There’s little in life more comforting than home made pie – and this is exactly one of those dishes. Our filling was loosely based on this recipe from the BBC, however without mushrooms (my boyfriend hates them with a vengeance and tantrums whenever I sneak them into food without his knowledge!). We recommend making your [...]
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There are far too many people out there who sack off homemade pastry as a faff without reason. And bizarre rumours about people with the wrong types of hands for pastry making – what a load of twaddle! I grew up making pastry with my mother and with her mother using this recipe, and its [...]
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There are some dishes that have earned themselves quite a reputation for being downright difficult, and most people write them off without having even tried them. Souffle…no way! Roulade…too hard! But if you, like me, have always fancied trying Beef Wellington (after all, what could be wrong about beef fillet wrapped in pastry?) then this [...]
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This is the one recipe that no matter how many times I make it, I’m always astounded by the fact that it turns out so well. This has nothing to do with the somewhat unorthodox choice of fillings (tuna and yogurt…bear with me here!), but more to do with the fact that I don’t ever [...]
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Puff pastry seems to have a pretty tough rep – I’d always been told that it was complicated, fiddly and time consuming. This recipe however, originally one of Gordon’s, is quick, easy and faff free. Okay it is ‘rough’ puff pastry – not something you would find in a patisserie but it makes a pretty [...]
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