Category: Side Dishes & Vegetables

When I want to give baked beans an extra kick, I’ll make a simple chilli beans recipe that I first saw in a small recipe booklet I bought

There’s a glut of cauliflowers they say – and we’re being urged to eat cauliflower this week. Well, when you’re cooking for one you might just stare at

I’ve not ever tried to cook couscous WITH a hob, in fact I was staggered when I saw somebody on the television Come Dine With Me programme doing just

This is a simple cauliflower cheese with red onion, that I finished off by browning under the grill.  When you’re making a small portion and cooking for one

Chantenay carrots are small and sweeter than the long/hard carrots you can buy in a greengrocers.  They don’t take as long to cook. You can cook them the

In under 10 minutes it’s easy to cook rice in the microwave oven; there are a few ways to do it. I like basmati rice, so tend to

I usually cook by eye, guessing how much I’ll need to cook, but sometimes I deliberately weigh food to see how much there is in weight.  I’ve got

Bubble and squeak as a recipe couldn’t be simpler – and you don’t have to shape it into fishcake shapes and fry it! This bubble and squeak recipe has

Side dish or main dish, Bubble & Squeak is a traditional British food which uses up leftover cabbage and potato – although you can make bubble and squeak

The easiest potato recipe has to be without peeling, the quickest way to cook the potato and something that can be the perfect solution to people with a

No cutting, no peeling – this is a no prep method to cook swede in a microwave – and it’s more recently been named the Singing Swede. I’ve

The secret to perfect brussels sprouts every time is, in short, to stop over-cooking them!  Brussels sprouts are not supposed to be a boiled down mush, they should