My mother in law taught me this recipe – it is the simplest soup recipe you will ever see but a tasty and filling meal! The kind of soup that is easy to make just before pay day when there is nothing in the fridge and only a tin of beans in the cupboard!! This …

An impressive beast of a pie that feeds around 12 people! I made one recently and took on a camping trip and we ate it on the beach. Looks like a lot of effort but it really is not that difficult. Need to make sure I seal the top better next time though as a …

I have been wanting to make this one for months now after I saw in in BBC Good Food magazine but never got round to it and always struggled to find the black beans! Then I found some in Morrisons. Gave it a go for tea tonight and it is going to become a staple …

I have just rustled this up for tea and it only took about 15 minutes! including making the curry paste! luckily I had all the ingredients in my spice cupboard. If you made a large batch of the curry paste and save it you could make it in 10 minutes easily. This comes from the …

This is a dish I recreated based on a meal I had in Boppard, Germany on my recent holiday. After a few days in Germany I was starting to turn into a sausage.. so went for something a bit different on the lunch menu. I ordered “Penne noodles?! with wild garlic pesto rocket, and fresh …

Pork Vindaloo!

Not as scary as it sounds as you can control the amount of heat you want.. this recipe makes a hot but tasty dish without burning your mouth off! The use of vinegar makes this distinctive not a shed load of chillis. Really simple to make too but make sure you start well in advance and …

This afternoon I studied  my Curries of the world” cookbook by Atul Kochhar and decided on a North Indian curry dish mainly because I had all the ingredients in the house and it looked simple but am so glad I chose it! This is a rich and spicy curry that is really easy and quick to …

This is a midweek meal that i make when I have loads of bits of vegetables to use up and wanted to eat low carb, it turned into my father in law’s favourite dish too, he wouldn’t stay for tea though so I would send him home with one from the freezer! He particularly liked …

This is a quick and easy recipe out of my latest copy of Olive magazine.. tested for you! I have added a few bits though and made it my own, the last 3 ingredients are things I added and I also reduced the amount of sugar in the original dish as I found it too …

I wanted to make a Rouladen today, a traditional German dish that my German grandma used to make when I was a kid which is slices of beef spread with mustard and rolled around bacon, gherkins and onions and cooked in an onion gravy. I only had stewing steak in though which is way too …