Ruthie and Connie

Like Mexican? Try Fajitas

Fajitas originated in Mexico, made of beef skirt stakes with stir fried peppers and served on tortillas. But nowadays we have different variations in vegetables, like mushrooms, cooked with grilled meat - either chicken or beef and served with a tortilla. The meat is served as sizzlers on an iron platter with all the spices while the corn tortillas are served separately. They make a great party meal and go well with Margaritas or Mexican beer. Many of you must More

Stove Top Surprise

My oven has gone on the blink, so I am into fuel management and cooking on the stove top. I was inspired by the recent flop on master chef to try to adapt one of the loosing recipes. There was this brilliant seasonal vegetable dumplings with a yoghurt dressing. It didn’t go over that well because the people thought it was generally too spicy. The elements of the recipe that attracted me were the combination of vegetables and the yoghurt More

Lovely Lemon Chicken

This is one of those quirky recipes that I invented when I was trying to have a send off party for a friend moving to Athens. I love some Greek Recipes, but I was bored really and wanted to do something new. I also wanted to do something that was adaptable to how completely skint I am. This chicken dish turned out brilliant and it had a fresh yet creamy flavour that went down really well with all of More

Ni-talian

I have already admitted that Nigella is one of my personal guilty pleasures, I am a different type of cook, but I often spring board off of her recipes to think of new ideas and methods that I can use in my own cooking. The thing is, I never take notes, so certain ideas get stuck in my head, but they are often far different from what she actually did!

As I was trying to come up with great pork More

Speedy and Delicious

Some people think that making quick meals and loving food is a contradiction. There is often a deeply held belief that in order for food to be good it has to take absolutely forever to prepare. Here are two of my absolutely favourite and quickest dinners ever. One good rule of thumb to remember when trying to speed up dinner is to either make a vegetarian meal or use seafood, both of these options allow you to make sure your More

Nachos

Sometimes, its not so much the dish, but the technique that matters when creating something that you love to eat. Nachos can come in all shapes and sizes and include everything from chia seeds to black pudding, I have had traditional Mexican nachos where each tortilla chip is individually spread with refried beans, topped with melted cheese, then garnished with sour cream and salsa. Most versions entail a mess of tortilla chips, dumped on a plate covered in cheese and More

The Old Neighbourhood

You know how you remember places you live, by the great restaurants that were located nearby? Well, there was this great little gastro pub close to one of my old flats, we used to watch Alan Partridge online, and then go out on Wednesday nights for a 3 pound burger special. What made this pub great was that you had the option of getting blue cheese on your burger. It wasn’t just a mess of crumbled Stilton, but they More

Beef and Potato Tacos

A delicious, easy and inexpensive meal that can be made under half an hour is beef and potato tacos. Requiring no special or hard-to-find ingredients (you most likely have all or most of the ingredients in your pantry), this meal can be a go-to meal on a busy day when there’s no time to grocery shop or cook. Before you begin remember to take off your custom rings.

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Culinary Heritage

I was lucky enough to be able to entertain Paul Horton last week, and I was inspired to do something that celebrated my culinary heritage. I have been thinking a lot about wastefulness recently so, I have been exploring recipes that use somewhat stale bread. Bread pudding is the obvious, but you have the more elaborate choice of making a queen of puddings- which is a layer of bread crumbs cooked with milk, baked, then spread with jam or compote More

Sausage Casserole

I was looking for great pork recipes and was really interested in some of the delicious sausage casserole recipes that I saw. The thing is, it was a week night, I wasn’t going to go to the grocery shop to get the huge list of extravagant ingredients, so I decided to go my own way and create a week night sausage casserole from the random bits and bobs that I had at hand. It was so delicious that I have More