12 Important Basics of Cooking
Here are twelve pieces of cooking advice that, if followed, will surely make cooking easier and the results better.
15 Easy Ways to Improve a Bland Meal!
Here are my suggestions …
Melted Onion Panade – delicious!
The other day I cooked and ate a strange and marvellous thing; a panade which is generally deemed to be part of the soup family but also, I think, is related to the bread and butter pudding clan, a bit…
Hummus & Other Bean Dips + how not to tell lies!
Hummus-like dishes are a great way of using up all kinds of leftover legumes but it is just not right to actually call all these dips, spreads and purées “hummus” as this means chickpea in Arabic (حمّص) so you would…
How to Make The Best Yorkshire Puddings Ever ~ for pennies!
I keep seeing all sorts of tricky recipes for Yorkshire puddings and yet the way I make them is a doddle – a quick, easy, amazingly cheap and delicious doddle so I thought I ought to get it out there.
Food Waste in the Home ~ just stop it willya!
Apparently Britons throw away an average of six meals a week in food waste, how stupid, let's stop!
Windfalls and Roasted Apple Clafouti
My friend Diane gave us a bag of windfalls but looking at them when I got home I didn’t fancy peeling them – fiddly little buggers! So this is what I did ...
How to Make Apple Sauce and Great Ways to Enjoy It
Got lots of cooking apples? Make apple sauce - recipe and 16 ideas for using it here.
How to Organise your Fridge ~ Essential Tips
Organise your fridge with these useful tips and guidelines and get the most of your food and leftovers - and your storage space.
Living Lettuce ~ Have your Lettuce and Eat it Too!
Have you ever bought a living lettuce from the supermarket – and then after a few salad days it looks like this? Well if you stick it outside in the sun (if such a thing should occur) and water it…
