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Creamy Pumpkin Pasta
Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Autumn and winter are the perfect seasons to enjoy this delicious and comforting creamy pumpkin pasta. Roasting the pumpkin is key to getting the most out of this recipe, as it will bring out its natural sweetness and make for a creamy sauce. This dish is perfect for those cold nights when […]
Salted Caramel Fudge
Salted Caramel Fudge Recipe Salted caramel fudge is an irresistible classic that has been delighting families for generations. This traditional recipe uses sweetened condensed milk to create a creamy and indulgent treat that is sure to become a family favourite. With just a few simple ingredients, you can easily make your own delicious salted caramel […]
Spiced Braised Red Cabbage
Braised Red Cabbage Recipe Braised red cabbage is a classic British staple that’s perfect for the festive season. It’s a slow-cooked dish that can be served alongside a roast dinner or as an accompaniment to any meal. The sweet and tangy flavour of the red cabbage is sure to be a hit with your family […]
Creamy Roasted Garlic & Chicken Fettuccine
Creamy Roasted Garlic & Chicken Fettuccine Recipe We had the first glittering scattering of snow here in Scotland on Sunday! I always say the first snow falls at the end of November, and this year was no different. So in honour of such a cold, yet beautiful day, I decided to make my thoroughly indulgent, […]
Mustard Crusted Roast Potatoes with Crispy Bacon
Mustard Roast Potatoes with Bacon Bits Recipe I have never met a person who doesn’t love the humble roast potato. Crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside, they’re a delicious dinner staple in millions of homes around the world. And our home is no different! However, when it comes to roast totties, […]
Proper Garlic Bread (with roasted garlic)
Proper Garlic Bread Spaghetti is a regular feature on our weekly meal plan, and as we all know – you can’t have spaghetti bolognese without garlic bread! However, we don’t just do any old plain and boring toast. In our house, we make proper garlic bread! This proper garlic bread is for people who don’t […]
Creamy Chicken One-Pot with Spinach and Broccolini
Creamy Chicken One-Pot with Spinach and Brocollini Recipe The weather has been strange here in Scotland, making deciding what to cook each day that much more difficult. The mornings are brisk and chill, whereas it warms up throughout the day to something rather uncomfortable. I like to think it’s Scotland’s last attempt at Summer! But […]
Lemon Drizzle Cake
Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe I’m not the biggest fan of sweets – never have been, and never will be. But when offered a slice of lemon drizzle cake? Or any lemony delight for that matter, I’m completely won over. To me, the blend of sweet and bitter come together perfectly in cakes such as this […]
Cauliflower Cheese
Cauliflower Cheese Recipe Here in Scotland, a Sunday roast isn’t just roast totties and parsnips. In fact, the British love to indulge in various side dishes when it comes to a roast dinner, much more so than we do back home in Australia. And one of the side dishes that I have come to love […]
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream (no churn)
No Churn Homemade Vanilla Icecream Recipe To me, buying ice cream is a risky business. Especially vanilla ice cream. Will it have a nice rich flavour and texture? Or will it be bland, flavourless, and icy? It’s a big risk and when you look at the price of a tub of ice cream, a risk […]
Steak & Sausage Stew
More Beef & Steak recipes Steak and Sausage Stew Recipe Is there anything more comforting on a cold, blustery stormy day than a bowl of stew? The weather here in Scotland has been full of dark skies and stormy weather, so of course, stew was on my menu! Now, I know not everyone is a […]
Leafy Pink Salad with Feta
An easy winter salad, with goats cheese, bresaola and sweet potato, to keep you warm and happy on those long cold nights.
