This recipe has been in the making for quite a while, with many disastrous attempts to get it right. The natural stretch in bread dough comes from the gluten, so simply substituting a gluten free flour isn’t going to work. Trust me, I know. The secret – xanthan gum. This isn’t something that is readily…
Category: Family Favourite
Steak and ale pie
Who doesn’t love a good pie, with soft meat in an unctuous gravy? As the cold nights roll in dust off your slow cooker and tuck in. Serves 6 For the filling: 1.5kg beef shin, diced into chunks Glug of olive oil 1 onion finely chopped 2 carrots, peeled and diced 2 celery sticks, diced…
Pork Stroganoff
This is another wonderfully simple recipe, packed full of flavour, making it as much at home on a dinner party menu as it is on the family table. Pork fillet is naturally very lean, making this dish easily adaptable for those of you trying to follow a healthier lifestyle. Simply omit the butter and go…
Lucknowi lamb with spiced risotto, mint and coriander chutney and raita.
Lucknow, a large city in northern India, is the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh. This aromatic Lucknowi curry paste is the perfect accompaniment to sweet lamb, served with a simple spiced risotto. The chutney adds heat and piquancy, tempered by the cooling raita. This wonderful Asian dish is a definite crowd pleaser and I…
Wild garlic pesto
I feel a bit of a fraud calling this a recipe, as it really is one of the easiest things that you can make. I don’t weigh or measure any of the ingredients, adding more as I blitz according to taste and texture. But as the wild garlic season draws to a close it is…
Lamb Puttanesca
It’s been another busy week in the kitchen, as I prepared to enter the cookery demonstration tent, alongside GBBO winner Sophie Faldo at for the Weald Country show in Essex. The brief; to create a scrumptious dish in under 50 minutes. No pressure then! I was confident that my recipe for lamb Puttanesca wouldn’t fail…
Hunger Pangs 