Serves 4 / Difficulty – Easy / Prep 10 minutes and 25 minutes cooking time. This is a fairly quick inexpensive evening meal with lots of flavour. Make sure the potatoes are waxy and you’ll get much better results. Ingredients 700g waxy potatoes, peeled and cut into 3cm cubes 1 small onion, thinly sliced 25g…
Serves 8-10 / Difficulty – Easy / Preparation 30 minutes and 45-1 hour baking time Most of the time I hear people saying carrot cake is too dry, well this a proper carrot cake, very moist with a delicious tangy creamy topping. Its one of the best carrot cakes I have ever tasted and it…
Serves 2-4 / Difficulty – Easy / Preparation and cooking in around 30 minutes This is a Rick Stein recipe that is pretty easy and very delicious. My mother in law makes a pasta all busara and if there is any sauce left over you can keep and use it to make a quick tasty…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 20 minutes and around 10 minutes cooking time For the truffle I find the Truffle Hunter brand quite good and judging by the reviews so do other people. I have tried other brands but they can be almost tasteless – the Truffle Hunter sells minced which you…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Preparation 30 minutes and 30 minutes cooking time I developed this recipe after enjoying some scallops recently as a starter – and the taste transported me back 30 years to a lunch I used often have whilst working as a young art director in an advertising company. Over…
Serves 4-6 / Difficulty – Hard / Prep 1½ hour and 45 minutes cooking time This is a recipe I have taken from the legendary Italian cookbook Silver Spoon which you can buy here. Sartù is not for the faint hearted as you basically prepare a number of little dishes and then combine to make…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 30-40 minutes and cooks in 5 minutes A classic dish that is really not very difficult if you have the patience to deal with the lobster. I’ll be honest and say that as the picture shows I often don’t bother putting the meat back in the shell…
Serves 4 / Difficulty – Easy / Prep ½ hr – cooks in 4 Many years ago I lived in Greenwich and there was an amazing Indian restaurant that served a dish called a Nepalese Khutta which I ordered often, it had a gravy-like taste to it which I have never come across before or…
Makes 8 medium balls / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 45 mins and fried in 5 minutes I first discovered arancini existed whilst watching an episode of the Sicilian detective series Inspector Montelbano, and the episode was called ‘Gli arancini di Montalbano’, obviously arancini featured heavily and I had to know what these little balls…
Serves 4 / Difficulty – Easy / Prep 20 mins and 1.5 hours cooking time. I recall Apple notified me of this recipe when I was reading my iPad one evening and I instantly thought that I had to try it. I wasn’t disappointed and I have copied the recipe intact which was from Olive…