Posted in Baking, Brownies, Chocolate, Toffee/Caramel, tagged brownies, caramel, chocolate on September 21, 2011| 16 Comments »
I have spent the past few days feeling very sorry for myself. I have picked up some sort of mutant flu (or a bad cold) and my head hurts too much to do anything. Fortunately, before I was struck down with this horrible flu (or bad cold), I made these amazing caramel brownies and so I have been consoling myself by stuffing my face with them. (more…)
Posted in Beef, Main dish, Mexican, Pasta, tagged cheese, enchiladas, mexican, pasta, tex mex on September 20, 2011| 6 Comments »
After turning Philly cheese steak into pasta last week, I’ve been thinking about what else would be fun to turn into pasta. I decided on beef enchiladas. (more…)
Posted in Baking, Cake, Chocolate, Maltesers, tagged cake, chocolate, malted milk, maltesers on September 19, 2011| 10 Comments »
Last time I counted my cookbooks, I had around sixty five on my bookshelf. I decided this was plenty and that I would try not to buy any for a while. At the weekend I went shopping and I saw this (which I’m fairly certain is this book, having compared the indexes). Obviously I had to have it, and I’d been so good, I deserved it. My first cookbook for ages! Or so I thought. When I got home, I decided to count my cookbooks again (don’t envy my exciting life). Eighty five. I have eighty five cookbooks. Somehow, in my break from buying cookbooks, I have acquired twenty extra cookbooks. I do not know how this has happened. I couldn’t tell you which twenty are new. Oops. (more…)
Posted in Main dish, Mexican, Poultry, tagged cheese, chicken, mexican, nachos on September 18, 2011| 7 Comments »
I have a confession. I’m not great at cutlery. I hold my fork in my right hand. I hold my knife in my left hand. When I have to cut things, I kind of just saw at them a bit and then try to drag them apart. It’s not classy. But this doesn’t need cutlery! No! You can just pick up the nachos, scoop up some chicken and cheese, straight in your mouth. Yes. You might need a fork for stray bits of chicken, but I can totally do fork only meals. (more…)
Posted in Baking, Brownies, Chocolate, Toffee/Caramel, tagged brownies, chocolate, toffee on September 18, 2011| 12 Comments »
Are you a fan of fudgy brownies or cakey brownies? Honestly, I don’t even class cakey brownies as brownies. They are cakes. Small square cakes. But these, these are brownies. Lovely, fudgy toffee brownies. (more…)
Posted in Bacon, Eggs, Main dish, Pasta, Vegetarian, tagged bacon, eggs, gnocchi, mushrooms, spinach on September 14, 2011| 8 Comments »
I subscribe to two cooking magazines, Good Food and Olive, and every month I fold down the pages of recipes I like the look of and then happily put the magazines on my bookshelf and forget all about them. When I look through them again, there are always recipes I’ve marked which are a bit different to my normal tastes, and I’m fairly certain I will never make them. This is one of those recipes, and this week I decided I was just going to go for it. If I didn’t like it, I could just not make it again. But I did like it. A lot. (more…)
Posted in Baking, Cake, Toffee/Caramel, tagged baking, cake, sticky toffee on September 13, 2011| 13 Comments »
It was my Nana’s 87th birthday at the weekend and we never, ever buy birthday cakes, so I offered to make a cake for her. My nan is one of those people who claims not to like chocolate (which we all know is LIES, but whatevs), so that rules out a lot of the cakes I like to make. Fortunately, this cake is just as ace as any chocolate cake. (more…)
Posted in Beef, Main dish, Pasta, tagged beef, cheese, pasta, steak on September 7, 2011| 8 Comments »
Philly cheese steak might be the best sammich ever invented, and pasta might be my favourite food ever, so it seemed only natural to combine the two. This is gooey, cheesy and unashamedly tacky. Make it and put it in your face. (more…)
Posted in Bacon, Creme fraiche, Egg yolks, Main dish, Pasta, Poultry, tagged bacon, carbonara, chicken, pasta on September 4, 2011| 5 Comments »
As I love to add courgette to EVERYTHING, I was excited when I saw a recipe for Courgette carbonara a couple of years ago in Jamie at Home by Jamie Oliver. I copied out the recipe and I’ve made it often ever since. Except that I haven’t, really. I’ve changed it every time until it’s morphed into something which doesn’t really resemble Jamie Oliver’s recipe at all, other than the fact that it has courgette in it. So I’m claiming it as my own. Is that too cheeky? (more…)
Posted in Main dish, Meatballs, tagged meatball sub, meatballs, sub on September 1, 2011| 2 Comments »
When I was at uni, Chris and I would go to Subway for lunch pretty much every week with our two most favouritest housemates (Hi Dave and Simmo!). I would always, always, always get a footlong meatball marinara and invariably end up with a tummy ache. But I didn’t care. I loved them. Meatballs, cheese and bread. What’s not to love? (more…)
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