These baked pears go off in a savoury direction & feature blue cheese, a savoury crumble & cider sauce and they are the perfect side dish for pork!
Recipes that take between 45 and 60 minutes
Oven-baked succulent pork chops served with a wonderful cider and blackberry sauce, silky Jerusalem artichoke puree and broccoli.
Fruity pineapple and chicken curry, a throwback to the 70s when Brits threw all sorts of fruit in curry, it is unusual, but it is delicious.
Roasted chicken legs are cooked with chicory or Belgian endive and shallots in a fab gravy given a lift by the addition of balsamic vinegar.
Roasted cauliflower steak is quickly seared and cooked in the oven with a glaze of pomegranate molasses and a sprinkling of zaatar and sumac.
Chicken ballotine filled with sage and onion stuffing and poached before being browned and served with a simple chicken and bacon gravy.
Celeriac soup is an easy, creamy, comforting recipe made from celery root; my version features the flavours of fennel and black pepper.
Tinned mackerel fish cakes loaded with parsley and capers in a crisp breadcrumb coating go a long way to prove that canned fish isn't rubbish!
Vegetarian brown rice stuffed mushrooms with cheddar cheese and balsamic vinegar that are just as good baked in the oven as on the BBQ.
Air fryer chicken cordon bleu is essentially a ham & cheese Kyiv, breast meat is butterflied & stuffed before being coated in breadcrumbs.
Leek and mushroom risotto with leeks and mushrooms cooked in balsamic vinegar, combined with wonderfully cheesy, creamy and comforting rice.
Cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup (aka Sunchoke) is a wonderfully simple and delicious recipe with rich sour cream and a hint of cumin.
Sweet potato tagine, a recipe gets a supporting hand from almonds, dates, sumac, dried mint and harissa for a real vegan flavour sensation!
Spaghetti and meatballs, my recipe contains juicy pork and beef balls with Parmesan and pine nuts and a superb but surprising tomato sauce.
Butternut squash tagine; a simple Moroccan-influenced vegetarian dish that also features onions, apricots, and almonds in a harissa sauce.
Chicken Balti is the pride of Birmingham and a curry not of Indian, but Anglo Bangladeshi heritage, dating from the 1970s, that went global!
A vegetable terrine can be as special as a meat terrine, this elegant pea and potato number is a dream for vegetarians and carnivores alike.
Hungarian chicken paprikash or csirkepaprikás is a classic Central European dish of bone-in chicken served in a paprika-rich sour cream sauce.
Elderflower is the archetypal flavour of the British summer; these are my recipes for homemade Elderflower Champagne and cordial.
Homemade sausages recipe for the perfect British pork banger, whether it is for a toad in the hole or bangers and mash, you need these!