Category: recipes

I have recently made this "bean something" dish a few times, for vegetarian fajitas, to eat with rice, and also as filling for baked potatoes. Its yummy and even better I can feed it to a friend with a requirement for meat-free, dairy-free and gluten-free food! Here's the recipe:

This weekend I got a chance to try out a recipe I've had my eye on for a while. Its this Spicy Cranberry Chutney which I'm making as christmas presents (home made presents - way nicer and way cheaper!). Here is it in progress, and in the jars when it was …

This is the recipe for the cake I made for php london, its a "Farmhouse Cake" apparently but it reminds me of Dundee cake and keeps really well for a good couple of weeks in a tin, which can often be useful!

Today’s recipe is the obligatory follow-up to Shrove Tuesday yesterday. I had actually forgotten it was pancake day until I got in from the gym starving!

Pancake Batter

• 4oz plain flour
• 1 egg
• half a pint of milk

weight the flour (sift it if you like, I never bother …

Pasta is a great store-cupboard staple and can be turned into a meal as complicated or as simple as you please. In this series of articles on “little meals”, the food that is fast and makes either a good lunch or a small dinner for one person, I’ve already …

For a while now I’ve been meaning to write a piece on interesting meals to make in a hurry for one person. I eat at home each day for lunch time and often make something substantial so that I can grab a sandwich later on my way to another …

I often put the slow cooker on when I know that there are going to be people coming and going and wanting feeding at different times in an evening. I usually do a fairly standard chicken casserole but the last couple of weeks I’ve experiemented with beef. One of …

An easy tomato sauce recipe to make in the microwave.

Slice one onion and put it in a microwaveable dish. Add one tablespoon of olive oil and microwave on high for three minutes.

Add one tin of chopped tomatoes, some tomato puree (one tablespoon or one of those little tins …

This week we kind of ran out of food … so here’s my recipe for improvised spaghetti something.

Dice two chicken breasts and place in a frying pan over a moderate heat with some oil.

While the chicken starts to brown, chop up a few slices of bacon into little …

Here is my recipe for microwave cheese sauce.

Take one teaspoon-sized blob of margerine (the sort you can bake with), a tablespoon of plain flour and half a pint of milk. Stir together and place in the microwave on full power for 2 mins (I use my 1 pint pyrex …