Dinner made from store cupboard ingredients don’t need to be boring or overly complicated. Most of these recipes are made with basic ingredients with the addition of just a few fresh ingredients (i.e meat or veggies). Perfect for the family! Store Cupboard Dinners: How about some bread to go with the dinner Dessert Ideas

I’ve just done a quick count and I’ve found that we’ve got more than 20 curry recipes on Kitchen Sanctuary! I guess I just really like curry. We make curry at home at least once, and usually twice, a week. Quite often we’ll make our own curry paste, but sometimes we’ll use store-bought paste if we’re in a hurry (or just too hungry to wait!). Mae Ploy and Thai Taste (<–affiliate links) are both relatively hot but nicely authentic in flavour....

Jump to:📋 What do we need to make the best burgers? 🔪 How to make it 🍽️ What to serve it with 🍲 More fantastic Burger recipes The Ultimate Double Cheeseburger 💬 Reviews A proper meat-fest, this burger is just so good! Served up with a portion of homemade chips and extra special sauce for dipping, it makes a fantastic Friday night treat. It’s really important to go with 20% fat minced beef....

Jump to:📋 What Are Vegetarian Sausage Rolls Made Of? 🔪 How to make this vegetarian party food 📺 Watch how to make it 🍲 Some of my other favourite vegetarian party foods Vegetarian Sausage Rolls That Meat-Eaters Love Too! 💬 Reviews I believe the meat version or the meat-free sausage rolls should be quick and easy to prepare (no more than 10 mins of prep please!), yet they should still come out of the oven golden, flaky, crispy and way better then anything you’d get from the refrigerated aisle at the supermarket....

I can’t believe I’ve never shared my nougat recipe with you before. What was I thinking?? I discovered the technique when I was trying to make another recipe for popcorn marshmallow lollipops. It went completely wrong, and all the popcorn fell off the sticks whilst I was taking the photos, but I found that the melted marshmallows transformed into a denser (is that even a word?), less squishy form once cooled....

One pot dinners - I LOVE them! Especially speedy pasta versions. Perfect for getting dinner on the table before the kids start having an after-school hunger meltdown! This AMAZING Cajun Chicken pasta one pot has piles of Cajun chicken and chorizo all cooked together in a creamy tomato sauce. I like to add plenty of veg such a spinach, peppers and fresh tomatoes too. Because, hey, who doesn’t like getting one over on the kids and making them eat extra veg without even thinking about it 🙂 Start by frying onions in a little oil until softened....

Jump to:📋 What do we need? 🔪 How to make this Cranberry Sauce 🍽️ What to serve it with 📺 Watch how to make it 🍲 More fantastic Sauces and Dips Cranberry Sauce with Port 💬 Reviews I’ve made a few versions of cranberry sauce at home, and this version with orange and port is hands down the best!Just tangy enough, with a slight hit of zesty orange and a subtle richness from the port....

Currently daydreaming about holidays… One thing I’m guaranteed to buy at least three times whenever on holiday in Greece, is authentic Greek Gyros. Honestly, that juicy meat, refreshing tzatziki and handful of cheeky fries all wrapped up in bread heaven (aka Greek pita flatbreads) from that tiny little cafe down a quiet backstreet……. …..I think it’s better than anything you can get at a restaurant. Who needs to get dressed up and spend a fortune eating out, when you can sit on a plastic chair, eating Pork Gyros and sipping from a can of ice-cold Amstel!...

This is my attempt at not posting anything sweet during January. In my defence, I’ve come to the conclusion that life without cake is boring. I’m sure it’s far better for you to have a cake every now and then (like every other day, not once a month - that’d be ridiculous) than to have no cake. Cake = endorphins No cake = miserable Nicky (who ends up hiding in a cupboard anyway - eating chocolate chips from the baking shelf or that Christmas chocolate I found down the back of the sofa) So I’m sticking to cake....

