Chicken liver pasta with mushrooms and a buttery sauce flavoured with sage and balsamic vinegar is a fantastically tasty and frugal dinner.
Quick recipes
Sardines in tomato sauce on toast are a cheap and nutritious meal, this recipe zhuzhs up tinned fish with chilli, capers and fresh tomato.
Chinese sausage (lap cheong) and egg fried rice, a quick and easy recipe featuring smoky sausage, green peas, soy sauce and black vinegar.
Curried cod is delightfully simple to make, a little curry powder, salt & curry leaves are all you need before you pan fry the fish in ghee.
BBQ chicken and bacon pasta finished with cheddar cheese is an easy & delicious recipe that embraces the flavours of British hunters chicken.
Halloumi fajitas, a vegetarian take on a spicy Mexican dish using Cypriot cheese, loads of veggies, sour cream and lime in a tortilla wrap.
Krumplis tészta is a gloriously satisfying, cheap and easy Hungarian "homestyle" meal that combines potatoes with onions, pasta and paprika.
Miso butter pasta is a quick and easy recipe with deep umami undertones, a little heat and fragrance from both black and pink peppercorns.
Shanghai chicken is a quick and easy stir fry featuring Chinese five spice and loads of garlic and ginger in a spicy, sweet and salty sauce.
Cod traybake with potatoes, broccoli and runner beans cooked in a herby olive oil is a quick and foolproof way to cook a fab fish supper.
Spam fried rice with Korean kimchi and gochujang to turn up the heat and garden peas to provide sweet notes to contrast the salt and chilli.
Spaghetti Napolitan is everything that there is to love about fusion food, heavenly Japanese pasta made with ketchup, smoked sausage & bacon!
Oven roasted hake fillets with olive oil, cherry tomatoes, capers and parsley screams of beautiful simplicity in this quick and easy recipe.
Teriyaki chicken noodles, my take on a quick stir fry embracing Japanese flavours and a few veggies is the perfect & quick midweek dinner.
Prawn saganaki is a popular Greek dish my version features large shelled shrimp cooked in tinned cherry tomatoes & finished with feta cheese.
Ho fun noodles, flat rice noodles stir-fried in a simple sauce with loads of veggies, are the perfect vegetarian Chinese-influenced fakeaway.
Beef yaki udon is a delicious, quick and easy Japanese-influenced stir fry featuring "chewy" noodles in black pepper and oyster sauce.
Spaghetti Napolitana or pomodoro is the simplest classic Italian tomato sauce for pasta, it's frugal, delicious, easy and very quick.
Masala baked beans on toast is a fun twist on a much loved British dish, it features Indian spices & flavours, with a good kick of chilli.
Chicken Milanese are bashed-out chicken breasts (cutlets) that are coated in parmesan cheese & breadcrumbs before being fried until golden.