We eat a lot of rice, so I find myself making it at least a few times a week. This method of how to cook rice has been tested hundreds if not, thousands, of times. It’s the way I’ve been making it for decades, for me, its the only way I cook rice. Do you rinse the rice? stir it? drain it after cooking? I’ve got all of your questions answered!...
Oh and we’re not stopping there. This ravioli is then tossed in warm salsa and served with soured cream. And whoa! it’s so good!! I don’t often make homemade pasta, but it’s actually pretty fool-proof (always a good thing in my case). I usually find it therapeutic - kneading the dough and rolling it through the pasta machine. I made it with the kids this time though, so slightly less therapeutic and quite a lot messier....
Jump to:📋 What do we need? 🔪 How to make Spaghetti with Garlic Breadcrumbs 🍲 More fantastic Pasta recipes 20 Minute Garlic Bread Spaghetti 💬 Reviews Before you say it, I know what you’re thinking. Bread mixed with pasta? that’s a bit of a carb overload isn’t it? When the recipe idea popped into my head, I was immediately reminded of a cartoon my kids loved when they were little - Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom....
Cauliflower pizza crust? Not bad. I’ve yet to perfect this. Coriander cauliflower rice (with thai prawns)? Sooo good Creamy cauliflower soup? AM-A-ZING And now, we have crispy, garlicky, creamy arancini. Ok, hands up, they’re not perfect little spheres. They probably could have been if I’d have to chosen to fry these like regular rice arancini, however, these are baked. Which means way less oil. In fact this whole batch only uses 1 tbsp of olive oil and 40 squirts of fry light....
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Chris and I LOVE cooking a good curry. We also love all the Indian-style starters/appetisers too. And what goes really well with all of that? Thats right, Mango Chutney! This recipe is actually another one of Chris’s creations. He made a batch whilst I was out one day and when I came back the house smelled AMAZING!. If you like curries and Indian-style cooking then I definitely recommend getting some ghee....
Chicken Madras is our favourite curry and we often just serve it with plain boiled rice, but if we want something extra special, this is where this onion fried rice comes in. So long as you have some boiled rice already cooked (we always keep some stashed in the freezer), it can be made really quickly - while your curry is simmering away. You can swap out the ghee for sunflower oil if you haven’t got any in but I find the ghee adds to the overall flavour of the onion fried rice....
Fluffy jumpers, thick socks, a blanket on the sofa, listening to the rain at night when you’re tucked up cosy in bed, and slow-cooked, make-your-kitchen-smell-amazing dinners. Yeah, I’m so ready for Autumn. To be fair, I could eat a casserole in the middle of Summer (have you seen my summer casserole? yes, it really is a thing), but this hearty Guinness casserole, with thick, rich gravy and fall apart beef, all serve up with mashed potatoes and buttered greens is definitely winter food....
This is my happy dance granola. Nuts, cranberries and oats taken to a whole new level with the addition of mini coconut macaroons. I love this stuff so much that when Chris and I went away to a fancy hotel this weekend, I was pining for my granola rather than the delicious breakfast selection on offer. As sad as it sounds, I even tried to put together a makeshift version at the buffet bar - using the hotel granola plus nuts, fruit, yogurt and honey....
It’s hot and I just want to sit in the garden all day and drink iced coffee. I had so much work I wanted to do yesterday – mostly trying to get ahead on a few recipe posts because the kids are off school next week. In the end, I managed about 5% of what I set out to do. If it was freelance work, with a deadline agreed with someone else, it would be a different story, but when I’ve got myself to answer too?...
Arrghhh! How did it to November already?? Lewis mentioned earlier this week that there are only 7 more weekends until Christmas. What??? I still haven’t put my flip-flops away from Summer yet. After being faced with the reality that I’m going to have to start thinking about Christmas trees, house decorations, food and presents pretty rapidly, I decided to get going with my first festive tradition - the Christmas cake....
Served as part of a picnic, for an appetizer or as a hearty lunch (the kids especially love them with baked beans), these sausage rolls can be served warm, fresh from the oven, or cold straight from the fridge. A word of advice though - be sure to make enough. Everybody in my family needs to ’test’ at least 2 each (so that’s 8 gone), then they like a minimum of 3 each for lunch....
Who’d have thought that halloumi and peach would pair so well. The soft sweet juiciness of summer-ripe peaches is one of my favourite fruits. I remember holidaying in Turkey about 7 years ago and the local market sold the biggest peaches I’d ever seen. Bigger than a baseball! They we just the most luscious things ever, and we had them for breakfast most days. In fact I think that’s where I got the idea for my cream cheese, honey and nectarine toastie....
No bunnies were harmed in the making of this dinner! I was unsure whether to share this one with you as it’s not the prettiest meal I’ve ever cooked up. But it just tastes so gooood! If you’ve never heard of Bunny chow, it’s actually a South-African fast food consisting of half a loaf of bread filled with meat (again not rabbit) or vegetarian curry. One of my office buddies (hey Shaun!...
My mum used to call me a mash-oholic when I was little. Out of a whole roast dinner, it was the thing I most looked forward to. I could happily ignore the meat and veg, and just pour a huge ladle of my mum’s delicious gravy over my mash to slurpily enjoy what she called mashed potato soup. As I got a little older and started cooking in the kitchen myself (we’re talking maybe 11 or 12 years old now), one of my favourite ‘meals’ to make myself was mashed potato with bacon bits, finely sliced raw onion and gravy....
Oh how I love this recipe! My inspiration for this comes from our family holiday to California a couple of years ago. Me, Chris, the kids and my folks spent 16 days travelling from San Francisco down to San Diego. It really was a dream holiday with stops in Carmel, Morro Bay, Santa Monica, Vegas, the Grand Canyon and Disney of course. We also got to spend time with family that we have over there, and Chris got to drive this baby for a week too:...
The half-term holidays are over and what a week it’s been! Blazing sunshine every day. And you know what that means… BBQs, paddling pools, slightly sun burnt shoulders, listening to people complain that it’s too hot (psk!!), a truckful of ice cream for the kids, and these prosecco ice lollies for the grown-ups. Oh yeah, I had three of these on Sunday - amongst a couple of other boozy type recipes I was making for the blog (how much do I love my job!...
You know when you bite into a dessert, and that first tastes means you suddenly just want everything and everyone else to go away so you can luxuriate in every little morsel? So you can focus 100% of your attention of that perfect moment of enjoyment? That is what this Raspberry and Almond Pithivier does to you. Juicy, jammy raspberries, encased in soft almond frangipane, further encased in buttery golden pastry....
After eating this, can you believe that Chris (with a large smile on his face) actually said these words: “I love you more when you make me pie”. Putting aside the tongue-in-cheek emotional blackmail, I’ve just got to say yum and double yum. No it doesn’t come with a couple of horns sticking out like your Desperate Dan classic, but it’s still a damn good meat and potato pie. This is no lightweight ‘pastry lid’ pie....
To all of you non-UK folk out there - have you ever heard of a Bakewell tart? Living in the UK (in fact i’m only about 30 miles from the town of Bakewell) I’m lucky enough to get my fair share of Bakewell tart. I’ve heard that you can’t get it in the USA! Oh my goodness! If I was ever going to emigrate, forget the English teabags and sausage rolls - my suitcase would be full of Bakewell tarts....
