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Jacqueline’s stir fry
When I was a kid, I always used to go round to my friend Rachel’s house. I’d end up being there for dinner at least once per week and I loved Rachel’s mum’s food. Still do! My favourite thing that she...
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Garlic Baguettes
I don’t eat bread due to a wheat intolerance. I’m quite often naughty and eat cake and pastry, but bread makes me too ill to make it worth it. Therefore, I never buy it and we never have any in the...
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Maple Mustard Pulled Pork
Well, I’ve posted about pulled pork enough for you all to know that I love it. It’s cheap, requires minimal preparation, feeds the five thousand and more importantly, is delicious. So when I saw this...
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Foodie Penpals January 2013
I was looking forward to getting back into the foodie penpals routine this year. My first box of the year certainly did not disappoint! This month’s parcel was courtesy of Julia at Something Missing....
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Kaleido Restaurant
It was Kieran’s birthday on the 14th January, so we went to Kaleido on the following Friday night for his birthday meal. Kaleido is a fairly new restaurant, situated at the top of the newly reopened...
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Black Forest Gateau
I hate cherries. Well, that’s a lie. I don’t hate actual cherries. But I do hate anything cherry flavoured. Cherry drops, cherry coke; bleurgh. So black forest gateau has never been the cake for me....
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Gluten free peanut butter and chocolate cookies.
I’ve seen a few recipes for peanut butter cookies around the internet, but this is the first one I’ve seen that requires no flour at all. Not even ground almonds, or a flour substitute. Was this going...
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Pretzel coated chicken, with a honey mustard sauce.
Pretzels apparently aren’t just for snacking on; it turns out that they makes a great coating for chicken. I have a plentiful supply of them in the house (I dip them in melted chocolate. Seriously,...
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Starry Leftovers Chicken Pie
When it gets to the end of the month, you’re skint and you have some leftover cooked chicken and some old veg in the fridge. Dinner choices are quite few. The answer for me, is always to make a pie....
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Melting Moments
So I had my cousin over for the night and we decided to bake some biscuits. I didn’t really fancy cookies, so I flipped through some cookery books and found a recipe for ‘Melting Moments’ in the Great...
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Chicken in a wild mushroom sauce
I always keep a bag of chicken breasts in the freezer. When you get home from work late and have no inspiration it’s really easy to roast a chicken breast and make a nice sauce to go with it. One sauce...
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Mango chicken with spiced pilau
Wow, I am busy at the moment. I feel like I’m going to work, cooking, falling asleep then starting again. As I’m getting home from work quite late at the moment, the last thing I want to be doing is...
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Slow Cooked Moroccan Lamb
I’m getting less and less time to cook these days, but am unprepared to compromise on quality. In order for me to make sure that I eat a home cooked meal most nights, the slow cooker has been a key...
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Slow Cooked Chicken Yellow Curry
A great meal to make in the slow cooker is a curry. Throw in your meat and spices and the meat will soften beautifully, while the flavours and spices develop throughout the day, leaving you a truly...
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Plaice meunière
When in Bury market the other week, I picked up two fillets of my favourite fish, plaice, for £2.00. As plaice is so delicate, there’s no point throwing loads of processes and flavours at it. So I just...
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Berry and Ginger Ripple Cheesecake
A few months ago, I joined a baking group in my local area. Essentially, we all meet up at a pub once per month, bring some baked goods, eat them and chat about it. It’s great fun and I’ve met some...
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Pear and Caramel Tarts
This is the world’s easiest recipe. In fact, I wouldn’t even call this a recipe. It’s merely a collection of three ingredients. However, the taste of those three ingredients together is way better than...
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Cajun Salmon with avocado salad
I saw a side of salmon on sale for a crazy price in Tesco. Knowing that it would feed Kieran and I for at least 3 meals, I snapped it up and put it in my freezer. The first recipe I thought I’d try was...
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Poppy Seed Bagels
On Monday morning, I’ll be flying off to New York with my boyfriend for a week. I’m looking forward to it so much, that I’m a big ball of squee, so I thought I’d get myself in the NY mood by making...
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Food travels around New York; Eleven Madison Park
Kieran and I just got back from a week in New York. To say I loved it would be an understatement. We’re already planning to go back next year; it’s such a vibrant, interesting place that I don’t think...
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