This recipe is really all about the sauce, it brings so much flavour to the dish. Feel free to use different proteins and vegetables, it is actually a really good clean out the vegetable crisper dish. You can even make it totally vegetarian by simply swapping out the 250gm of […]
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This authentic Italian pasta sauce is the one Gennaro Contaldo grew up eating as a child. It is full of pork, beef and sausage, a real meat lovers treat. Perfect for cooking during lockdown as it makes a tonne so leftovers for days. Yes, it does take over 2 hours […]
If you are a follower of my blog you will already know I love a good soup and this one is a winner. It is light and bright from the lemon, not earthy like most lentil soups are. Here I have cooked it in the electric pressure cooker but if […]
As my Chinese friend Connie would say, this is “Aussie Chinese”, actually not only is it “Aussie Chinese”, it is also 1960’s “Aussie Chinese”. My family has been making this recipe for as long as I can remember, it’s comfort food to us all. In times like these, when many […]
This cumin, garlic, citrus marinated pork recipe yields meat as tender as can be, you barely need the forks to shred it. Serve it with its juices over rice or tuck it into tortillas with all your favourite taco toppings. If you don’t have a pressure cooker I’m sure you […]
This pasta sauce makes a nice change to the normal everyday spag bol. It takes about the same time to cook but has a richness to it due to the full flavour (and fattiness) of the lamb mince. You can leave out the anchovies or fish sauce if you are […]
This is a quick and easy homemade BBQ sauce, made with ingredients that I’m sure you already have in your pantry. It’s is great served simply along side a steak but also makes a great basting sauce for ribs or chicken on your BBQ. We have been making it on […]
There are so many recipes out there for chilli con carne, from pretty authentic with different dried chillies to just savoury mince with some chilli added. This is a pretty standard but tasty chilli that you can spice up or down to suit you and your families taste and best […]
This hot fudge sauce is the easiest thing to make. It only takes about 10 minutes from start to ice cream! It keeps for ever in the fridge not that our first batch lasted longer than a week. Just spoon a little into a dish and microwave it for 10 […]
This chipotle mayo is pure magic, it turns any sandwich, burger into something totally delicious. You can customise it your level of heat tolerance by adding more mayonnaise and sour cream if it is too hot or simply adding more chipotle in adobo if you like more heat. The chipotle […]