Cranberry sauce and brie stuffed chicken wrapped in bacon is a delicious centrepiece for a meal and can be cooked in the oven or air fryer. The chicken takes around 15-20 minutes to cook in the air fryer and around 25-30 minutes to cook in the oven. Preparation takes around 15 minutes, but that can be done up to 24 hours in advance! Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chicken Breast Bacon-wrapped stuffed chicken is always magic and it’s something I return to fairly often on my website. I’ve got everything from a British pub style hunters chicken to Scottish haggis stuffed chicken Balmoral and its black [bu ..read more

Teriyaki mushrooms make for a superb quick and easy vegan/vegetarian meal, my version rocks Portobello and Shiitake stir-fried in a homemade sauce. Preparation for this recipe takes a leisurely 10 minutes and cooking takes 8-10 minutes, making this a wonderfully quick dinner. Quick Vegan Mushroom Stir Fry I love playing around with teriyaki sauce, that whole sweet and salty thing really does float my boat. I’ve got recipes for everything from teriyaki prawns to teriyaki beef meatballs and teriyaki tofu to a teriyaki duck donburi rice bowl. My latest offering is some quickly stir-fried vegan t ..read more

Pea, asparagus and broad bean risotto is the perfect spring dish that features a lovely hint of lemon and plenty of parmesan cheese. Like all of my risotto recipes, this dish is traditionally cooked and takes around 45-50 minutes to prepare and cook. Spring Vegetable Risotto I love a good bowl of risotto, to me it is the ideal TV dinner, it’s a big bowl of loveliness that I so often associate with winter. However risotto isn’t just a winter warmer, my site is littered with lighter spring and summer risotto recipes. I have everything from a lovely lemon and prawn risotto to a marvellous basil ..read more

Hotch Potch is a gloriously light yet hearty Scottish lamb stew, my version is made with lamb neck chops & is packed with spring vegetables. Despite a fairly long cooking time (a little over 90 minutes), this delicious recipe is really easy to make and it is a firm favourite springtime meal in our house. Hairst Bree or Harvest Broth Hotch potch is yet another fine example of idiosyncratic names for British recipes… I love them and collect them like Boy Scout badges! Toad in the hole, cock a leekie soup, bubble and squeak, bangers and mash and of course spotted dick, all make me feel very ..read more

Bangers and mash with onion gravy is an all-time British favourite, this recipe is a timing plan to help get it all perfect at the same time. It begins with my favourite port-laden onion gravy, perfect buttery mashed potatoes, stonkingly good sausages and even some greens! Classic Sausage, Mash and Onion Gravy Aside from a roast beef Sunday lunch it’s hard to think of a British dinner more evocative than bangers and mash with some onion gravy! Just like my “recipe” for a full English breakfast, this is first and foremost a timing plan to help you get everything cooked perfectly and all ready ..read more

Clapshot is a Scottish dish from Orkney and it is a wonderfully easy swede and potato (tattie) mash loaded with fresh chives and butter. This is a very simple recipe, with very little time spent actively cooking or preparing the dish, it will go from your cupboard to your table in around 45 minutes. Scottish Mashed Swede and Potato Clapshot is a magical name for a very gloriously simple dish. It is nothing more than a swede and potato mash. The name comes from the Orkney’s an archipelago of islands off the north coast of Scotland. Like many Brits, I love a good mash with my tea and this dish ..read more

Baked halloumi cheese and brown rice stuffed peppers get a punch of flavour and a bit of chilli heat thanks to Tunisian rose harissa paste. These peppers take around an hour to cook and prepare, however, the stuffing can be made up to 2 days in advance. Spicy Brown Rice Stuffed Peppers I love halloumi cheese, I think it is endlessly versatile, and it goes without saying, as tasty as a very tasty thing. I feature it in everything from an Indian-inspired halloumi curry to a sumac and zaatar halloumi burger and a loosely Italian-influenced halloumi pasta to some North African inspired halloumi k ..read more

Bacon ribs slowly braised in the oven until tender then finished with a simple, sticky apricot & mustard glaze, these things are very moreish! The long (2½ hour) cooking time for this recipe masks how wonderfully easy this dish is to make, and you’ll definitely be back for more! Glazed Cured Pork Ribs I love ribs, they are the finest sharing finger food as far as I am concerned and my site is littered with them. I have everything from oven-baked BBQ ribs to some glorious Instant Pot cooked Chinese spare ribs and even smoked BBQ pork ribs! My latest offering is some wonderful apricot jam a ..read more

Honey and miso glazed salmon fillet is a wonderfully quick Japanese-inspired recipe that cooks quickly under a fiercely hot grill (broiler). When I say quick, the glaze takes around 5-6 minutes to cook and can be done whilst the grill is heating, then the fish takes another 7-8 minutes to be perfectly cooked. Grilled Glazed Salmon with Japanese Influences I adore cooking with fish and salmon is one of my favourites, and as a result, I cook with it a lot. It sits alongside bog flavours really well and I’ve used it in recipes as diverse as jerk salmon to an Indian salmon curry and harissa salmo ..read more

Oxtail and potato curry packed to the gunnels with spicy Indian influences, it is slowly cooked to deliver tender, melt-in-the-mouth beef. This recipe takes around 4 hours to cook from scratch (including preparation), but you spend most of that time drinking in the heady aroma with your feet up! Indian-Influenced Oxtail Stew Beef is not a meat commonly associated with Indian food for cultural reasons. However, the flavours in Indian cuisine work exceptionally well with beef. I have several examples of this already on my site, everything from beef dopiaza, beef bhuna to beef vindaloo and a won ..read more