Slow cooker cauliflower cheese is the recipe you need, no oven is required and you even get brown cheese on top! It makes a great side to a roast dinner or a main vegetarian dish. A cheap and cheerful vegetarian dish, cauliflower cheese is a British favourite, which is served all year round. I love it best on the side with a roast chicken or gammon. Cauliflower is a versatile vegetable which can be used in many different ways, for example in a slow cooker vegetable curry, baked whole in the slow cooker, or blitzed in the blender as caulflower rice. Baked under a blanket of a rich cheese ..read more

Slow cooker tomato soup is full of flavour, comforting, creamy and rich and comes together so quickly. Roasted tomatoes form the basis of this simple recipe. Delicious thick homemade soup is great whatever the weather and season.  In the winter you’ll love to tuck into this warming soup, with chunks of bread thickly spread with butter to dip in.  In summer if you have a glut of homegrown tomatoes, it is a great recipe to turn to to use them up. Tomato soup is a favourite for many I think, as it reminds lots of us of being a child and those childhood meals of soup with lashings ..read more

Come the colder months, when you crave a comforting dessert, slow cooker bread and butter pudding is great option that will take you back to your childhood. Soft bread in a delicious rich custard with crispy edges, this dessert is a lovely economical option too, especially when you bake it in your slow cooker instead of the oven. Use up leftover bread that is going stale in this tasty pudding, along with some dried fruit. In winter I love this kind of traditional British dessert, it is simple to make but produces warming, rib-sticking results as a winter pud. Using the double cream makes thi ..read more

This slow cooker blackberry crumble is perfect for autumn or fall; the delicious fruit filling of apple and blackberry cooks at the same time as the crumble topping for a very easy dessert! Crumbles are popular in autumn and winter as they are such a lovely comforting warm pudding, delicious with custard, cream or ice cream! Blackberry crumble is perfect to use the late summer pickings of blackberries from your garden or local fruit farms. This recipe was inspired by my slow cooker apple crumble, which is incredibly popular at this time of year with my readers. My summer fruit crumble is deli ..read more

There is nothing better to warm you up than a chicken pie, my slow cooker chicken pie recipe has a creamy chicken filling flavoured with herbs. The filling is cooked in the slow cooker, then popped in a pie dish and baked in the oven to cook and crisp the pastry and you’re done! Chicken pie is a great homely and comforting dish which works well in the colder months but is suitable for all year round. This recipe includes leeks and chunks of ham, and the creamy sauce is made using creme fraiche. A touch of lemon zest and chopped parsley add freshness! I like to serve the dish with green veget ..read more

A delicious and easy blackcurrant traybake, or sheet cake, which makes seasonal blackcurrants the star of the show. Delicious almond sponge cake contains bursts of sweetness and a hint of tartness from the berries inside! My blackcurrant recipes are popular in July when blackcurrants are ripe. But if you freeze some after purchase or picking, then you can enjoy this tasty traybake cake all year round. This recipe was inspired by my apricot traybake recipe on this site, and is great with ice cream, custard or whipped cream. Traybake cakes are fab as you cut them into squares before serving, m ..read more

This blackcurrant ice cream recipe is an easy no churn ice cream made with just a handful of ingredients. You don’t need an ice cream maker to make it, just freeze overnight and you can tuck in! [feast_advanced_jump_to] No churn ice cream In this recipe for blackcurrant ice cream you’ll use double cream (heavy cream in the USA) and condensed milk to make the basis of the ice cream. This doesn’t require churning in an ice cream maker like traditional ice cream (usually made by making a custard, followed by churning in a machine), so it is really simple and quick. We cook down the blackcurrants ..read more

Passionfruit curd is a delicious way to enjoy the gorgeous tropical flavour of fresh passionfruit, in the form of a smooth curd! This recipe is a great way to use passionfruit in summer, so you can enjoy them in all your favourite bakes and desserts. This passionfruit curd was inspired by my apricot curd recipe on this site, as in summer I love to make all kinds of fruit jams and curds to enjoy fruit in all different ways. Strawberry curd is another summer favourite of mine. If you are in the USA you might call it passionfruit butter instead. It’s the same thing, just with a different name ..read more

This apple sponge pudding is a comforting apple filling topped with a delicious vanilla sponge cake, great served warm with custard or ice cream. I love the leftovers cold as apple sponge cake too! [feast_advanced_jump_to] My recipe is like a fusion of apple crumble base spiced with a little cinnamon but with a sponge cake topping instead of the crumble. While some apple pudding recipes make you stew the apples first, I find that sliced apples work really well in the dish without the need for precooking (just as they do in a crumble). This makes this recipe really easy and quick to prepare ..read more

This delicious Blackcurrant Sorbet is made with only three ingredients for a delicious fruity sorbet with all the flavour of your favourite blackcurrants. If you love blackcurrants then this easy sorbet recipe will make the ideal summer dessert for you. During blackcurrant season, which is in July in the UK, sorbet is a great option to make to combat the oppressive heat and use your freshly picked blackcurrants at the same time. This was inspired by my blackcurrant curd recipe, having enjoyed some curd stirred into natural yoghurt this got me thinking of more chilled dessert recipes to try w ..read more