Coq au vin, simply translated means rooster with wine, now I am not sure how authentic this Bill Granger recipe is, especially as it uses chicken and not rooster, but its easy to prepare and cook, tasty and warming on an autumn evening and an all round crowd pleaser. Coq…
Another gorgeous ragu
I know that I have quite a few ragu recipes on my blog already, but I just love them, I love the simplicity of prepping a few simple ingredients and then allowing time to play its part in creating a most delicious and scrumptious meal. This latest recipe comes from…
Spaghetti Vongole
I know its been a very long time since I last wrote a post, but it would appear along with the summer sunshine my baking and blogging mojo has gone missing! I can not seem to find it anywhere, I do not know why this has happened, apart from life…
Homemade Pizza
Food brings people together! Fact! I know I am always banging on about this, but it worries me that fewer and fewer people make the time to cook good food and then take the time to sit down together to eat as a family or with friends. The food doesn’t…
Sfincione (Sicilian Pizza)
I love Italian food, but I am not a pizza lover, well I wasn’t until I found the recipe for this gorgeous Sicilian Pizza, unlike the thin based, tasteless topped pizza you normally get, this one is on a beautiful thick bread base and the toppings are full of flavour…
Wild Garlic Pesto
I love this time of the year, its the start of the foraging season, during the Spring and the Summer months the great outdoors presents us with a wonderful array of delicious free food and in Spring I think it is at its most potent, its full of energy, everywhere…
Tarte Fine Aux Tomates (Tomato Tart)
In amongst my vast collection of cookery books, mostly Italian or baking, I do have a couple of lovely French ones and the book above just happens to be one of them. Its full of gorgeous recipes, beautifully written and the recipe below I thought was just perfect as we are…
Lobster Thermidor
And now for our New Year’s Eve/Wedding Anniversary main course, if we were not going out it just had to be lobster, we both love it and Hubby had the brain wave of making a day of it, we were going to Borough Market, get some lunch and buy our…
Gamberoni al Forno
I would like to start by wishing you all a very Happy New Year and hope that you had a very enjoyable evening last night. Hubby and I decided, as the Children were all out, to stay in and celebrate with a really lovely meal, not only was it New…
