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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The combination of chicken and lemon is always a winner and provides a very tasty base on which to create a meal.
Cashew Chicken is a classic popular Chinese dish that is so easy to make at home. A quick and easy to make dinner full of flavour that is all cooked in a wok.
This is a subtle peppermint flavour double layered chocolate cake. The second chocolate delight comes from the white chocolate whipped cream icing that separates the layers and tops the cake.
It’s hard to resist a baked dish of creamy scalloped potatoes with a beautiful crunchy golden top. This rich scalloped potatoes dish is a classic comfort food.
When you are looking for a weeknight meal that does not need a lot of effort, can be made quickly with few cooking steps, however provides a tasty result, then this is a meal you should definitely try.
This is a great variation to the wonderful cannoli ‘tube’ desserts you see in bakeries and cafes. With a baked biscuit base to provide a nice soft crunch, the cannoli filling is a beautiful mixture of mascarpone cheese, whipped cream, vanilla and cinnamon.
Honey Garlic Chicken is a really easy dish to make with very few ingredients and very little effort required. The main time is the passive wait while the chicken marinates.
Pasta bakes are a favourite in our house and this is a terrific version mixing tortellini and Italian pork sausage with the casing removed to simply use the mince.
Combining pumpkin and gnocchi is not something I have done previously, or even really thought about. They just haven’t seemed to me to be ingredients that naturally mix together.
These Orange glazed scones provide a nice cross between a biscuit and cake. They have a texture that is dense but also soft and crumbly.
