This was going to be a lasagne until I realised I’d forgotten to buy the pasta strips, so I had to improvise and use the spaghetti (bucatini) than I had in so pasta bake is the result. But remember, if you want to, you can just sub the bucatini pasta for lasagne sheets and you’re […]
With the success of last week’s pizza we decided to do it all over again but this time trying it as a curry pizza. This is the type of thing we would have ordered from a takeaway when we were younger and it would come with a mountain of topping, it was crazy. But this […]
I bought a brand new frying pan the other day, a beautiful non stick whopper to replace my tired 9 year old pan, which I have placed in semi retirement. I can’t throw it out as it’s served me well and can still be used for everything else that doesn’t require non stick. However, the […]
ah, my favourite time… dessert. I do have to hold my hands up and say I love to bake… cookies, cupcakes, tarts and cheesecakes and when you get it just right, it’s like the clouds have parted and the sun is shining right on your face… (I have actually been sitting in the sun trying […]
A friend of mine mentioned that she’d tried some pumpkin falafel while she was in the UK last month and said that they were fabulous, so it inspired me to try it out. Unfortunately I can’t get my paws on pumpkin so I went for some butternut squash instead which I thought was a fair […]
ooooooh!!!! Very excited to share this… I’ve tried to make a biryani before but it just didn’t quite turn out right, that is until last night. I took a little leaf out of my risotto recipe and made some modifications to cooking the rice and it worked an absolute treat, I am so pleased! I […]