Sausage and Kale gnocchi bake

This recipe from delicious magazine is perfect for a midweek dinner. On reading the reviews there are certain tweaks to make and the main on...

Fish parcels with new potatoes, lemon and cream cheese

This meal became a favourite of mine in the summer. A whole meal packaged and baked in individual parcels. I tried the recipe with cod and s...

One pot chicken with beetroot and mascarpone

  It's always a bit of a risk trying a completely new recipe for a dinner party, especially when you're a bit pushed for time, but t...

Chicken and potatoes with lemon and honey

This is just one of those great meals that takes five minutes to prepare, its all in one roasting tin and its perfect for warm Summer evenin...

Lamb kofta with sweet and sour tomato sauce

Saturday night dinner was a new recipe from an old Olive magazine. Something that I had marked out to try ages ago. I enjoy cooking listenin...

Spinach Pesto

I adore homemade pesto but rarely have basil in the quantity that you need to make a good batch. Last week I had a large bag of spinach in t...

Nigel Slater's Hot smoked fish and leek pie

This delicious fish pie was worthy of a return to blogging. It appears in Nigel Slater's "The Christmas Chronicles", and altho...

Chicken with a Dijon mustard sauce

We left the teenagers home alone last night. It’s something we are doing a little more often, not for long just yet, 2 nights at the most. S...

Chicken Saag

It's got to the point where I need to watch the calories for a while and lose some weight before Christmas. Since I've reached the a...

Pizza Fiorentina

I apologise if you are still following Good food and red shoes and thinking when the heck is this woman going to add a new recipe. I kind of...

Asparagus and Gruyere tarte

If you want to make something that is so incredibly easy but very impressive at the same time this is the dish for you.  It's a recipe g...

Roasted new potatoes with Brie and sundried tomatoes

Tesco recently sent me a box of free goodies for being a good customer. It included a packet of jersey royal potatoes, some Cornish Brie, so...

Tray-roast salmon and vegetables with creme fraiche and crumbs

There is a similarity with this dish and one of my favourite salmon dishes which is the salmon with a lemon and Parmesan crust. Both are re...

Mexican Bean Burgers

Well the exams have started. Stress levels have reduced a bit, because let's face it there isn't much that can be done at this stage...

Juicy Lucy burger

I've made quite a few homemade burgers in the past,  but these I made last night were by far the best. I bought mince with a higher fat ...

Jamaican prawn, pepper and coconut stew

It may have been because I replaced the ground allspice and the thyme leaves with   some lime juice and a drop of fish sauce, but to me this...

Crusty pasta and broccoli cheese bake

My intention last night was  to make a broccoli and cheese soufflé, when it came to meal time I decided to look for an easier recipe that I ...

Mushroom, sundried tomatoes and nut bake

I try to stick to meat free Mondays as often as I can. This dish came about quite by accident as I was planning on making The Hairy Bikers m...

Pasta with a Quick Sausage Sauce

This may look like a basic ragu, the principal is the same but its actually quite a different flavour from a beef based sauce. I love the ad...

Mary Berry's Lemon Chicken with chives

This is clearly not a photo of my food tonight, I have resorted to using the one from the website. It was a lovely meal but my photo didn...