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…

One Pan Hake with Tomatoes & Beans

This is dish is one of my favourite midweek meals, mainly because it involves almost zero effort yet it feels a little bit fancy. I’ve made it in many various forms with different types of beans and different types of fish but this combination has to be my favourite. Any white fish will work, I…

The Boyfriend’s Homemade Fakeaways: Donner Kebab

When I first met my boyfriend he’d barely ever cooked a thing, having served 5 years in the army, he’d been fed three times a day and never had to. However being a big food lover and knowing how big a foodie I was, he won me over when we were first dating by cooking…

Roast Lemon & Herb Chicken

When I first got into cooking there was one thing I really wanted to master: the ultimate Sunday dinner. I figured I couldn’t consider myself a good cook unless I could do a really good roast chicken. Obviously this is a very sacred meal so I’ve made sure I’ve practiced several times and got my…

Lemon & Rosemary Posset with Green Peppercorn Shortbread

Being more of a savoury person than a sweet person, desserts are not often something I make the effort to spend lots of time on. As much as I love dessert, I think I’m just not a natural pastry chef. Plus, The Boyfriend is brilliant at them, so sweet is usually his area. However, I…

A Birthday Feast… Rachael’s Recipes – Slow Roast Mediterranean Lamb

This time of year Christmas isn’t the only occasion being celebrated by my family. Just a few days before is my Dad’s birthday and tradition has it that while my parents are in charge of Christmas dinner, I’m in charge of Dad’s birthday dinner. This year he requested a Greek mezze. I slow roasted a…

Honest Burgers, Soho

Burger and chips was something that I never really fully appreciated until my visit to Byron a few months ago. I’d always thought it was a bit of a boring option and thought how could a burger and chips really vary that much from place to place….. it turns out, quite a lot! Honest Burgers…