Burgers are great when feeding a crowd, you can ask people to customise their burgers as they please, try adding extras like crispy bacon, sliced avocado, sautéed mushrooms or a fried egg. It’s a really fun recipe for a Friday or Saturday night, you can prep all the toppings and the patties then cook to…
Month: April 2016
Slow-Cooked Beef & Vegetable Ragu
Here’s another recipe to help you hit your 5-a-day. If you can get used to incorporating as many veggies as possible into your meals then you’ll be well on the way to a healthier diet. Most importantly you’ll be helping your body to stay at peak condition and in turn keeping anxiety as well as…
Salty & Sweet Millionaires Rocky Road
This recipe is definitely not for the faint hearted, in fact It’s best not to even think about the calorie content! You’ll only be able to manage a small square anyway leaving you with the lovely job of making 15 other people happy with a slice too! It’s a lot of fun to make and…
Sweet Potato Fish Pie
I love fish pie; to me it’s the ultimate in comfort food. Creamy mashed potatoes and delicate flaking fish scented with fresh dill and just a hint of lemon, all baked until golden, crunchy and molten hot. My tongue has had its fair share of fish pie induced burns, I can never wait until it’s…
Chicken, Chorizo & Roasted Vegetable Tray Bake
I’m sharing this recipe for a few reasons, the first is the taste – it really is lovely – the combination of the smoky and sweet chorizo alongside the fresh herbs and creamy, melting mozzarella is divine. The vegetables really soak up all of the delicious flavours; the benefits of cooking all in one pan….
Strawberry & Vanilla Pop-Tarts
Food can make us feel nostalgic for certain periods in our life, a smell or taste can bring back vivid memories or evoke feelings from days gone by. Our perception of events can alter dramatically over time. We may recall a holiday as being the best week of our life, despite our suitcase not turning…
Berry, Coconut & Chia Oat Muffins
Not only are these muffins a fun, relaxing bake to make they’re packed full of lots of super healthy ingredients too! It’s a double win when you can combine the pleasure of baking with something that’s good for you. When you mix the batter it will probably remind you of really thick porridge so it’s…
Ultimate Cheese Toastie
I like Tuesdays because I have hypnotherapy. A treatment that I have found to be an incredibly valuable tool for managing my anxiety. I wont lie, I was a little dubious before my first session, it was actually my partner that encouraged me to try. A couple of people he knew had benefitted from a…
Homemade Pizza & Garlic Bread
When it comes to pizza, which would be my specialist subject if I was ever on mastermind, you can get technical with sourdough starters, cold fermentation and wood ovens but this is a perfectly lovely, simple and easy recipe to get you started. If you keep a well-stocked cupboard you should have all the ingredients…
Chocolate, Strawberry & Vanilla Drippy Cake
I love making birthday cakes. For me the enjoyment is twofold, firstly the pleasure gained from making the cake, which if you take it slowly and tackle it piece by piece can be also very therapeutic and relaxing. Secondly the gratification that comes from seeing how happy you’ve made someone else. It would take the…
A Giant Cupcake
Many of the projects I take on with my job involve a great deal of focus on what food looks like. The job of a food stylist is to create those beautiful images we salivate over in magazines, websites and increasingly social media accounts. You work alongside a prop stylist and photographer to create gorgeous…
Toast Toppers
Eating alone, in fact being alone, was something I really used to struggle with. I felt that if it was only me at home it wasn’t worth making any effort and I’d often let myself go without dinner. Not only was that really unhealthy it would leave me feeling hungry, frustrated and tired- especially the…
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