My Slowcooker Veal, Red wine & Portabello Mushroom Casserole served on potato, sweet potato and carrot mash…l 500g Heart Smart diced veal coated in plain flour seasoned with sea salt and cracked pepper 250ml Merlot Tin of Diced tomatoes 500ml Beef Stock 2 large Portabello mushrooms sliced 1 tuscan red onion sliced Brown off the meat in some extra virgin olive oil. Add the onion and saute. Add the remaining ingredients and slow cook until the meat is tender and … Read More
Feta & Pesto stuffed Chicken Breast wrapped in Bacon
Cut a pocket into your chicken breast. Stuff with some homemade marinated Feta and pesto. ( I used my homemade basil and walnut) Fold and wrap in a slice of bacon. Secure with a toothpick. Bake in a 180 oven with some jacket veges.
Chicken, Chroizo & Bacon Pasta bake with Cherry Tomato Sauce
Saute a diced red onion, with some crushed garlic and sliced mushrooms in a splash of olive oil. Add finely sliced chorizo and diced chicken. Fry until golden. Add halved fresh or tinned cherry tomatoes, some tomato paste and white wine. Simmer until the sauce thickens. Add cooked pasta and pop into a baking dish and top with cheese. Bake on 180 until the cheese is golden.
Surf N Turf with Chilli Garlic Prawns
A delicious Saturday lunch…. just what the Dr ordered! Add some spice to your prawns by adding some chilli sauce… YUM!
Hi everyone! I’ve been very slack keeping this blog going! Hard enough sometimes just keeping up with Facebook… I’ll try a little harder to keep updating!
Scott’s 40th!!!
An amazing weekend celebrating my friend Scott’s 40th Birthday. Great food, friends and family! Scott is a drummer and loves all things music. He has a little collection of minature electric guitars so his partner Renee (one of my closest and best friends) decided a guitar cake would be in order… so I made an electric guitar cake from one of his models. Decided on Mud Cake which turned out to be a real crowd pleaser! Happy 40th Scotty and … Read More
I decided to have a go at modifying the basic ice cream recipe to make is kinder on the hips and it turned out lovely! 3 egg yolks 1⁄2 cup castor sugar 200ml Extra light cream 350ml Skim milk pinch salt 100g chocolate bits Green food colouring Peppermint essence to taste ( I used about 2 small capfuls) Beat the egg yolk and sugar together until fluffy. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Pour into the freezer canister and allow to … Read More
Roast Veges…. MMMM
Fancy up your roast veges tonight and really lightly coat them in some extra virgin olive oil, handful of brown sugar and some dried herbs ♥ I’m serving this with some marinated chicken lovely legs mmmm… smells delicious and we are all getting hungry with the smells coming from the kitchen..
Chicken & Bacon Loaf
After cutting my finger last night on my new ceramic knife I decided to put something quick and easy together for dinner and made this Chicken & Bacon Meatloaf. The bacon flavours the chicken beautifully so there is no need for a lot of ingredients! Inredients: 500 grams of Chicken Mince 4 finely chopped Spring Onions 1 Free Range egg 6 rashers of Bacon Cracked Pepper and Sea Salt What to do: Preheat the oven to 180c. Line a greased loaf … Read More
Homemade Choc Chip Icecream… Yum!
Delicious and creamy home made ice-cream ♥ Chocolate chip ice-cream… 3 egg yolks1⁄2 cup castor sugar200ml cream350ml milkpinch salt100g chocolate bits (I used Mini Specked Easter Eggs) Beat the egg yolk and sugar together until fluffy. Stirin the remaining ingredients. Pour into the freezer canister and allow to churn and freeze. Note: Any variation of chocolate bar finelychopped can be used i.e. Cherry Ripe, MarsBar, Violet Crumble or Peppermint Crisp. If you don’t have an icecream maker…. Take your ice … Read More
