Creamy Tarragon Chicken Stew

Tarragon is such an amazing herb that in my opinion is grossly under used. It’s something I don’t often cook with myself as I tend to forget about it, but every time I do I think why don’t I use tarragon more often?! Tarragon with chicken is such a classic pairing and when I decided…

Moroccan Spiced Lamb Shanks with Chickpeas

When I do a weekend shop and I haven’t quite decided what I want to cook sometimes I’ll go along to the supermarket, see what’s on sale or special offer and base my Sunday lunch around what I find. A great place to look for bargains is in the reduced section. A lot of meat…

Baked Chicken Legs with Tomato & Borlotti Bean Stew

Sometimes a great dinner is more than the sum of it’s parts, a great dish can be put together from simple cheap ingredients and turned into something special. All of the ingredients in this dish are pretty basic and inexpensive and you can always swap out the veg for whatever you have floating around in…

​ Batch Cooking: Moroccan Chicken Stew

Recently life seems to be getting increasingly busier. I love to meal plan and I love to cook but sometimes it’s just impossible, impractical or I really don’t have the time. When The Boyfriend and I are on different schedules it can also be really difficult cooking for one without wasting ingredients or cooking too…

Vegetable Soup

This recipe I’m sharing with you is actually one I make on a pretty regular basis. This is mainly because it’s so ridiculously easy and doesn’t involve a ton of fancy ingredients and only takes around 15 minutes to make. In addition to this, it’s also really tasty, especially considering that all the ingredients are…

Orange Sautéed Baby Carrots

My parents have always been keen gardeners and grow a variety of vegetables in the garden every yeae which results in us having a tasty selection of homegrown produce. This year we’ve got loads of carrots that have only grown to miniature size. I mostly use carrots in things like stews, pies and bolognese as…

Roasted Duck Leg with Carrots, Parsnips & Bean & Spinach Stew

Duck is something I had never cooked before this dish. I sort of unexpectedly ended up giving it a whirl too. For my Mum’s birthday I asked her if she could have any dinner what would it be and I would cook it for her as a birthday treat. She initially said fish (which I…

Pistachio & Coconut Carrot Cake

When leafing through cookbooks and food magazines I always get drawn in by the cake recipes that are a bit of a twist on the classics. As much as I love a good Victoria sponge, coffee & walnut or carrot cake, something a bit different is always a nice change. I stumbled across a scrumptious…

Sweet Chilli Prawn Lunchbox

For the last week or two I seem to be loving a bit of seafood in my lunch boxes, so we’re moving from crab to prawns. It’s really easy to get repetitive and therefore bored, so when you are using similar ingredients, try to mix it up a bit with different veg and salad and…

Vegetarian Curry

So this week I’ve had my friend Alex come to visit for a few days, which was really lovely and great to have a catch up as we don’t get together that often. However, this did pose one problem… she’s a veggie! Now for me, this isn’t really a problem, I really love vegetables and…