Jump to:📋 What do we need? 🔪 Watch how to make it 🍽️ What to serve it with 🍲 More fantastic Curries Lamb Bhuna Recipe 💬 Reviews The word ‘Bhuna’ refers to the cooking method of this dish, and means ’to fry’ or ‘fried’. Usually the spices are fried gently, before adding the meat. Originating in Bengal, Bhuna is a hot curry, and it doesn’t come swimming in sauce. It’s usually a thick sauce, with just enough to cling to the meat....

If you love eggs for breakfast, and you’re a fan of everything spicy, then this shakshuka is for you! Filling and satisfying, yet pretty low on the calories. Ha ha - like I ever really take notice of that when I’m making recipes. Have you seen my brisket sandwich with saute potatoes and coleslaw coming in at a little under 1200 calories? (It’s delicious by-the-way 😋). Low calorie or not, this is a great weekend brunch....

This post was written in collaboration with The Saucy Fish Co. You’ll need to get your sunglasses on for this one guys. A serious rainbow of colour to brighten up a miserable Autumn day! Do you cook with beetroot? I think the pickled version scares a lot of people off (personally I love it served with cottage pie or as part of a cheese and beetroot sandwich!). But the raw version that you peel and cook yourself?...

Who can say no to freshly baked scones with a nice cup of tea? Not me, not Chris and certainly not our kids! We delighted the kids when they came back from a trip to Wales with their grandparents with a gorgeous tea party, overflowing with finger sandwiches (yep, we went there with cucumber sandwiches, egg & cress and cheese & beetroot), cheesecake, macarons, and these homemade scones. The feast was all served on tableware from Portmeirion - who sponsored this post, and I LOVE how it all turned out....

I’m sitting here in my woolly socks and comfy workout clothes (although I have no intention of working out today) with a large cup of tea and the underfloor heating on. We had a massive rain shower earlier and Lewis came back from football absolutely drenched and a bit shivery, so I made us an early lunch of homemade soda bread and lentil & cheddar soup……. I LOVE AUTUMN! There’s something about the changing of the seasons that always creates a little buzz of excitement in my belly....

I know ther’s more to life than sandwiches. But right now, I’m finding it hard to get my mind off the subject. I made this BLT a couple of weeks ago when some friends came round the other day, I meant to take a few photos of it there and then for the blog, but it accidentally got eaten (ahem). So I made it the next day, along with the genius idea of making a backup BLT in case of BLT related emergencies....

This post is sponsored by the happy egg.co All opinions are my my own. Stuffed mushrooms on Wednesday, followed by a vegetarian noodle dish today. Nicky what’s happening!! I’ll have to make meaturduckballizza next, just to convince you I’ve not gone vegetarian. If you don’t have to sit through kid’s TV shows like I do (ok, I like some of them really), the meaturduckballizza is Hank’s - from The Thunderman’s - dream dish....

Honestly, right now I could eat a bucket of melted chocolate. In fact last night, after finding a 200g bar of dairy milk in one of our many kitchen boxes, I melted it down, then me, Chris and the kids hunched around, dipping anything edible we could find into that bowl of sweet, calorific heaven. Biscuits, satsumas, marshmallows, raspberries, pretzels, you name it. For the kids, it was a fun and greedy treat....

Jump to:📋 What do we need? 🔪 How to make bang bang sauce 🍽️ What to serve it with 📺 Watch how to make it 🍲 More fantastic Sauces Bang Bang Sauce Recipe 💬 Reviews Made famous by The Bonefish Grill in Florida in their Bang Bang Shrimp recipe, this is a sauce makes anything bite-size and crispy taste AMAZING! Probably the easiest recipe on the site - it simply calls for mixing 4 ingredients together to get the most delicious creamy, spicy dipping sauce....

This post was created in collaboration with Prestige Cookware Hope you guys have had a glorious Easter Week! We spent a good chunk of it in Wales, with no Wi-fi or phone signal (unless you count standing on one leg in one particular spot of the caravan with the phone pointed in a very precise direction, and not breathing - lest that one bar needed to send a text message disappears)....

