This easy chicken cottage pie is a slightly healthier, vegetable-stuffed version of the original. The perfect, comforting weeknight dinner. What is cottage pie? Cottage pie is a meat pie traditionally made with beef topped with mashed potatoes. The meat (beef mince/ground beef) is cooked with aromatics like onion, carrot, celery and garlic with stock,…
Sour Cream Lemon Cake
Incredibly moist and so lemony, this easy sour cream lemon cake is a one-bowl wonder and perfect as a treat or simple dessert. There is no cake I love as much as lemon cake. And this sour cream lemony wonder is the easy lemon cake of my dreams. Not only does it only take one…
Steak with Gorgonzola sauce
Perfectly cooked steak served with creamy Gorgonzola sauce flavored with rosemary and garlic is the easy dinner recipe of your dreams. There are few things as perfect as a steak cooked to perfection blanketed in Gorgonzola cream sauce. If you’re not a blue cheese lover, this might not be for you but even my daughter…
Slow Braised Oxtail
Slow braised oxtail cooked in a delicious, rich sauce is pull-apart tender, unctuous and perfect served on a bed of creamy mashed potatoes. Oxtail cooked low and slow is kind of a big deal in my family. The unctuous meat cooked until fall-apart tender is the stuff cravings are made of. We love it for…
Pumpkin Pie
This pumpkin pie recipe is easy and delicious. Spiced with cinnamon, cardamom and ginger and baked on a homemade crust, it’s the perfect fall dessert. How to make pumpkin pie Making your own crust is the first step to making a delicious pie. My recipe is easy and the end result is almost like shortbread…
Halloween mummy berry hand pies
These Mummy berry hand pies make the most adorable Halloween treats. Using only a handful of ingredients, they couldn’t be easier and they’ll be a sure hit! OK guys, let’s talk about these adorable little pies for a minute. How cute? I made these pies filled with berry preserves/jam a while ago and they were…
Curry roasted sweet potatoes
Roasted sweet potatoes flavored with curry spices and roasted until soft, sweet and slighly caramelized is a delicious and easy side dish recipe. Roasted sweet potatoes have been one of my favorite side dishes for the longest time. Sweet potatoes are always a good idea in my book but when they are flavored with aromatic…
Swirly garlic rolls
These swirly garlic rolls are so adorable and almost too beautiful to eat. Stuffed with garlic herb butter, you won’t be able to help yourself though! There’s just something about garlic bread, isn’t there? I haven’t met a single person who doesn’t like garlic bread. While its baking, my mouth starts watering and it takes…
Creamy spiced carrot soup
Creamy spiced carrot soup is an easy and delicious soup recipe, perfect for chilly days when you just need a bowl of soup to warm you up. Carrots aren’t an ingredient I tend to use much on their own. Of course they go into every stew and most bases of soups, etc. But on their…
Tandoori Chicken
Juicy Tandoori chicken baked in the oven is a delicious, easy recipe perfect for dinner served with naan bread, rice and cucumber salad. This is the perfect recipe to make when you need to feed a crowd. The chicken is a slam dunk. Using boneless chicken thighs means the end result is ridiculously juicy and…
Easy tomato soup with grilled cheese
Easy roasted tomato soup served with a simple, extra-cheesy grilled cheese sandwich is comfort food personified. Served with a swirl of cream and fresh basil, it’s your childhood favorite all grown up. There are few things that scream “home” and “comfort”as much as a bowl of creamy tomato soup served with a grilled cheese sandwich….
Garlic mushroom grilled cheese
Garlic butter fried mushrooms and aged cheddar cheese make this mushroom grilled cheese the ultimate easy lunch or dinner recipe. We are a family of grilled cheese lovers. Golden, toasted bread stuffed with all the cheese? Uh, yes please! This version with mushrooms is a total game changer. Not only are the mushrooms fried in…
Apple fritters with Masala-spiced sugar
Light and fluffy apple fritters stuffed with chunks of juicy, tart apple coated in aromatic Masala sugar is the sweet snack or easy dessert of your dreams. When I saw a version of these apple fritters on a cooking show years ago, I knew I had to make my own version. I was so intrigued…
Easy Teriyaki Chicken
Sweet and sticky Teriyaki Chicken in homemade Teriyaki sauce is the perfect easy dinner recipe served with rice and a simple cucumber salad. I love this easy Teriyaki chicken recipe for those nights when I don’t have much time to get something on the table for dinner. The chicken takes minutes to make because I…
Poison Toffee Apples for Halloween
These black Poison toffee/candy apples are the ultimate wickedly sinister Halloween treat and will make an excellent centerpiece. As a child, eating a toffee/candy apple was the ultimate delight. I never felt guilty because well, it’s an apple! Yes, it has tons of sugar around it but who cares? It’s fruit! I would always crack…
Spiced apple muffins with honey butter
These easy, healthy-ish apple muffins spiced with cinnamon, ginger and all spice served with honey butter are a delicious fall breakfast or snack. I’m not going to beat around the bush. These muffins are BOMB! They are stuffed to the brim with juicy, sweet chunks of apple and spiced with all the warming spices you…
Baked cornflake chicken
Crispy, crunchy cornflake chicken baked until golden is the perfect recipe for family dinner, served with creamy mashed potatoes and gravy. I have been making this easy cornflake chicken for as long as I can remember. It’s the perfect healthy-ish dinner when my kids ask for fried chicken and is so much easier than making…
Dementor’s Kiss Cocktail
The Dementor’s Kiss is the perfect Halloween cocktail. Dark, mysterious and delicious, this cocktail won’t steal your soul, but it might steal the show! Come October, I am ready for all things Festive. And no movie puts me into a more magical, festive mood than Harry Potter. It’s a love instilled by my mom. She…
Butternut squash curry with crispy chickpeas
Creamy butternut squash curry is vegetarian dinner perfection served with crispy chickpeas and steamed rice. Warm and comforting, it’s ideal for fall meals. I am an absolute curry-obsessive. Curry in any way, shape or form is a win for me. I have been loving all forms of vegetable curry lately. I have made cauliflower curry…
Creamy Mushroom Soup
Creamy mushroom soup flavored with garlic and thyme is the perfect comfort meal for fall served with crusty bread, it’s like a hug in a bowl. My mom made mushroom soup for us all the time. It was one of her stand-out recipes and for so many years, I couldn’t figure out what she did…
Triple chocolate coconut brownies
Say hello to squidgy, intensely chocolatey and absolutely addictive brownie heaven. Because that’s what we’re serving up around these parts today. A few years ago, my husband and I ran a market stall at a popular food market and our best seller was without-a-doubt our brownies. Every Saturday we would pile them high and within…