Apricot and Almond Upside Down Cake

Sort of playing around with the apple and almond cake recipe from recently, this time though dried not fresh fruit , its still January not matter how much I want to believe its summer. So there will be tea and cake this weekend and I have to do some re-ordering of dry ingredients.

Apricot and Almond [...]

Leek and Lemon Risotto

Back home to an emptyish fridge ,  but leeks from the vegebox , they do seem to last forever. If the snowdrops are to be belived Spring is on its way….this certainly looks like a Spring dish and tastes light and zingy…….and yet warming in this still damp weather.
Lemon and Leek Risotto
2 medium [...]

Three Bean Chilli

First weekend in two months is hasn’t rained lots of long walks round water making friends with the wildlife in the winter sunshine , but its still pretty cold when you get in a warming meal definitely required … out with the beans and a little rib sticking three bean chilli
I probably make a bean [...]

Cauliflower Soup

I had to hang around the flat this morning waiting for the telephone engineer so watching  a bit of Nigella Bites,  she was doing comfort food making risotto which meant I then craved it all day and was planning to try a leek and lemon risotto. Got brown rice , white rice , wild rice  [...]

Quick Apple and Almond Cake

Also this weekend realised it had been such a busy week, I had not baked any cake !! Such a crime for the true domestic goddess which I aspire to be . Plenty of apples in the fruit bowl .
So a very very quick cake that could cook in just 15 minutes, think [...]

Sunday Shepherds Pie

A nice alternative to a Sunday roast is a tasty pie its a good thing to heat through after a long walk and can be made entirely in advance .If I can’t make it out walking on a Sunday lazing around with books and papers comes a close second .
Shepherds Pie does ever so [...]

Pasta Primavera

Pasta Primavera
1 handful of dried pasta
1/2 handful of Carrots , chopped to matchsticks
1/2 handful of Leek , roughly chopped
1/2 handful of Broccoli
1 tbsp of thyme leaves
1 tbsp of roughly chopped parsley
1tsp on vegetable stock powder

Cover the pasta with boiling water and cook until it is beginning to to soften
Add [...]

Creamy Cruciferous Vegetable Soups

Broccoli Stilton and Walnut Soup.

Creamy cruciferous vegetables , with a nutty bite , you might not want to leave this soup too long or it will go a kind of yellowy colour this dish takes less than 15 minutes to make . You could substitute cream for milk and up the stilton for a [...]

Pizza

I had never made a pizza until about a year ago, watching the guys flipping pizza dough always made me feel it was beyond the reach of the home cook , however it is really very easy and both the base and sauce ingredients are all things I keep in stockThe [...]

Butternut Squash Soup

Everyone in the UK is sick at the moment with colds and flu , so far I have avoided it but this is a soup to ward off colds or help you recover, combining warm flavours of chilli , orange and ginger richness is added by some cocanut milk
400g of butternut squash cubed
1/4 [...]