searing! Beef Steak Marinade Steaks are like wine – the more you spend, the better they are. Juicier, more flavour, more tender, no random bits of sinew throughout. And as much as we’d all like to be able to splurge on premium quality beef every time we have a hankering for steak, the reality is that most of us cannot!...
