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A quick and simple pasta dish
I created this simple supper last night when I needed to fiddle up a quick tasty dinner from the fridge and cupboard. Ingredients 400g...


My Moroccan Tagine from Food Matters Live
Moroccan tagine 1 large white onion chopped 1 butternut squash diced 2 cloves of garlic chopped 2 tbsp of harissa paste 1 400g tin of...


Ox Cheek and Red Wine Pie with Sour Dough Pastry.
Ox cheek and red wine pie made with sough dough pastry Filling 2 x 300g ox cheeks 1 tbsp of plain flour 1 tsp of sea salt 1/4 tsp of...


Winter Pumpkin Soup
Ingredients 1 large onion 250g diced potato 250g chopped carrot 500g pumpkin, diced 1 large clove of garlic, crushed to a fine paste ...


Italian Braised Beef Stew
There is now better feeling driving home from work knowing you have this amazing dish bubbling away in a slow cookery or in a solid cast...


California Prune and Hallumi Skewers with Lime and Coriander Salsa
I just love the contrast that the California Prunes offers against the saltiness of the hallumi cheese, then all finished off with a...


Pumpkin Soup with Pickled California Prune Salsa
Year on year the internet gets inundated with pumpkin soup recipes. I wanted to come up with a recipe that firstly was an easy way to...


Sausage Rolls with Fennel Chutney
This recipe has been taken from my days in Keswick when I owned and ran my first business. I figured if I made the best sausage rolls I...


Cumbrian Whig Bread
This recipe is a Cumbrian classic. A lovely soft white loaf spiced with carraway seed. It is said that this loaf comes from the German...


Rhubarb and Custard Shortbread
Rhubarb and custard is a wonderful combination of flavours and what could be more British and seasonal this time of year. I have written...


Apple and Blackberry Cumberland Sausages
This recipe is very much bang in season the blackberries are everywhere in Cumbria and who does not love Cumberland Sausage, we all have...


Focaccia with Tellegio Cheese, Shallot and Rosemary
Tellegio cheese with rosemary and shallot Makes 1 loaf Ingredients 500g oo pasta flour 7g yeast 1 tsp of salt 30ml olive oil 300 ml...
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