Recipes

All recipes featured are our own unless otherwise stated. We love to cook and our inspiration comes from everywhere. We have travelled the world, eaten out in countless places and about to lose count of our literary food based collection. Ingredients are always fresh, we very rarely use processed food, everything is achievable at home if you want it to be.

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Cornflake flap jackChewy, sweet and buttery, flapjacks are easy to make, traditionally made just with oats but here I've pimped them up with some cornflakes and raisins. Don't be confined to cornflakes through, feel free to use crunchy nut cornflakes, rice krispies or go chocolaty and use cocoa pops. Makes 16 squares
Poor mans potatoes, patatas a lo pobreThis classic Spanish dish is utterly delicious and addictive, one of my favourite potato dishes to make. This can be served on it's own, with a fried egg, jamon or as a side dish to accompany any meat or fish dish. Serves 2-3 either as a main or a side.
Chicken PatiaThis is a modern day tasty parsi recipe, much like an Indian sweet and sour. You can swap the chicken for prawns if you like, tofu, paneer and peas or a combination of your chosen vegetable. Add extra chilli if you like your curries a bit spicier, either extra chilli powder or chopped red chillies added to the onion mixture. Serve with rice or Indian breads. Serves 2-3
Spanakopita – Greek Spinach PieAdd a touch of Greek into your life with this traditional spinach and feta pie, this is an easy, straightforward pie to put together, Depending on where you buy your filo you may need to cut to size so adapt as you go, just don't skrimp on the butter whatever you do. Original recipe by Angela Boggiano from her book Pie.
Cuban Beef PicadilloThere are no doubt many variations of this recipe, it is a piquant, kind of sweet and sour spicy mince which can be served on it's own with rice or loaded onto fries, or you can use it to make empanadas or even papa rellenas which are meat-stuffed potatoes.
Spicy nduja, pepper and pasta soupThis soup came about as a bit of a fridge forage and I think it's my favourite of this years soup season so far, you can omit the nduja if you wish to keep it vegetarian it will still be incredibly punchy and spicy and more importantly warming from the cold outside.
5 Pea and ham soupA quintessential British soup made using a mixture of dried British peas and smoked ham, healthy and vibrant and super easy to make using a pressure cooker.
Spicy Southwestern Garbanzo Beans or Chickpeas to usThis was a recipe from an old American cook book that I have adapted to suit my taste which is for it to be more spicy and less sweet, this dish is quite addictive and can be served hot or room temperature, serve with rice, pickles, flatbreads, on toast or just on their own with a spoon
Sopa de FideoThis is a very easy soup to make using store cupboard ingredients and spices, kids will also love it as it's not too far removed from spaghetti in tomato sauce. Fideo is a Mexican pasta, but you can use vermicelli or other thin straight pasta, even spaghetti broken up into 1-inch pieces, omit the chicken if you want a vegetarian option.