Recipes



Anzac biscuit recipe – oaty, coconut goodness

Anzac Biscuits

This delicious recipe comes from my lovely Mum in Shropshire. We sampled them at the weekend and asked for the recipe straight away. They are oaty, chewy and really quite remarkable – excellent with tea or coffee and very easy to make. So good in fact that it is only Thursday and we have already [...]

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Hot, smoky , cider pulled pork recipe

Pulled pork

I don’t know why, but today I had an overwhelming desire to try my hand at pulled pork. I have never made it before and only ever eaten Grillstocks’ delicious version in a bap at lunchtime. Maybe it is the freezing temperatures outside, whatever it was, I had to make pulled pork! I put out [...]

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Leftover turkey, courgette and sweetcorn fritter recipe

This delicious looking recipe is something a bit different to the usual turkey curry or pie and comes from the Devilled Egg Kitchen Academy in Clifton.  Ingredients: 310g tinned corn (or fresh, boiled) 200g leftover turkey 150g courgette, grated 2 eggs, beaten 80ml cup milk 130g self-raising flour 1/2 teaspoon curry powder Salt and pepper [...]

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Chocolate Christmas fruit cake

This is another guest post from the lovely Sarah Ashworth – you can read her blog here. A chocolate Christmas cake? YES PLEASE! I find it hard to stomach Nigella Lawson. But, she does make the most completely indulgent, guilt-laden delicious food. This fruit cake, taken from her Feast cookbook, is no exception. I’m usually [...]

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Featured recipe: Savoury courgette, pumpkin seed and Somerset cheddar muffins

This is a guest post from the lovely chef Janey at Bocabar. We think you’ll agree they look well worth a try! 225g Self raising flour Handful of pumpkin seeds 100g grated courgette 150g Somerset cheddar grated- Gorge cheddar is good 275ml Milk 2 Medium free range eggs 100ml Olive oil 12 cherry tomatoes Salt [...]

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Bristol Sweet Mart – an Aladdin’s cave!

Guest blogger Sarah Ashworth tells us how Bristol’s Sweet Mart took her right back to Sri Lanka. Bristol Sweet Mart 80 Saint Mark’s Road Bristol, BS5 6JH t: 0117 961 0690 w: www.sweetmart.co.uk Get directions‎ It’s July, and while more friends post their holiday snaps of far flung destinations, the UK gets a month’s worth [...]

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Jammy coconut sponge

Jammy coconut sponge

I have just got back from a brilliant hen weekend. We went ‘glamping’ with these guys in the Cotswalds – highly recommended and some piccys below. On Saturday we held a high tea for the beautiful bride to be, and were asked to bake a cake. There were 20 of us, so through fear of [...]

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Devilled spider crab in the shell

Devilled Spider Crab

Recently we went on holiday to Wales for a week by the sea. We managed to get a spider crab from the local fishmonger which had been picked up from the fishing village we were staying in that morning (you don’t get much fresher than that). Neither of us had a clue of what to [...]

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Japanese slow cooked mackerel

Mackerel from Toveys

At the moment I’m on a bit of a fish-fest and am trying to introduce more fish into my diet. As such we’ve got pretty experimental with some of the recipes we’re trying out at home. This is an alternative take on mackerel. This takes a long time to cook, about three and a half [...]

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Warm smoked mackerel salad with potato rosti

Mackerel Salad

I stumbled across this recipe whilst having an “I don’t know what cook tonight” panic in the middle of Sainsbury’s. A real gem of a recipe, I can’t wait to cook it again. We ate it with potato rosti however for a lighter dish you could just have more salad and miss the potatoes altogether. [...]

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