Main meals, sides & all sorts of easy makes
Beef, lentil and jackfruit chilli are among my favourite, fail-safe recipes. One of the things I most love about this Mexican comfort food made with tomatoes and red kidney beans – with or without meat – is the variety of ways in which you can serve …
I love lentils and beans, and happily – unlike a lot of my other favourite foods – they’re really healthy too. It was a chilly, wet autumn day and this combination seemed just right. Hence the invention of this easy sausage and lentil casserole, slow …
This vegetable makhani recipe is a great curry for kids, as it’s quite creamy and sweet. As well as vegetables, the same haricot beans that are used for making baked beans are also in it. Plus butter beans. This vegetable makhani curry is a little …
Is there a match more made in heaven than the filling ingredients of this beef and mushroom pot pie? Well Mister doesn’t like mushrooms, so he would disagree. This beef and mushroom pot pie recipe with puff pastry can be partly made in the slow …
More so than with anything else I eat, when I having Thai food I always mourn the very last mouthful when it comes to an end. It’s close run thing between Thai or Indian style curries, though. Like my Slow Cooker Beef Massaman, this Thai …
This delicious Italian bean stew recipe makes a tasty, substantial and super healthy dish – and it is made mostly from store cupboard ingredients. The sweetness of the honey, cinnamon and carrot contrasts very nicely against the earthy flavour of the spinach. This dish is …
I love curry. I would find it so difficult to choose between a Thai or an Indian curry, though. Which is where this slow cooker beef Massaman curry recipe comes in. It’s Thai, but clove, cinnamon and cardamom are warm spices that echo the Indian …
This easy Vietnamese beef stew, slow cooker style, is a classic with a delicious twist. Yummy Vietnamese flavours bring this slowly cooked beef stew to life. Pop this into the pot in minutes, and later you’ll have an aromatic main meal that has been cooked …
My home town had a great, Italian-owned family pizzeria, where myself and many of my classmates celebrated our birthdays every year, with all our friends and family. Whether it was September or February we’d be wearing their infamous Sombrero (no, I don’t know why they had …
I use frozen prawns in this quick Thai red prawn curry with vegetables recipe. They are far cheaper – and more convenient. Fresh are of course great, if you can get them. I love the crunchiness of the bamboo shoots, and using tinned – and frozen …