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Baked Beef Meatballs

Back when it was hotter than the sun, the thought of cooking or being too near the hob or oven for too long was so off putting that I decided for the first time ever to bake meatballs rather than fry them. I also decided to ser

Tomato, rosemary and cream pasta

A really simple midweek meal with just handful of ingredients.

Ingredients:

2 cloves of garlic finely sliced
1 sprig Rosemary
1 heaped tbsp tomato purée
150ml double cream
Salt and pepper
Parmesan
Pa

Thali Tray Dinner

A big thank you to @mooliuk and @blandpr for sending us these Thali trays and delish dishes to try. @mooliuk introduces sizzling new summer line up with the exotic flavours of Kerala tasting plate and authentic Indian party snacks

Pork carnitas

I buy quite a few cookbooks. Not just any one though. There has to be something about them that draws me in and if it’s a good cookbook then there will be one or two recipes that I start cooking quite frequently and keep in my r

Walnut pesto casarecce with courgettes

Pesto and courgettes are a match made in heaven and something we have become very accustomed to eating in the summers. My father in law gives us bagfuls of courgettes in the summer from his allotment. Those I

Fig, basil and mozzarella bruschetta

Last week when it was hotter than the sun ☀️, I couldn’t cook in the heat so it was all about quick bites. I love bruschetta in all its many forms and figs are the very taste of summer for me, having eaten

Tuna Niçoise style- salad

I can’t be doing heavy duty cooking in this weather and if I’m honest, once it’s 30+, probably no cooking at all. My appetite also dwindles in this weather but I love cold watermelon, salads and an

Creme Fraiche Potato Salad

I really do like to eat as seasonally as possible and though we don’t eat potatoes that often (of course we love roast potatoes and chips and mash and a jacket) a potato salad is the sign of summer, a bbq or even a

Smokey bbq chicken wings

Just trying to mix up the marinades for the bbq and use the bbq as much as we can in this glorious sunshine ☀️. I love chicken wings on the bbq because they take less time than thighs and are great when you’re also gr

Hello everyone 👋🏻

I’ve had some new followers lately so thought I’d say hello and show my face since it’s been a while.

Firstly thanks for following these squares. I absolutely love cooking and nothing makes me happier than wh

Freekeh chicken soup

I know it’s sunny and it’s June but yesterday was a mixed up day of weather. Sun and cloud and pouring rain, so I thought I’d make a quick soup, with leftover roast chicken, carrots and celery, lemon, freekeh

Pizza Margherita 🍕

Makes two pizzas

Ingredients:

For the dough;
500g strong bread flour
7g dried active yeast
1 tsp sugar
300 ml lukewarm water
25ml olive oil
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup semolina

For the pizza sauce:

I use @ pizza sauce whi

Aubergine, nduja, mozzarella, basil & baby roma tomato tagliatelle

These kind of simple pastas, that just celebrate the ingredients in them are my favourite. Simple, delicious and quick to make after work. The baby Roma tomatoes from @muttipomo

An impromptu roast dinner

With the weather turning a bit yesterday I really fancied a roast. We haven’t had one in months, as I try to make the most of the nicer weather and bbq more and cook some lighter dishes but yesterday it went down a r

Chocolate Fudge Cake

Sometimes you just fancy some chocolate cake. This is one of those cakes that I know always turns out well and always goes down well. Finished with some edible pansies and marigolds purely because they looked good. It’s a

Blond ragù

I think if you’ve been following me even just for a week you’d know that I love pasta and it is an essential part of my life, no exaggeration. It has however taken me a long time to make a blond ragu. A lighter version

Fried egg, nduja and asparagus on sourdough

I’ve bought and eaten asparagus every week since it came into season, I really love it so much. It pairs perfectly with eggs and as I found out, also nduja. Everything can be fried in the same pan f

🇬🇧 British Sandwich Week 🥪

A big thanks to @bertinetbakery for sending me a selection of their sourdoughs and some @hellmannsuk mayonnaise, *pr products. I gave a long hard thought about what sandwich to make. I mean, the possibilities are endle

Crispy chicken tacos

This is such a tasty and easy recipe. We could’ve honestly eating a million of them! For the tortillas we used the mini piadinas I was sent from @crostamollica *pr products. The white worked better than whole-wheat so I w

Nduja, tomato and roasted red pepper pasta

I love keeping something like nduja in the fridge. Goes great with eggs, in a pasta and of course just slathered on toast. This a really simple pasta recipe using what’s left in the fridge.

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Thali Tray Dinner

A big thank you to @mooliuk and @blandpr for sending us these Thali trays and delish dishes to try. @mooliuk introduces sizzling new summer line up with the exotic flavours of Kerala tasting plate and authentic Indian party snacks

Pork carnitas

I buy quite a few cookbooks. Not just any one though. There has to be something about them that draws me in and if it’s a good cookbook then there will be one or two recipes that I start cooking quite frequently and keep in my r

Walnut pesto casarecce with courgettes

Pesto and courgettes are a match made in heaven and something we have become very accustomed to eating in the summers. My father in law gives us bagfuls of courgettes in the summer from his allotment. Those I

🇬🇧 British Sandwich Week 🥪

A big thanks to @bertinetbakery for sending me a selection of their sourdoughs and some @hellmannsuk mayonnaise, *pr products. I gave a long hard thought about what sandwich to make. I mean, the possibilities are endle

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