Project Type: Light Bites

Sue’s Butter bean soup!

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 …

Sweet potato, Red pepper and lentil soup.

I rustled up a nice soup today which worked really well so here is the recipe… I went off a recipe in Delicious magazine but added a few things of my own.. the one in the magazine is called “Coconut, lentil and sweet potato soup” but the only coconut used is coconut oil.. which doesn’t …

Steamed pork and prawn dumplings

I love dumplings! I made about 25 of these last night and we scoffed the lot between 2 of us! I still had some mixture left over too so I would say that this amount could probably make 30+ dumplings. Ingredients Filling Half a packet of minced pork 8 raw king prawns – chopped finely 1 …

Miso Roasted Aubergine

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 …

Salt and Pepper Mushrooms

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 …

Hot and Sour soup with King Prawn (or Tofu)

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 …