Chicken and chorizo pasta with Spanish influences, sherry vinegar, parsley, sun-dried tomatoes & white wine form the sauce for this fab dish.
Quick recipes
Chicken egg foo yung is an omelette that is a real favourite in Chinese takeaways, which is quicker & cheaper and just as tasty made at home.
Indian salmon curry with a gloriously crispy skin sat in a golden yoghurt-based sauce is the perfect curry in a hurry midweek dinner!
Pan-fried lemon sole meuniere cooked on the bone and finished with a butter, lemon, caper and parsley sauce, classic simplicity at its best!
Prawn and chorizo pasta with sherry vinegar, smoked paprika & sun-dried tomatoes, yes, there are Spanish influences in this quick & easy dish.
Chicken and mushroom tagliatelle is a gloriously quick and easy pasta dish that gets a big whack of flavour from Worcestershire sauce!
Thai red beef curry in a spicy, hot, sweet & sour, coconut milk sauce, a gloriously quick & easy recipe featuring sugar snap peas & coriander.
Thai prawn stir fry with samphire and egg noodles in a sauce influenced by pad Thai featuring tamarind, oyster sauce & a little chilli heat.
Wild boar haunch steak, quickly pan-fried until cooked perfectly & served with a delicious blackberry sauce, a quick & easy way to cook hog.
Crab linguine is a lightning-quick pasta dish, my take on this popular combination features chilli and lemon & adds some delicious samphire!
Blue cheese gnocchi with asparagus and crispy bacon, the creamy sauce packs a real stilton punch in this quick and easy midweek meal.
Buttered cabbage is a quick and easy side dish; I use the Savoy variety and blanch it before it is sauteed in butter and fennel seeds.
Yaki udon noodles, a vegan take on a classic Japanese stir fry, my version uses shiitake mushrooms, pak choi & a delicious and easy sauce.
Sausage gnocchi in a rich and dark tomato sauce featuring sun-dried tomatoes and Worcestershire sauce, a delicious, easy and quick dinner.
Thai minced pork, my take on a relatively modern dish from Thailand known as pad kra pao, featuring ground meat stir-fried with Thai basil.
Masala chips are essentially "dirty" fries with a glorious Indian influence, they are great as a side dish or even as a movie night snack.
Choo chee curry is a delicious and spicy Thai dish that is typically made with fish, my version uses mackerel and it is simply divine.
Homemade currywurst or bratwurst served with a simple curry ketchup made from store cupboard staples, a true German street food legend!
Sweet and sour salmon fillets with a crispy skin served with lots of veggies and a from-scratch sauce that has all of the takeaway flavours.
Palak chicken or murgh is a North Indian and Pakistani curry featuring a creamy and fragrant spinach rich sauce or gravy that tastes divine.