Category: Side Dish

A popular stand by dish, if you make potato salad using tinned potatoes it cuts down on the prep time and needing to have salad potatoes available!  I

I love potato salad – eating most of it as a quick meal or side dish in the summer – but when you’re cooking for one it’s not

Can you microwave spaghetti? Of course you can, so the next question is how do you microwave spaghetti as this sounds like a game changer! I only cooked

Most people will simply use a saucepan of boiling water to cook spaghetti, but have you ever wondered if you can cook spaghetti in a microwave?  I guess some

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

This recipe was in the Aldi Christmas brochure in December 2016 – I was just flicking through and snipped out this Pancetta, red onion, herb and lemon stuffing

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

This microwave stuffing recipe can be made from scratch if you want to make your own stuffing mix.  As a general rule, I tend to simply pick up

I bought my first pack of the large frozen Yorkshire puddings at Aldi when planning my Christmas Dinner, I realised I COULD make a Yorkshire pudding – but

If you’re making a microwave Sunday lunch in a hurry, you might want to cook frozen Yorkshire puddings – but can you microwave Yorkshire puddings?  Most frozen Yorkshire

If you’ve got leftover spaghetti at the end of a meal, then it seems a shame to waste it – but can you keep it? Is spaghetti safe