This is a dish for people who love potatoes. And a game-changer if you think that you don’t. Relative to Dauphinoise potatoes, its decadent, rich cousin, a dish of French Boulangère Potatoes can be frugal and even respectably low in calories. But boulangère potatoes are most certainly not lacking flavour. French boulangère potatoes are made…
Today I’m sharing my healthy chicken pho soup recipe. I’m always inspired by trying new food when I travel. It’s my favourite way to discover more about where I’m visiting and a great way to get involved in conversations with locals. And then of course I have to try and recreate the dishes I’ve loved…
This soup recipe is one that I love for its simplicity. Spicy tomato and lentil soup can be made with ingredients that you probably already have in your fridge and storecupboard. It’s warming, hearty and, depending on the stock you use, can be a vegan or vegetarian dish. It’s an incredibly forgiving recipe too. If…
It’s always great to have a raft of favourite recipes that are simple to cook and make use of mainly store cupboard ingredients. Which is why I love this zingy tomato and chilli sauce for pasta. It has just four ingredients and takes minutes to make and it’s great for vegetarians and meat eaters alike….
What do you eat for Christmas lunch? When I’m cooking for two, I generally make a game dish – Partridge, Venison or Pheasant are favourites of mine. This year I was lucky enough to win a game hamper from the Scottish game company Woodmill. We enjoyed a stunning chestnut stuffed roast pheasant for Christmas and…
I always enjoy creating pasta sauce. It’s an easy way to use up all my leftover veg and herbs and a really quick dinner to make. I have made my own pasta on occasion but am so impressed by the range of stuffed pastas all our supermarkets are producing. And somtimes I just don’t have…
What to do when you’ve got all those annoying scraps of cheese leftovers lurking in the bottom of your fridge? In my case, I make rarebit – sometimes a classic Welsh rarebit with hard cheese and sometimes a variation, like this blue cheese rarebit, where you can use anything from 50-100% blue cheese to make…
I love a frittata. They are a great way to use up whatever I can find in my fridge. I also like delving through my freezer for frozen vegetables and today I discovered bags of peas and broad beans which is where this idea for a pea, broad bean and asparagus frittata originated. I also…
I’m not much of a pudding eater…kind of prefer to save my calorific intake for savoury treats. But I am a huge fan of this traditional South African dessert called Malva pudding. It’s a pretty youthful pudding, allegedly served for the first time at the restaurant at Boschendal, near Stellenbosch in the late 1970s. I’ve…
In summer I manage to grow most of my own salad leaves. I pick what I need and never have leftovers (or if I do, the snails are just very grateful). But, with no greenhouse, once autumn kicks in, I’m forced into buying salads from the supermarket – bags of rocket and mixed salad, little…
