Summer Salmon and Basil Carbonara

This is a very loose recipe that can change depending on the amount of people you are feeding and according to your taste. It is a fast and exciting recipe to cook as it happens all at the last minute and you can see the dish come together as you toss the hot pasta in…

Wrapped and stuffed Pork Loin with cheese, sun dried tomatoes and onions

This was a real experimental dish! I wanted to create something decadent and different to the usual midweek meal, and this was certainly just that. This pork loin was very rich with the oozing cheese and crisp bacon. I served it here with roasted mustard and thyme aubergines and balsamic glazed radicchio. These sides were…

Speedy Tomato Sauce

I think the secret to a good tomato sauce is the quality of the tomatoes. I know this sounds obvious but I have been trying for a long time, with lots of different ingredients, to get a good tomato sauce and now I know, it’s all about the tomatoes haha! All you need to make…

Our Dinner Party – three courses, four wines!

So we were having two of our best friends over for a Saturday night meal, its classic dinner party territory, so I got thinking about a manageable but fancy three course menu. I felt it was a great excuse to do something that we wouldn’t usually have but I had to balance that with not…

My Unicorn Cake!

I really enjoyed making and decorating this little beauty. I find it very creative and fun doing this kind of icing, you can be really free with it. The hardest part of this cake was the base buttercream layer, it has to be straight, smooth and neat, neat neat! It’s not perfect but it was…

Celebrating National Sausage week

Last week was national week and I thought about lots of different sausage dishes from a rich oniony sausage casserole to spicy bbq sausage and fries but in the end I decided to go classic french with this sausage and lental dish.  It was warming and comforting with the earthy lentals and deep meaty sausage….

Autumn is here, let’s roast a squash!

The little beautiful orange creature was named a ‘culinary squash’ in the supermarket. I wondered about the different things I could make with it. As it’s cold and wet outside I thought I would make something comforting and warming, and this defiantly ticks those boxes. I decided to combine the wonderfully soft and sweet roasted flesh…

5 Ingredient Ridiculously Tasty Mushroom Pasta

If you want a really tasty meat free pasta dish then this is the recipe for you. The mushroom sauce is so meaty and flavour packed that you defiantly won’t miss the meat! With just 5 ingredients it’s simple, easy and fast! I really liked the deep, dark and satisfyingly savoury tone of this dish….

Rich and smokey Baked Beans

This is a recipe anyone, even my husband, can do…it’s a ‘throw it all in one pan’ recipe. These beans are rich, smokey and comforting, but they are also really easy to make as all the elements are kitchen staples, so this is a real store cupboard quick fix. They are quite different to those…