Category: Mains

  • Chilli-Con-Carne in a rush

    A great quick Chilli recipe – if you have time, use the Chilli Deluxe recipe! Ingredients: 1 tin kidney beans, drained 1 tin chopped tomatoes. If you can throw in some whole tomatoes that have ben roughly chopped it will improve the texture. 500g lean minced beef Vegetable oil 1 large onion, chopped ½-1 tsp…

  • Chilli-Con-Carne Deluxe

    The Ingredients: 1 large onion or 2 banana shallots, chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 red chilli deseeded or keep half with seeds if you like it spicy 2 sprigs of thyme, leaves picked and roughly chopped Olive oil, for frying 500g good quality beef mince 1 tsp ground cumin 2 tsp sweet paprika…

  • Ultimate Sausage Casserole

    Ingredients 8 Cumberland Sausages Onion (one large) Garlic (2 cloves) Peppers Mushrooms Butter beans (2x400g tins) Tinned Tomatoes (1 tin) Assorted herbs Chicken stock (300ml) The method: Grill the sausages and put to one side. Brown the onion with the garlic in a large casserole dish. When the onions are ready, throw in the tomatoes, chicken…

  • Yorkshire Puddings

    You can also use this recipe to make amazing toad-in-the-hole to feed two hungry people. Pour the batter into a hot ceramic dish (with hot oil) and then arrange the 6 toads (bangers) in the middle. Start off in a very hot (230) oven for 10 minutes and then turn down to ~190 for the…

  • thai style prawns

    The Ingredients: 100g wide rice noodlesr 1 tblspn veg oil 1 finely chopped garlic clove 2 finely choppedd lemongrass stalks 1 egg beaten, seasoned. 150g raw peeled prawns 1 tblspn fish sauce 1 teaspoon soft brown sugar 2 tblspn soy sauce large handful of roasted peanuts coarsley chopped beansprouts (handful) coriander leaves to dress. The…

  • Carbonara

    This is such a simple dish that everyone should be able to cook it from memory! You can add cream or oil if you want a looser texture / more sauce. Onion or garlic has no place in this dish. And I can’t mention this sort of elitist ingredient gate keeping without posting this amazing…

  • Slow roasted lamb with butterbeans

    This takes a while to cook, but it’s definitely worth it when the lamb is falling off the bone and melting in your mouth! Serve with crushed new potatoes or mash and fried Greens. Serves 6 The Ingredients: 1 shoulder of lamb, bone in (about 2.2kg) Salt and pepper 1 head of garlic, cloves separated…

  • Chicken, Red Wine & Bacon Casserole

    The Casserole is named after the dish it is cooked in that shares the same name and harks back to the 1950s, but this type of cooking goes back much further with loads of variations from Lancashire Hotpot and Shepherds Pie to Cassoulet and Timballo. Ingredients ( 4 drumsticks 4 wings 4 tbsp olive oil…