Discovery Home and Health this week are screening Dinner Party Wars a series I shot in Canada with Chef Corbin Tomaszeski. I can’t tell you the fun we had filming the show, I fell in love with Canada, the people, and worked with one of the best teams in television. The formate is 3 couples all competing to host the best dinner party but unlike ‘Come Dine With Me’ its judged on food by a professional chef and on etiquette…
There are not many people who arrive in France and take out of their suitcase 2 steaks a load of sausages and a bag of lettuce. I did! The fact is France is not like the UK with an open all hours policy, so when I know I’m arriving late and want to eat at home its the only way. with a quick dash to an airport shop for milk. This meal took me minuets to bash together and by…
I have wished on so many occasions that I didn’t like sugar but I do I can’t even drink a up of tea with out the lovely sweet white stuff. Well a friend of mine has introduced me to Agave Nectar look at the website and I think you’ll be impressed http://www.allaboutagave.com I’m now a massive fan and will use nothing else…
If you’re not a cake maker this is the recipe for you. My Mum used to make it back in the 60’s when we were little and the little cakes disappeared nearly as fast as she could pull them out of the oven! It also appears in Mary Berry’s AGA book. Ingredients 4 Eggs 250g Soft Margarine 250g Caster Sugar 350g Self Raising Flour 4 Tablespoons Milk 350g Sultanas Method Put all the ingredient except the sultanas into a bowl and beat…
There has been a lot of colds in our family so out came the warming and comforting Chicken Noodle Soup… Ingredients 2 stalks of celery 2 carrots 2 tbsp butter ½ tsp salt 1 sprig fresh thyme – pull off all the leaves 2 bay leaves 2 boned chicken breasts 5 cups of stock – I use my favourite Marigold SwissVegetable Bouillon instant stock for ease Handful of flat leaf parsley 1/2 lemon Salt and pepper to taste Method Chop up the celery and carrots to a…
Not many of us though are brave enough to enter a chutney making competition having never made any before but Will Tyler did at his local pub and the celebrated Spiced Apple Chutney has made its way to me! It’s delicious definitely a winner in our house. So here is the recipe if you want to try it for yourself. Or you could make a batch and be very popular with your cheese eating friends. Ingredients 225g onions, chopped 900g apples, cored and chopped 110g sultanas,…
This is the easiest and most heart-warming recipe I have sampled in a long time. Don’t be put off by the fact it’s risotto- this is not your normal method of risotto making; i.e. standing “patiently” by your pot adding stock and wine bit by bit and stirring, stirring. This is quite literally a one-pot dish, with all the hard work done in 10 minutes getting the ingredients together. Instructions Serves 4: Punnet of cherry tomatoes, (keep some whole and…
Over the years we have eaten more pancakes than ‘Little Black Sambo’ – If you have never read this book it was my favourite as a child and I still have a very tatty version of it. My pancake recipe is a very standard one… Ingredients 4 heaped tbsp of plain flour Pinch of salt 2 eggs 7 fl oz milk topped up to a half a pint with water 2 tblsp melted butter with a little for using to grease…
Apple crumble is for me one of the most delicious and easy deserts to knock together but I’ve had good, bad and the one that’s annoys me the most which is oats in the topping. They bring nothing to the party and remind me of breakfast! First rule don’t use cooking apples… in fact why would anyone ever use them? They are sour which means to make them vaguely palatable you have to load sugar onto them. I use a good quality…