This tuscan pasta salad makes a perfect hearty dinner, side salad or lunch – or take along to your next barbecue or potluck. I love a hearty salad – I’m not saying your diet’s done for if you eat this,…
Oven Pork Steaks with Easy Satay Sauce
Oven pork steaks with a tasty satay sauce – an easy weeknight meal with an oriental twist. Pork chops and steaks are so convenient – just take them out of the packet, whack them under the grill and you’re away. They’re…
Poached Salmon with Miso Sauce
Why poached salmon with miso sauce? Well, we try to eat fish every Friday because it’s tasty, easy to cook and so good for you. I love poaching it because it doesn’t dry out so much that way. If you…
Couscous Salad with Feta and Chickpeas
This couscous salad with feta is an easy to make mouthful of summer. It’s Easter Monday today, and it’s rained so much one of our flower beds has developed a small lake. We can’t complain, though, it’s been snowing in…
Halloumi Salad with Bulghur Wheat
This halloumi salad is a hearty summer meal. Eat it when it’s gloriously hot and you could imagine you were in sunny Cyprus or Greece – or eat it when it’s raining, it’s cold and you wish you were there.…
Homemade Salsa with Roasted Red Peppers
This fresh, zingy homemade salsa is easy to make, and has plenty of sweetness with no added sugar. The perfect way to create low fat, dairy free tacos. Do you like roasting vegetables? It’s so easy and adds so much…
30 Minute Fish Chilli with Cod and Chorizo
Whilst I’m not the biggest fan of super spicy food, I love chilli the dish – chilli con carne, vegetable chilli, every variation you can think of. I even make one with chocolate. So why not fish chilli? We…
Carrot and Ginger Soup with Fried Tofu
This carrot and ginger soup will warm you up! What’s your winter been like? We’ve had snow several times this year, which makes it the coldest winter York has seen in a while. We haven’t had snow laying for a…
Slow Cooker Lamb Tagine with Apricots
This slow cooker lamb tagine is the perfect family friendly comfort food. You don’t need a tagine, or a taste for hot and spicy food, to enjoy this Moroccan inspired dish. Leave it to cook in the slow cooker all…
Cauliflower and Lentil Curry with Coconut Milk
This cauliflower and lentil curry is the perfect winter warmer, and great for introducing children to curry. I can say this with certainty as my 3 year old, who gobbled up curry when he was a baby, is going through…