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…

​ 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…

Lamb Kebabs with Mint

Inspired by my recent trip to Suvlaki, I decided to make some meaty skewers of my own. Quick kebabs are a favourite midweek meal of mine. They’re insanely easy to assemble, quick to cook and easy to spice up by just throwing on any herbs and spices you have knocking about in the cupboard. I…

Cumin & Thyme Roasted Nuts

I absolutely love nuts as a great snack/nibble. They’re great to put out when you have people over for drinks, they’re a great movie watching snack and I love to put a handful in my lunchbox to have as a mid-morning snack at work.  I used to get Graze boxes delivered to the office once a week…

Classic Houmous

Houmous is a classic dip we all know and love. It’s an easy, healthy and popular snack for the kids and a must as part of any Mediterranean or middle eastern mezze. Its a very healthy dip as, unlike a lot of it’s competitors, it’s not overly creamy or oily. Houmous also comes in about…

Falafel

For those of you unfamiliar with falafel, it’s a Middle-Eastern snack made predominantly from chickpeas. Think of it as sort of a vegetarian meatball. Loaded with herbs and spices its a bit of a taste sensation popular with many a meat lover as well as vegetarians. There are so many different variations of this tasty…

Spinach Houmous

We are swiftly approaching party season and that means party food! We’ll all be hosting social gatherings in the next 38 days, whether it be the full on Turkey dinner on Christmas Day for your family, or cocktail parties with your friends or having family round for tea and cake on a Saturday afternoon. Don’t…

Spicy Fish Stew

One of my favourite things about cooking is that once you’ve got the hang of a few basic skills, understand flavours and have a well stocked store cupboard of herbs and spices you don’t really have to plan and prep so much and can make things on a whim and mix up your recipe as…

Roast Loin of Pork with Pearl Barley

Pork has always been my least favourite meat. For years I always associated it with those horrible dry chops with a huge lump of fat attached that you always seemed to get back when I was growing up. I had decided that pork was just something I didn’t like, until I tried pork loin and…

Andy Bates’ Slow Roasted Lamb with Feta Salsa

A few months ago I was watching Andy Bates’ Street Feasts on Food Network and saw him make this delicious lamb recipe and have been dying to give it a go ever since. A few weeks ago I finally got around to giving this one a go and did it for the whole family on a…