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This 20-minute recipe is so easy and quick, it’s the perfect weeknight dinner! And leftovers are great too. I cook shrimp fairly often for my family. 🍤 It’s one of those foods that everyone around here likes, even The Picky Eater. And they like it regardless of how I make the shrimp or how I season them. So it’s up to me to vary the recipes that I use. Whenever I have a bag of shrimp in the fridge (or freezer) and I’m unsure how to make them, there’s a good chance I’ll end up making this recipe....

It’s basically a cheesy garlic bread, but so much more fun AND delicious! Cheese, garlic and bread – in pull apart bread form. You can’t go wrong. Guaranteed to be the most popular thing at any gathering you take it to! A CHEESY PULL APART GARLIC BREAD “You will never be able to look at garlic bread the same again….” If you haven’t tried this Cheese and Garlic Crack Bread before, let me warn you now: garlic bread will never be the same again....

This was going to be crispy pineapple chicken – until I started cooking and realised part-way through that I had no pineapple! We’ve ALWAYS got tinned pineapple in, so I’m thinking the kids have been raiding my cupboards for sneaky snacks. I guess I can cope with that - so long as they don’t find my chocolate supply! So I made a last minute change and went for Crispy Chinese Plum Chicken Stir Fry instead....

CHOCOLATE Zucchini Bread?? Are you MAD?? If you’re new to this whole Chocolate Zucchini Bread concept, here’s all you need to know: it is a “thing”. Probably initially born as a way to use up an abundance of zucchini when they’re in season, dolled up to entice little people (and big people who are as fussy about greens as little people). But then once people realised how ridiculously FUDGY zucchini makes it, the idea stuck....

Ready in just 30 minutes and truly easy to make, it’s perfect as a first course at dinner, but you can also serve a bowl of it for lunch. I was never a big fan of soups until I met my husband. He loves soups, and he’s the one who got me hooked on them. He used to make this amazing onion soup in the winter that I really loved....

From the number of pasta bakes and other pasta recipes on our site, I think you can guess how much we love pasta. I often make tomato-based pasta dishes, but today I felt like sharing a rich and creamy pasta bake. This one is definitely rich! Pasta smothered in a creamy sauce with a little garlic and a hint of white wine (optional) with parmesan, cheddar AND mozzarella! Not forgetting the shredded chicken (a great way to use up leftover chicken) and lots of lovely mushrooms....

This post is sponsored by Love Pork. Stranded on a desert island with one food to take with them, sausages would be the hands-down winner for my kids every time. When I was younger, I remember sausages being served in one of only three ways – sausage butties, sausage and mash or toad in the hole! Jump forward 30 (ish) years and I’m amazed at the delicious creations people make using sausages....

Crispy Baked Chicken Legs If you ask me, on a sheer scale of munchability (new word) chicken drumsticks beat out chicken breasts any old day. I’d rather be grabbing a drumstick with my fingers and chomping that meaty flesh off the bone than daintily nibbling a chicken breast with a knife and fork! But, maybe that’s just me. So if you’re in my camp – or actually, even if you’re not (!...

“This noodle stir fry is off the charts when it comes to effort vs output.” This is an example of a fast meal you can make using Slow Cooker Crispy Chinese Shredded Chicken which is great for freezing. When it comes to fast meals, this is by far my best for effort vs output. These stir fry noodles are a complete meal with almost an entire bunch of Chinese broccoli tossed throughout the noodles and it honestly takes just 10 minutes to make using leftover Slow Cooker Crispy Chinese Shredded Chicken....

Crumpet recipe Warburtons is the UK’s biggest and most popular commercial crumpet producer. They make over 700 million of them a year! To cheer up the UK public during lockdown, they shared their secret crumpet recipe for people to make at home. Though I doubt it’s the precise commercial batter recipe (they probably adapted it for the home cook), the end result is EXACTY like store bought crumpets. After many, many, MANY failed crumpet attempts over the years (even from notable chefs!...

