Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 10 minutes and 3 hours cooking time. This is rich hearty tasty dish, including the potatoes when softened before roasting then cooked in lard and garlic they are very crispy and creamy tasting potatoes… delicious. Ingredients 2 lamb shanks Olive oil Small glass of white wine Rosemary…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 15 minutes and 10 minutes cooking time. There are a fair few ingredients for this pitta but the end result is worth it. I enjoy as a nice lunch served warm but you could make ahead for a packed lunch. Ingredients 300g Chicken breast Splash of Olive…
Serves around 8 / Difficulty – Medium / Ready in 3-4 hours A versatile sauce, best served as a bolognese or lasagne. You need to cook this a lot to remove the fresh meat taste and refine the flavour. Ingredients 50g celery 50g onions 50g carrots 1 tablespoon olive oil 250g minced pork 500g beef minced 250g white wine…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Easy / Ready in 10 minutes. This is a quick and easy delicious classic pasta which I consider another comfort food. In Italy it’s not eaten as often as you would think and probably more loved here in England. You’ll find my recipe for the ragu sauce here. Ingredients 300g…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 15 mins and 20 minutes cooking time. This is one of my favourite pastas and one of my main reasons for stocking nduja which you can buy at Ocado now. For the uninitiated Nduja has a taste similar to chorizo but it is a soft Calabrian sausage…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Easy / Prep 10 mins and 20 minutes cooking time. This is a low calorie easy dish that creates a nice sauce for the salmon – as lovely as salmon is cooked plainly it can get a bit boring sometimes. This sauce gives it a nice pick-me-up. Ingredients 2 Salmon…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 30 minutes and cooking 20 minutes. This is my wife’s favourite curry. And I must admit as soon as I have the ghee, mustard seeds and curry leaves cooking the smell is heavenly. I buy the biggest tiger prawns I can find (uncooked and in the shell),…
Serves 3-4 / Difficulty – Easy / Ready in 10 minutes. I find hummus a lot more versatile than just spreading on pitta (not that there is anything wrong with that of course) but try it on my peppers and eggs sandwich recipe and it takes an already great sandwich to a whole new level.…
Makes 2 sandwiches / Difficulty – Easy / 10 minutes prep and 50 minutes cooking time. I dreamt up this sandwich after watching an episode of the Sopranos. One of the gang was handing out sandwiches and Uncle Junior looked at one of the other guys sandwiches and said to himself ‘Peppers and eggs! that’s…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Easy / 5 minutes prep and 10 minutes cooking time. My mother in law introduced me to peverada pasta, I added the broccoli, truffle oil and cheese to pimp it up a bit. Ingredients 1 head of broccoli with stems remove 180g of fusilli pasta 6 tablespoons of peverada Truffle…