Melty chocolate, smothered over fluffy, light, choco-banana cupcakes. I could eat A LOT of these things! I know spider’s webs are a bit cliche for halloween, but who cares. I’m all about the traditional (and easy!). I use my favourite moist chocolate banana cupcake recipe here (the same one I use for my chocolate banana sundae cupcakes). What do you need? Full recipe with ingredients and detailed steps in the recipe card at the end of this post....

Jump to:📋 What do we need? 🔪 How to make this turkey bolognese 🍽️ What to serve it with 📺 Watch how to make it 🍲 More leftover turkey recipes Leftover Turkey Bolognese 💬 Reviews After all the feasting at Christmas, I usually crave curry or pasta in the following days. Of course we still have loads of turkey left, so that’s my staple meat for the next few days....

So tell me, are you in the ‘I can’t eat chocolate for breakfast’ camp? Or are you in my camp? I’m not talking about a 1kg bar of Dairy Milk with my morning coffee (but who am I kidding here, I would so eat that for breakfast if someone put it in front of me). I’m talking about a little bit of dark chocolate, mixed into an oaty, peanut-ty cookie....

I love that it’s socially acceptable to eat cake at 10:30am and call it brunch. It makes my cake addiction almost sound posh 🙂 If you don’t eat it all at once, you’ll have enough left for afternoon tea too. Double posh! As a blogger and freelancer, I often find I have boundaries to work within - whether it’s a pasta recipe for a brand, an easy picnic recipe for a website or a seasonal recipe for Kitchen Sanctuary (usually start on these at least a couple of weeks before the season starts)....

So I may have been slightly drunk when I took these photos. Just being honest here….. A hot sunny day, the BBQ was out and I was testing out those prosecco popsicles and photographing (aka sampling) a Dark & Stormy or two. In my slightly tiddly (at that point) state, I decided it would be a great idea to mix the leftover prosecco with the spicy ginger beer from the cocktail....

How the heck did it get to Friday and I haven’t even posted a recipe yet this week? I’m so sorry guys! I started off with the income report - posted on Tuesday instead of Monday because it took me ages to write. Then I had every intention of posting a Thai chicken and rice one-pot meal on Wednesday or Thursday. However, when it came down to it, I just couldn’t post it....

A really quick and super easy recipe for you today. You might know that I absolutely adore Thai food - be it Thai Sweet Potato Skins, Thai fishcakes, Thai chicken or this Thai Prawn Salad. One of my absolute favourites is a simple Thai green curry though. Although I often make sauces from scratch, Thai green curry paste is something I generally buy. They vary quite a lot in heat, flavour and calories - but my favourite is the Thai Taste one....

Jump to:📋 What do we need for the slow-cooking stage? 📋 What do we need for the sticky glaze? 📺 Watch how to make it 🍽️ What to serve them with 🍲 More fantastic slow-cooked recipes Sweet and Sticky Slow-Cooked Short Ribs 💬 Reviews Slow-cooked until the meat is falling off the bone, then pan fried to crisp up the edges and given a sticky coating right at the last minute....

Jump to:📋 What do we need? 🔪 How to make this White Chilli Chicken 🍽️ What to serve it with 🍲 More fantastic Spicy Chicken recipes White Chilli Chicken Recipe 💬 Reviews Regular chilli con carne appears on our menu at least once a week. Chris is the Chilli Con Carne master, and frankly I was getting a bit jealous.So I decided to make my own white chicken chilli version!...

Crispy, gooey, cheesy, salty, moreish. Yes all good words to describe these ham hock croquettes and things that I like to eat in general. Have you had ham hock before? I first had it a few years ago when I spotted it at the deli counter looking like a delicious cross between pulled pork and baked ham. I cooked it into a pie (something like this chicken and ham pie if I remember correctly) and I was sold....

Steak without sauce? not in our house… I’m not the biggest fan of blue cheese usually, but made into a sauce for steak? That’s a whole other story.It’s a strong, tangy cheese with a distinct punchy flavour, that when melted into the cream, makes this sauce so luscious and creamy. Even the kids love it. Made in less than ten minutes, you can also have this as a dip with potato wedges or over pasta, it’s so versatile and delicious....