I was recently asked to bring a pasta salad to a family birthday, and of course it's the one salad I pretty much NEVER make. I wanted to avoid the usual creamy options, and ended up with two different versions, both of which were a hit. GREEN MACHINE PESTO PASTA SALAD Toss some traditional basil [...]
If you love prawns and love using minimal ingredients for maximum results then you are going to LOVE these. what you need 1 kg green prawns, heads removed, shell removed except for tail segment sea salt peppercorns: black or Szechuan are best dried chilli flakes a little olive oil for frying spring onion, finely sliced [...]
Ask anyone who knew me as a child, and they would tell you that if I had been allowed to, I would have lived on nothing but potatoes. Mashed, baked, fried, boiled, there was no way I did not love to eat potatoes. Fast forward a few decades and not much has changed except that [...]
Mashed potato and chorizo sausage all crispy golden crumbed and fried? Yes please. For a vegetarian alternative feel free to swap the chorizo for some spinach or peas: also yum! what you need 2 fresh chorizo sausages a good quantity of mashed potato, butter okay but no milk salt and pepper a pinch of smoked [...]
I say midweek because this is the kind of get-home-from-work-on-a-Thursday dinner I fall back on A LOT, but this is an any time any day winner, just twenty minutes in a hot oven with something green thrown in alongside. Add some garlic butter for keto flavour, or keep it light with some lemon slices on [...]
Pizzoccheri is technically the name of the buckwheat pasta in this dish, the dish itself comes from the Lombardy region of Italy and is known as Pizzoccheri alla Valtellinese. It's one of those not much to look at but so good to eat dishes, a hearty vegetarian option for a cold evening. I made the [...]
This simple kind of one pan or tray bake cooking is perfection. Healthy, quick and no fuss, and colourful. Use up whatever you have in the fridge, whatever is in season, or what you feel like right now. what you need chicken thigh cutlets, with bone in and skin on a few potatoes, halved or [...]
Truth be told there is no "recipe" I have spent more time perfecting than my regular friday night margaritas. A classic margarita has only three ingredients: tequila, orange liqueur, and fresh lime juice, served with a salt rim. For the tequila I use either blanco {clear in colour, aged the least} or reposado {amber coloured, [...]
If you're an Italophile like me you don't need a lot of prompting to try these delicious chewy cookies. But when a friend just KEPT ON sharing pics of Italian sweets online and then my hairdresser offered me a freshly baked amaretti, who was I to resist? They are super quick and easy to whip [...]
This is such a handy little recipe to have in your pocket, it is healthy and delicious and a lot simpler than you might think. One large snapper to share or a smaller one per person, scaled and gutted by your fishmonger, is roasted in a hot oven with some potatoes, giving you an impressive [...]
