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Savoury Oat Bake makes an easy and satisfying vegetarian main course, packed with vegetables, nutritious oats, nuts, seeds, plus cheese and eggs. Serve with salad or cooked veggies, plus a baked potato if you like, for a healthy and surprisingly delicious dinner. Leftovers are great …Read more
Hash Brown Waffles are golden brown on the outside, soft, and tender within. So easy, but so delicious, enjoy them for breakfast or brunch with eggs, bacon or sausage, or as a side to your favourite meals. I use my mini waffle maker to cook …Read more
This Chilli Bean Cheese Toastie is inspired by the flavours of a Tex-Mex chilli but is put together in minutes. The warmly spicy bean, corn, onion, and melting cheese filling is a great contrast to the buttery, crunchy and crispy golden bread. Perfect on its …Read more
Ham & Cheese Puff Pastries are warm pockets of flaky, buttery pastry, filled with a deliciously savoury filling of cooked ham and cheese flavoured with mustard, a little onion, plus fresh herbs. I love larger ones as a main meal with salad or veggies. But they’re …Read more
Sausage, Sage & Onion Cheese Scones just might be the ultimate savoury scone. Inspired by the flavours of sausage stuffing, there’s temptingly browned sausage meat, softly sauteed red onion plus a subtle herbiness. Put those in a classic cheese scone with a generous amount of …Read more
Easy Cheese Straws are a crispy and light, flaky, cheesy delight! Perfect as a party nibble with drinks or to eat alongside soups, they really are easy. Simply grate butter and cheese into seasoned flour and mix with iced water to make a dough. Chill …Read more
Homemade Cheese Crackers are simplicity itself to make but taste incredible. With just a handful of everyday ingredients (flour, salt, pepper, butter, water, Cheddar and Parmesan cheeses, plus optional garlic powder) you can have crispy, delicious, cheesy crackers in little more than half an hour. …Read more
Homemade Ricotta, creamy, delicious, and so easy, can be used in exactly the same way as store bought – for both savoury and sweet dishes. All you need are TWO ingredients: whole milk plus vinegar to split it into curds and whey. I also add …Read more
Cheese & Apple Scones are lovely as a snack or with soups and salads. Tender pieces of sweet-tart Bramley apple are combined in a savoury scone with mature Cheddar and Parmesan cheese. And who doesn’t like tangy apple with cheese? Delicious served warm, split, and …Read more
Cheese & Chilli Cornbread is an easy quick bread. No ordinary cornbread, my version has Cheddar cheese, sweetcorn kernels, tangy pickled chillies as well as chilli flakes. Light, fluffy and so tasty, it’s great as a side to chillies, soups, salads, bbq and other meals. …Read more
Cheese & Chorizo Quick Bread is ‘quick’ because it gets its rise from self-raising flour and eggs. That means no kneading and no proofing. You just mix up the ingredients in around ten minutes, then bake. With tangy Cheddar cheese, smoky chorizo, plus chives, this …Read more
Mediterranean Oat Bake combines feta, roasted peppers, courgette, sun-dried tomatoes, herbs, and olives with nutritious rolled oats, eggs, nuts, and seeds to make the centrepiece of a delicious vegetarian main course. Chopping the fresh vegetables small, and supplementing them with jarred and tinned goodies, means …Read more
Orange Curd is a sweet, rich, and creamy preserve with the tang of citrus. A variation on the more common lemon curd, it’s quick and easy to make at home. All you need are oranges, a dash of lemon juice, eggs, butter, and sugar. Eat …Read more
Cheese & Bacon Loaf is a quick bread made with self-raising flour and eggs rather than yeast. That means no kneading, no proving, and minimal hands-on time. Just mix and bake. Soft, fluffy and cheesy inside, studded with little pieces of smoky bacon, the outer …Read more
Cheese and Onion Soup features a classic flavour pairing in a simple, lightly creamy, cheesy broth. But simple doesn’t mean dull. Top each bowl with bubbling, golden brown cheese toasts and you’ll see what I mean. MAKE A MEAL OF CHEESE I …Read more
Cheese Soda Bread, with no kneading, proving time or yeast required, is a super-quick, soft, and moist cheesy loaf. It’ll take you less than 10 minutes to put together and bakes in half an hour. If you’ve never made soda bread before, or if you’ve …Read more
Pea & Pancetta Pasta is ideal when you need a filling and tasty meal in double-quick time. In fact, this recipe is so fast you’ll need to put the pasta on to cook before you start on the simple sauce which is inspired by Rome’s …Read more
Watermelon Salad, flavoured with mint and lime, was made for hot summer days. Refreshing, quick, and incredibly good. Joining juicy cubes of fresh watermelon are crunchy diced cucumber plus a little red onion and lime zest. A simple olive oil and lime juice dressing brings …Read more
Savoury biscuits and crackers, for cheese or other tasty toppings, are easy to make at home. And with so many shop-bought packets containing environmentally disastrous palm oil, being able to rustle up your own biscuits and crackers is a real boon. Perfect with a snack …Read more
Marinated Roasted Peppers are even more delicious than regular roasted peppers. Here they take up the spicy flavour of the marinade which becomes infused with the peppers’ charred smokiness. Temper that spicy, smoky heat with creamy yet tangy goat’s cheese for a perfect pairing. Served …Read more
Asparagus Risotto is one of the joys of Spring. But my version takes it to the super-luxury level with a golden, melting grilled goat’s cheese topping. The season for British asparagus is short. So I make the most of it with generous amounts of the …Read more
Wild Garlic Butter is a wonderful, seasonal condiment. You need just two ingredients to make it, and one of those is absolutely FREE! Wild garlic is found in most of Britain from March to June. And with its distinctive aroma, it’s easy for foraging beginners to …Read more
Cheese & Chive Pancakes, a savoury version of Scotch pancakes or drop scones, make a great breakfast, lunch, or snack. The simple batter of flour, milk and an egg plus mature Cheddar, Parmesan and fresh chives, is whisked together in seconds. Drop spoonfuls onto a …Read more
Cheese, Chorizo & Chive Scones are the latest incarnation of my popular light and fluffy cheese scones. Like the original Very Cheesy Cheese Scones, there’s plenty of tangy Cheddar in there. But a generous amount of smoky chorizo plus fresh chives means these are packed …Read more
Cheese, Smoky Bacon & Spring Onion Scones take the classic cheese scone to a new level. Light and fluffy, they have a generous amount of cheese plus nuggets of smoky bacon and savoury spring onion flavour. Eat warm with butter as a snack, for afternoon …Read more