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Bowls Comfort Food Fries halloumi Recipes Side dishes Sides

Halloumi Burgers

Another take on halloumi fries, great as a Friday lunchtime treat or to replace your normal beef burger. Crisp and soft – I serve mine in a brioche bun, with some roasted garlic and mint yogurt, grilled peppers and chilli jam. All you need is: Ingredients – serves 2 A block of halloumi 2 tbsp […]

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Aubergine Comfort Food Every thing tastes good in tortilla Lunch Recipes Roasted Vegetables Sauces Side dishes Sides Sweet Potato Vegetables

Roasted Aubergine and Sweet Potato Salsa

Roasted Aubergine and Sweet Potato Salsa – it’s amazing… all sticky, smokey, sweet and packed full of flavour. It also goes well with chicken shawarma or in a toastie. Once you’ve made it, it’ll keep in the fridge for a couple of days. Ingredients: 1 aubergine 1 sweet potato 1 onion 2 cloves of garlic […]

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Bakes Breads Lunch Recipes

Easy Single Rise Daily Seeded Bread

My daily bread – half seeded loaf This is a single rise easy loaf that is perfect to make everyday or every other day. It’s quick and simple to make. Easier than going to the shops and not full of preservatives. You can either cold rise overnight and bake first thing or mix in the […]

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Breads Focaccia Lunch Recipes Sandwich Board Sandwiches

Yellow Pepper and Goats Cheese Focaccia

This is somewhere between a focaccia and a pizza. Lovely soft dough with basil and goats cheese tucked in the dough, topped with sweet charred peppers. This recipe makes one big focaccia, but I normally make the full dough recipe, then cut in half. Making one salami and tomato and another a yellow pepper and […]

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Breads Focaccia Lunch Recipes Sandwich Board Sandwiches

Salami and tomato Focaccia

This is somewhere between a focaccia and a pizza. Lovely soft dough with sweet tomato and crispy salty saucisson sec tucked into it. This recipe makes one big focaccia, but I normally make the full dough recipe and with half make a salami and tomato focaccia and the other half a yellow pepper and goats […]

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Bakes Banana Chocolate Recipes Sweet

Peanut Butter, Banana and Cocoa Vegan Flapjack Bars

Sticky gooey fulfilling homemade vegan cycling snacks I run, I cycle and I snack. This means I normally have a bar of some description in my back or pocket, whether it’s for me or to provide sustenance on a family outing. My problem is I don’t like buying processed products if I can avoid it. […]

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Chicken Comfort Food Dinner Meat Recipes

Garlic Roast Chicken

I didn’t want to make your usual roast, but also with such a good bird I didn’t want to go crazy with flavours. In the end I went for some old favourites – garlic, fresh herbs and citrus.

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Bakes cookies Recipes

Oaty spiced cookies

Oaty spiced cookies, just the smell makes you feel hungry. Cinnamon and ginger hangs in the air and the bite of the oats almost convinces you they are healthy. I’m well and truly bored with lockdown, but one of the benefits is that I can’t rush around, going places. This means I’ve managed to find […]

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Bowls Comfort Food Lunch Recipes Soups Stew

Slow cooked chicken and chorizo soup

This slow cooked soup is just what you need on a cold winters day. Spicy chorizo, melt in the mouth chicken surrounded with strands of peppers and onion. The sauce has the zing of paprika, tomatoes and the sweetness from orange juice and cinnamon. All those great warming flavours topped with creamy feta and spring […]

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bagels Breads Recipes

Homemade Bagels

Homemade Bagel – I’d always put making my own bagels in the too hard box, but they’re no harder than making your own bread.