Last but not least! a tasty crispy pork dish with a fiery sauce! There are 2 parts to this recipe, I would suggest making the sauce ahead of the pork. This is a recipe from Olive Magazine. Szechuan Chilli sauce Ingredients makes 150ml. 1 tbsp chilli flakes 2 tsp crushed Szechuan peppercorns 100ml Oil 3 …

If you are an Aubergine fan you need to try this! I made a spare aubergine too and I will use it to chop up and put into some cous cous for tomorrows lunch. This recipe is adapted from one in Good Food magazine. Ingredients 1 large aubergine 2 tbsp brown Miso paste Thumb sized …

If you only make this for the sauce you have to try it! I will be making a large batch of this sauce and trying it with everything, I love it! This recipe was in Olive magazine. Ingredients Serves 2. This recipe needs at least 1 hour marinating time but is very easy. 8 Boneless Skinless …

Adapted from a takeaway fave! Tasty and meaty, spicy mushrooms! Ingredients serves 2 as a starter or serve with rice and noodles as a main 1 packet of mushrooms – closed cup, button or chestnut. 2 cloves of garlic – chopped finely 1 small onion diced finely 1 small green pepper diced finely 2 red …

This was a bit of an experiment of just chucking loads of things in so the measurements may not be exact – just play around with it but keep the basic principles of the recipe. It looks like a lot of ingredients but its a simple soup to make and ready in 20 minutes. To …

Not really sure if I should part with this one but I have just been asked if I have a recipe for carrot cake!.. DO I!! This is my “go to” cake, its very hard to get wrong and people say that they love it. There are a few variations though which I will give …

Having been full of a cold last week I needed something nice and stodgy to help me to feel sorry for myself and beef stew was what I needed! Dumplings would have made it even better but I couldn’t bring myself to ruin the diet THAT much! Below are the basic principles, you choose what …

Lemon and Thyme cake

I made this cake last week to take with me to our weekend away at Ribby Hall with friends..(restaurant review to follow!) Unfortunately I didn’t get a decent photograph of it before I served it on paper plates with plastic cutlery as I’d have “a few” wines by the time we got round to cake, …

I am giving this 5.2 diet a go for a few weeks to see if it makes any difference, so needed something very low calorie for lunch. Managed to make something that is around 175 Calories! (according to the My Fitness Pal” app.) Obviously it would be better with more eggs and some chopped chorizo …

I have had a request for my King Prawn Linguine recipe so here it is! This recipe won a competition to appear in Lakeland’s 50th Anniversary cookbook, something which I am very proud of. I am on the page next to Heston Blumenthal, followed by Michel Roux jr! I get my prawns from the Chinese …