Cheesecake and Lemon Meringue pie/tart are two of my favourite desserts. This dessert combines the two for an amazing result. The lemon citrus flavour of the cheesecake blends beautifully with the lemon curd layer, topped by a pillowy meringue.
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This is a simple, basic recipe to combine beef & potatoes to create a meal that is a great base for dinner when combined with a salad or your favourite vegetables.
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If you are looking for an impressive dessert to serve when you have friends over for dinner, then look no further, this is it!!.
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Butter Chicken (or Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular and best known Indian dishes around the world. You can easily find many different recipe versions and variations to Butter Chicken.
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Using raspberries and white chocolate is one of my favourite combinations in any dessert. The tartness of the raspberries is a perfect match for the sweetness of the chocolate.
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Lasagne is a favourite pasta for many people. It’s a very versatile dinner. You can load it up with vegetables or keep it simple and serve separately with your favourite vegetables or salad.
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If you are a fan of maltesers and the malt flavour that bursts from each bite, then you will love this vanilla malt buttercream cake.
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The pork sausage is nice and juicy. The mushroom sauce is lovely and creamy. The penne provides a filling addition. The mozzarella gives a beautiful baked cheesy finish.
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This recipe draws it’s inspiration from the Spanish Patatas Bravas dish. This is a dish that is often served with a spicy sauce as part of a tapas menu.
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Lemon in desserts is a favourite for many people. The sweetened citrus flavour is just so special. So lemon lovers –
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Risottos are great meals during the colder months. They provide hearty, tasty meals to lift your spirits during these times. However, I like Risottos all year round, and they are a fairly regular dish for us at home.
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I love cinnamon doughnuts, whether warm or cold, though it is hard to get warm cinnamon doughnuts nowadays. I also like doughnuts decorated with a range of other sweets or beautifully iced.
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Gnocchi is one of my favourite forms of pasta. Mixed with a light sauce usually creates a wonderfully tasty meal. Most of the time, we boil our gnocchi in preparation for dinner.
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Sticky date desserts are a favourite of just about everyone. We love it in both the pudding and cake form. It is usually the caramel sauce that makes it extra special and such a rich treat.
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Pasta based dishes are a regular on our home meal schedule. We tend to have cream based sauces more often than tomato based.
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This is really nice variation to the more traditional Spaghetti Bolognaise by using gnocchi as the added pasta. The mince is simmered with the added vegetables to release their flavour and combine beautifully.
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3 layers of chocolate fudge cake, surrounded by rich, sweet caramel spread buttercream with Caramello Chocolate swirled through. Topped with a coating of chocolate sauce and drizzled with caramel sauce.
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Casseroles & stews are a fantastic way to turn a ‘relatively’ cheap cut of beef into a beautiful melt in your mouth dinner full of taste and flavour.
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Pasta bakes are one of my favourite categories of food. We usually have the more traditional Italian inspired sauces and the result is usually a beautiful dish that feeds the family and keeps everyone satisfied.
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Pasta served with a tomato, mince based sauce always provide a welcome dinner in our house. You can serve it with salad or vegetables and get a lovely tasty meal.
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This is definitely a change from the standard baked or non-baked cheesecake. This dish encases the cheesecake mixture in pastry and creates a tart-like dessert.
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This dish takes it’s inspiration from the Tortilla Espanola which is a traditional and signature dish of Spanish cuisine. An egg &
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Scones are such a versatile treat. They are great for breakfast, or a Sunday brunch or a nice treat for morning or afternoon tea.
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This is a wonderful variation to the more traditional oven baked lasagne. Soft, well cooked lasagne sheets are a beautiful pasta to serve with a bolognaise style sauce.
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A nice variation to the more traditional beef stroganoff. This dish uses chicken meatballs pan fried before being mixed with the wonderful creamy mushroom sauce.
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This is a fabulous cake to cook for a special occasion. Not only does it look impressive, it tastes amazing too!!
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Risotto dishes are a welcome item on our home menu. They are such a comforting meal and can be mixed with a variety of ingredients.
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This is a dish we have made countless times at our house. It is a real favourite when we have our family get-together dinners.
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This dessert is inspired by the classic French Lemon Tart. A rich sweet dessert with a lovely burst of citrus flavour, in each mouthful, from the beautiful lemony custard.
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I really enjoy recipes that make use of cajun seasoning. For me, this is a perfect blend of both spice and flavour.
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Whether you are looking for a easy, simple weeknight meal or perhaps a weekend lunch with friends, this is a great option using ingredients most people love.
This is a really simple to make pasta dish which provides a great tasty meal to satisfy the family. The chicken is well seasoned with cajun spice and combined with a lovely parmesan and cream sauce.
It’s really hard to find a better dessert than a beautiful, rich moist mud cake. This dessert allows you to create friand sized mud cakes which can be great for parties, when you have friends over or any other occasion really!
Pork Ribs served in a ‘sticky’ sauce are always a well received dinner in our household. Although ribs are generally messy to eat, they are just so tasty when marinated and served with a great sauce.
I really enjoy asian inspired Orange based and flavoured meals. This dish is a great example and will not disappoint. The chicken is initially cooked and browned in the wok before being added back into a wonderful sauce which is a great coconut milk / red curry blend which perfectly complements the orange juice and zest that is mixed through.
When I was growing up, pumpkin scones were always a favourite afternoon snack when you came home from school. However it has been many years (I stopped counting), since I had last eaten pumpkin scones.
Pastitsio is an Italian & Greek pasta dish that will typically use beef or lamb. There are, of course, many versions of this dish throughout the Mediterranean.
This is an easy to make and very tasty pork & pasta meal that is great for any weeknight. Italian pork sausage meat is the key ingredient for this dish.
This dish has many of the ingredients of the traditional Spanish Tortilla and certainly takes its inspiration from this wonderful offering.
White chocolate and raspberries are a fabulous combination for a range of treats such as friands and scones. They are also sensational in cakes and particularly mud cakes such as this one.