Braised Lamb Shanks with Red Wine
There is nothing I love more, than slow-cooked, melt in your mouth, kinda meals. And these braised lamb shanks, cooked slow and low in a red wine gravy, are just that. Rather than on the hob, I cook these in a cast iron casserole pot in the oven for a few hours over a very […]
Honey Roasted Carrots
I think we can all agree that sometimes a Sunday roast can start to feel a little same-ish. And sometimes you simply need something a little bit different to bring back the excitement of the roast dinner. And that’s exactly what I’ve done with these simple, but delicious, honey roasted carrots. This honey roasted carrot recipe […]
Green Lentil & Vegetable Soup
Green Lentil & Vegetable Soup Recipe I make vegetable soup with such regularity that I often simply presume I have all the ingredients I need on hand. I find myself rarely having all the necessary ingredients for certain recipes, so a quick trip to the store is a must. However, many times I’m able to […]
Spicy Chorizo Pigs in Blankets with Sweet Chilli Glaze
Spicy Chorizo Pigs in Blankets with Sweet Chilli Glaze Recipe Here in the UK, it’s not Christmas dinner without pigs in blankets! The bacon-wrapped chipolatas are a Christmas day must-have, and it seems almost sacrilegious to eat them at any other time through the year. Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of store-bought pigs in […]
Proper Hot Chocolate
Proper Hot Chocolate Recipe Each year in the lead up to Christmas, I indulge my sweet tooth and try out every seasonal hot chocolate I can find. I love cosy-ing up in cafes big and small, trying out different hot chocolates with different toppings. However, this year that’s not been an option so instead I’ve […]
Gingerbread Cookies
Total time: 1 hour.
Curry Beef Pie
Curry Beef Pie Recipe If Australian cuisine is known for anything, it’s the good ol’ Aussie meat pie. Australians love pie in all its forms, and I was surprised to find that here in the UK they’re just not as common (or readily available) as they are back home in Australia. And so I make […]
Hearty Vegetable Soup
Cooking time: 2 hours
Carrot & Swede Mash
Carrot & Swede Mash
Bacon Stuffing
Bacon & Onion Stuffing Recipe I love Christmas. Adore it completely. In fact, Christmas is one of the reasons I left Australia and moved to Scotland! After all, Christmas is all about celebrating winter, with comforting food, knitted sweaters, and plenty of friends and family. And of course – the Christmas roast dinner. I have […]
Bacon & Egg Breakfast Muffins
Bacon & Egg Breakfast Muffins Recipe If there was one thing I learned growing up in a large family, with many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles, it’s that breakfast for the masses can be a centre of chaos. Being a person drawn to organisation, and keeping things as sane and as rational as possible, […]
Creamy Red Pepper Pasta
Creamy Red Pepper Pasta Recipe As much as I love creamy pasta recipes, they tend to fill me up quickly and I can only ever enjoy very small portions. This red pepper pasta recipe though is the one exception to the rule. I love this sauce, sweet and cheesy and velvety smooth, and can quite […]
Homemade Spreadable Compound Butter: Thyme & Onion
Homemade Spreadable Thyme & Onion Compound Butter Recipe One of my earliest cooking memories was making garlic bread for the family. Every Tuesday night, my mother would make Spaghetti Bolognese, and of course, garlic bread was a necessity! Every now and then, however, we would have herb and onion bread – deliciously sweet from the […]
Salted Caramel Cashews
Salted Caramel Cashews Recipe It may be the middle of July, but this recipe is inspired by the Christmastimes of my youth. Growing up, each Christmas morning we would awake to an array of fresh fruit and nuts on the table – perfect for young children too distracted by Santa. Of this spread, my favourite […]
10-Minute Lime Chilli Roasted Almonds
10-Minute Lime Chilli Roasted Almonds Recipe I have a confession to make – I’m a grazer. As much as I love sitting down to a big bowl of pasta or soup, I tend to graze throughout the day. Especially busy days when I don’t have the luxury to sit down to eat! My snack food […]
The Very Best Butternut Squash Soup
Butternut squash Soup Recipe In our home, at least once a week is soup night. Usually, I’ll whip up a simple chicken noodle soup with oodles of vegetables. But occasionally, I’ll try something a little bit different. This week, it was my vegan butternut squash soup. I use coconut milk to achieve that rich velvety […]
30-Minute Paneer Tikka Masala
Paneer Tikka Masala Recipe Tikka masala is hands down one of my favourite curries, however I had never tried it until I moved to the UK! Tikka Masala is a spicy, creamy and tomato rich curry typically made with Chicken. However, I like to mix things up a little and use paneer – a gorgeously […]
Beer-Battered Fish with Minted Mushy Peas
Today we have another British classic – beer-battered fish and chips with mushy peas. Given we haven’t been able to visit our favourite pub this year, despite this beautiful weather, I decided this week to bring a little bit of pub grub to us. We grabbed a few beers, and then ate our fish and […]