Category: Recipes

This chilli uses no tomatoes.  No fresh tomatoes, no tinned tomatoes. I’d bought some beef mince which I’d frozen recently and fancied a no fuss bean chilli, which

Takeaway box cooking parsnips is the easiest and fastest way to cook fresh parsnips in under 5 minutes.  Your parsnips can be ready to eat in a few

This is a simple slow cooker orange chicken recipe that has no prep and few ingredients.  I was trying out the Simply range of frozen chicken breast fillets

With parsnips and cabbage to be used up, this oven baked spicy parsnip bubble & squeak was the answer.  I did consider making little individual bubble & squeak

I use a microwave to steam Savoy cabbage, or any cabbage!  It’s quick, taking just 2-3 minutes, easy and doesn’t create any steam. You can have cooked cabbage

If you’re cooking for one then it’s easy to avoid and ignore “large vegetables”, opting instead for handy ready chopped fresh or frozen produce…. a route I’ve usually

A toasted bread roll breakfast topped with healthy scrambled eggs and filling baked beans is a great way to start the day.  Filling, tasty comfort food really starts

For a quick and lower calorie pizza base you can use a tortilla to build a tortilla pizza.  It takes just a few minutes under the grill or

From start to finish, this simple 2 hour slow cooker boiled fruit cake uses easy ingredients and uses a microwave and 3.5 litre slow cooker!  It also costs

It’s British Pie Week 2018 and so it’s almost compulsory to eat a pie 🙂  The British Pie Week 2018 dates are Monday 5 March to Friday 9

Microwave omelette makers don’t tend to work well at all, so I ditched mine years ago – and switched to what I think is the best way to

This is a dessert purchased on a whim, I love creme caramel and this had those words on the box and I was in the mood to buy