A wonderful fish recipe for Easter – or anytime! Just imagine that moment when you dunk in a hunk of warm crusty bread….. Fish Chowder Soup This is really just a Fish Soup but I like to call it a “chowder” because the immature child within believes it sounds a heck of a lot more interesting to say “we’re having Fish Chowder for dinner tonight” rather than just “fish soup”....

This is my copycat of a dish I had at a posh Sydney restaurant. Do you ever go to restaurants, order expensive dishes, pay a fortune and think “heck, I could make this myself!”? That’s exactly what I did in this case. It’s such a simple, beautiful flavour combination which was super easy to replicate at home. Ahem. OK. To be entirely truthful, I may have rather extensively grilled the poor waiter to get as much detail as I could…and he actually had to go into the kitchen to get all the answers!...

Homemade iced tea While I prefer to make iced tea with cold-brewed tea, today I will be sharing with you the quick and classic way of making it. That is, brewing hot tea which is faster than waiting around for cold brew to infuse. This recipe serves two but if you would be serving this to a crowd, please keep reading to know how to. If you would be serving this to a crowd then you would need a pitcher that would be big enough for the number of guests you are serving....

This 2 in 1 recipe is about the chicken and the delicious instant pot gravy made from the dripping. Oh, I love my gravy and every time I make chicken in my pressure cooker, I made sure I save my dripping for later or use in another recipe like this pressure cooker rice and chicken. Why This Instant Pot Whole Chicken Recipe Is So Good This is an easy instant pot recipe and it only requires a handful of kitchen staple ingredients, apart from the chicken, everything else you would need for this recipe I am sure you already have....

I use this Double Duty trick in a handful of recipes, like this Lemon Chicken Salad and Mexican Chicken Salad – and readers love it! Italian Dressing Chicken Marinade Did you know that most salad dressings also make great marinades? Not creamy ones. But pretty much all non creamy ones do, including French Dressing, Honey Mustard Dressing, this Asian Sesame Dressing and Balsamic Dressing. Today I’m sharing an Italian Dressing Chicken Marinade....

Jambalaya Around the world there are many chicken and rice dishes, all delicious in their own right. But then there’s Jambalaya. It’s chicken and rice, yes. PLUS smoked sausages. PLUS prawns (shrimp). PLUS bacon. All mixed up with rice perfectly-cooked in a Creole spiced tomato broth along with tender vegetables. It’s damned hard to argue Jambalaya isn’t one of THE most epic rice dishes in the world*. I scoffed down many a delicious bowl of the stuff during my travels some years ago in New Orleans, spiritual home of Jambalaya in the South....

I love chorizos for breakfast, like in Chorizo Baked Beans on Toast and Chorizo Breakfast Hash with Bacon and Smashed Potato. The big flavour punch is a wake up call! I had to share this recipe today because I got an email from a reader yesterday who made me laugh with this message: “….my confession… I have a slight obsession with Chorizo… Best. Thing. Ever… Do you have any scrumptious recipes involving this godlike substance?...

Whenever I go to the Asian grocery store, I have a list of pantry essentials that I regularly stock up on and wonton wrappers are always on the list. They freeze really well and not only are they great for making….ummm, well, wontons…..they are actually really versatile to use for other bite size goodies. I’ve used them for mini triangles, faux mini cannoli and most commonly, to make little cups for sweet and savoury fillings....

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Delicious Alchemy. All opinions are 100% mine. Oh my! Today I’m bringing your own personal a jar stuffed with layer upon layer of creamy, chocolatey, oaty heaven. Oh, and whilst we’re spoiling ourselves, let’s just drizzle on some salted caramel too. I’m not joking guys, you need to find a spoon and a quiet corner, then sit down and savour every mouthful....

All you need is chicken, rice, tomato passata (or canned tomato) and a handful of pantry essentials to make this incredible flavour loaded, comfort-food-central meal. Oh wait – cheese. Of course you need cheese. This would not be “Enchilada” without cheese! I’ve been overloading on Mexican over the last couple of weeks, sharing my Mexican Shredded Beef and Freezer Friendly Beef Burritos. I feel a bit silly sharing yet another Mexican(-esque) recipe today, but I hadn’t actually planned to!...