Now this is what I call vegetarian food for carnivores. They’re so good, it was almost enough to persuade me to buy that deep-fat-fryer that Chris wants us to get. The lure of creamy, crispy delicious fried foods is calling me, with a little ’no don’t do it’ voice coming from the healthy part of my brain that loves the smoothies and the soups. I think a fryer may well drag me away from my ’everything in moderation’ motto, and over to deep frying anything-and-everything (I can see myself now, frying up Mars bars like I’ve heard they do in Scotland)....

Definitely more homely looking than the Ratatouille recipe served up on the movie, but oh my, it’s very very tasty! That ratatouille in itself is a tasty meal, but I still haven’t got out of the mind-set of thinking of veg as a side dish. I’m training myself slowly. So I decided to go for some lovely salty feta to add a bit of tang. Cold feta just wouldn’t have been right, so I gave it a breadcrumb coating and shallow fried it until it was golden and crispy on the outside, and just slightly soft on the inside....

Rich, buttery shortbread biscuits filled with jam…… That is a jar of love. Honestly, what would you prefer? a) A little fluffy teddy bear hugging a red heart with some slushy words written on it b) Some kind of ill-fitting, slightly dodgy undergarment(s) c) A jar of lovingly made bite-sized biscuits Yes I know what I’d choose too. I’ve got to admit, Chris and I don’t really do valentines day....

Crispy gnocchi is the BEST way to eat it in my opinion. I love the golden crispy exterior, plus those extra crispy bits in the pan. For this recipe we fry up the gnocchi first, then brown plenty of butter, before adding lots of sage leaves (don’t worry, they mellow during frying, so they won’t overpower the dish), garlic and lemon. In my testing stage I also tried adding a good helping of parmesan towards the end of cooking, but I found it simply doesn’t need it (not often I say that about cheese)....

What a salad! Substantial enough for dinner, this Hawaiian Chicken Salad is filling and soooo delicious! I can’t get enough of grilled fruit, and I think pineapple might just be one of my favourites. I did this one on the griddle pan in the kitchen, but I fully intend to be grilling all manner of fruits on the barbecue this summer. We had our first BBQ of the season on Sunday, and the weather was absolutely blazing hot!...

Jump to:📋 What do we need? 📺 Watch how to make it 🍲 More fantastic no-bake cheesecakes Individual Berry No Bake Cheesecakes 💬 Reviews I’m not big on baked cheesecakes - the extra time, effort and finger crossing (so the top doesn’t crack) is usually enough to make me stick to the no-bake version. Plus no-bake cheesecakes taste amazing! This time I’m making individual mason jar cheesecakes for four reasons: 👩‍🍳PRO TIP You can also swap the digestives for hobnobs for an extra special treat (sorry my US friends - I believe you don’t have hobnobs over there?...

Fortunately Chris is amazing at getting me to edge out of my comfort zone on occasion (he’ll be supporting me when I’m on stage at the Big Feastival in August), and I always feel great afterwards, but then I’m happy to get straight back into my little cozy office or the sanctuary of my kitchen and hide again. But…… that means I can share more recipes with you guys! This Salmon Sushi Bowl is the second recipe I’ve shared from my book (the first being my Chimichurri Steak Salad) I’ll probably end up sharing 3 or 4 altogether over the next few months, but I wanted to share this one with you whilst the weather is still lovely and warm....

Honestly, I could eat these things like popcorn. A big bowl of crispy sautéed potatoes with a sprinkling of Maldon salt. Now THAT is what I call a great movie snack. Maybe a few little dips - mayo, mustard, sriracha…I’m totally doing that. If you did want to eat them like a normal person however, then they are really great as a side dish for steak and fish, or creamy chicken dishes too....

How about preparing this Stuffed apples with crumble topping for a weekend breakfast? You could top with a few oats, swap the custard for yoghurt - or just go ahead and have custard for breakfast. I won’t tell. I made this pud as a little treat that probably should have been enjoyed sat at the dining table over a leisurely chat. In all honesty, they didn’t even make it out of the kitchen....

I adore sprouts! If I could have them with every roast dinner I would. Generally I just steam them and serve them up. They’ve got to be perfectly cooked though - with a tiny bit of bite (no mushy sprouts here please). I even had sprouts with my risotto the other day. It couldn’t be helped, we’d bought over 2kgs of sprouts for these recipes, so we had a few left over that needed to be eaten ?...