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So after the virtuous fruity summer salads earlier in the week we deserve a treat, right?
This is one of the nicest desserts I’ve made and so simple! All you have to do is either griddle or barbecue some fresh wedges of pineapple. In a seperate pot make a syrup from brown sugar and rum, add a few fresh or dried chilli flakes. Serve pineapple with syrup over the top with good quality ice cream.

Fruit in a salad, I’m probably way behind the times but it’s a revelation. Here are two of my favourites;
Feta & Pineapple Salad

Ingredients;
Feta
Fresh pineapple
Fresh mint
Salad leaves
Dressing – lemon, olive oil, sea salt, pepper
Watermelon and Goats Cheese Salad

Watermelon
Goats cheese
Salad leaves
Pine nuts
Croutons
Dressing – lemon, olive oil, sea salt, pepper

I recently added Eric Lanlard’s Home Bake to my ever expanding collection of baking books and have been enjoying experimenting with some of his ideas. One of the recipes is for Malteser Squares which I thought was a fun twist on the traditional tiffin! I have used Eric’s idea with my own tiffin recipe as I thought the one in the book was a little light on the sugar! It’s such a simple recipe that it’s ideal for making with little ones.
Ingredients:
100g unsalted butter
250g milk chocolate
4 tbsp golden syrup
4 tbsp …

Ok so it sounds a little weird but this is an adaptation of Jamie Oliver’s ‘Coley Korma’ and my husband professed it the best thing I’ve ever made! And no, that’s not because I’m a rubbish cook!
Ingredients
Haddock Fillet
Basmati rice
Korma paste
Low fat coconut milk
Coriander
Chilli
Spring onion
Lemon
1. Gently fry 1/4 of a jar of korma paste.
2. Add the haddock fillets and spread the paste over the flesh so the spices flavour the fish. Fry for a few minutes.
3. Add the coconut milk and simmer gently for about 15 minutes …

Englishmum and I have decided to have a little soup swap today. I made this fragrant chicken soup of hers when she first published it back in 2007 and it was delicious so we’ve pulled the recipe from the archives just for you
Once you’ve devoured this one check out my onion soup over at hers.
Fragrant Chicken Soup with Lentils
1 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, finely chopped
4 spring onions, sliced thinly
1 tsp Garam Masala or curry powder would do I guess
1 bowl cooked chicken, shredded
2 chicken stock cubes …

This is a slideshow of my chilli beef stir fry, very simple, very tasty.

One of my favourite things to do on christmas eve is cook lots of yummy picky bits, here’s a few things I’ll be making this year, not difficult but should be very tasty
Chicken Satay
100ml Soy
4tbsp Peanut butter
Chicken fillets
1. Heat soy and peanut butter in a pot, once it’s melded together leave to cool completely.
2. Pour marinade over chicken and leave for up to 24 hours.
3. Bake chicken for 15-20mins or until cooked.
4. Thread onto skewers and serve.
Coronation Chicken Vol au Vents
Mayonnaise
Curry Paste
Grapes
Chicken
Mango Chutney
Vol au …

This one is completely my own recipe made up of leftovers, it wasn’t perfect – please see possible improvements at the bottom
Ingredients
Slice of Crusty Brown Bread
Potato
Red Onion
Chorizo
Olive Oil
1. Par-boil diced potatoes.
2. Fry onions, add potatoes and chopped chorizo
3. Once everything is golden. Set aside.
4. Place the slice of bread into pan to toast in juices from chorizo and onions, add a little olive oil if necessary.
Serve toasted bread topped with chorizo hash.
Although tasty it was a little dry, I’d suggest either adding …

This recipe involves using a base roast tomato sauce which came about when I accidentally bought six punnets of tomatoes online. The base sauce can be frozen and used for any tomato based dish.
Base Sauce;
Roast Tomatoes
Salt
Sugar
Pepper
Olive Oil
Garlic
1. Line up tomatoes and garlic cloves, sprinkle with a teaspoon of sugar, a couple of teaspons of sea salt or rock salt, grind over some black pepper and coat with olive oil.
2. Roast at 180 degrees for an hour, or until tomatoes are soft.
3. Remove tomatoes and oil, blend, …

This mousse recipe was one I got from Good Food magazine. It’s one of the easiest and tastiest I’ve made to date and I think the little extra garnishes with this dish make it ideal dinner party fodder.

Serves 7
60ml milk
5 Mars Bars
4 Egg Whites
4 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
Chilli chocolate
Strawberries
Green & Black’s White Chocolate
1. Melt mars bars, milk and cocoa powder together in a pot. Once melted leave to cool for 15 minutes.
2. Whisk egg whites to soft peaks (get husband to do this if you don’t have …