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Roast Duck with Chestnut Stuffing
23 December 2022
A roast duck is a splendid thing any time of year, but at Christmas it makes a welcome change from...
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Vegetarian Christmas Wreath
16 December 2022
Here's an idea for a tasty and great-looking Christmas dinner centrepiece. The shortcrust...
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Cinnamon Rolls Christmas Tree
02 December 2022
Cinnamon rolls are a delicious treat all year round, but for the festive season why not make it...
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Lasagna British Style
25 November 2022
Italians and Americans both have quite different ideas of what lasagna is, but this is what Brits...
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Lorne Sausage
18 November 2022
Lorne Sausage from Scotland is also known as square sausage, sliced sausage, square slice and flat...
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Morning Rolls
18 November 2022
Morning rolls, or breakfast rolls are a Scottish tradition. They have a soft, fluffy interior and a...
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Cock-a-Leekie Soup
11 November 2022
This traditional Scots soup of chicken, leeks and prunes, is usually served as part of a Burn's...
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The Best Cheese on Toast
04 November 2022
Basic cheese on toast is a superb quick and easy tummy filler, but this slightly more elaborate...
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Toffee Apple Cake and Caramel Apples
28 October 2022
In Britain, toffee apples were associated with Bonfire Night, fairgrounds, and more recently with...
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Chicken Fricassée
21 October 2022
Chicken fricassee is a very old French dish. The word 'fricassee' refers both to the...
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Pie and Mash with Liquor
14 October 2022
Dating from the times when London's River Thames was cleaner and full of life, these pies...
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Cassoulet
07 October 2022
There are three main variations on cassoulet - the one from Toulouse uses mutton, the Castelnaudary...
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Hummus
30 September 2022
Hummus is becoming increasingly popular outside its native Mediterranean / Middle Eastern home....
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Apple Strudel
23 September 2022
This delicious dessert is a miracle of engineering - a ton of apple filling held together by the...
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Cajun Jambalaya
16 September 2022
There are two main types of jambalaya - Creole, which is common in New Orleans and is coloured red...
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Air Fryer Cheese Scones
09 September 2022
Air fryers are becoming ever more popular because they are so cheap to run. Despite the misleading...
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Air Fryer Chicken
02 September 2022
We're all familiar with southern fried chicken, but here's a cheaper and healthier way to...
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Apple Pie
26 August 2022
As American as apple pie? Well no, not really. In fact apple pie originated in England as early as...
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Boerewors South African Sausage
19 August 2022
Boerewors - farmer's sausage - is a classic of South African cuisine. It's a long, coiled...
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Nargisi Kofta Indian Scotch Egg
12 August 2022
It is said that nargisi kofta was the inspiration for the invention of the scotch egg by Fortnum...
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Spanakopita Greek Spinach and Feta Pie
05 August 2022
This pie is a great Greek holiday favourite. Very tasty and not hard to...
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Chicken Gyros, Tzatziki and Pita Bread
29 July 2022
In a restaurant or takeaway, the meat for a gyro would be cooked on a vertical rotisserie,...
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Cornflake Tart
22 July 2022
Cornflake tart was a very popular dessert served in UK schools during the 70s and 80s. It's...
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Butter Chicken - Murgh Makhani
08 July 2022
Butter chicken originated in Delhi in the 50s, and is definitely not a dish for the calorie...
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Omelette Arnold Bennett
01 July 2022
Omelette Arnold Bennett originated in the 1930s when the writer stayed at the Savoy Hotel in London...
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Thai Green Curry with Jasmine Rice
24 June 2022
Thai green curry is probably one of Thailand's best-known dishes. It's not too hot and has...
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Tartiflette | Potato Cheese and Bacon Casserole
17 June 2022
Tartiflette comes from the Savoy region of the French Alps. It's a warming casserole of...
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Egg and Bacon Pie
10 June 2022
This is a brilliantly simple pie that you can have any time of day including breakfast or on a...
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Union Jack Victoria Sponge Cake
03 June 2022
I made my version of the official amaretti and lemon trifle a few weeks ago. It was challenging, so...
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Lentil Soup
27 May 2022
There's a lot of food poverty in the UK these days and I made a video of this recipe in...
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Platinum Pudding / Jubilee Trifle
20 May 2022
June 2022 sees the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne. To...
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Carne Asada
13 May 2022
Carne asada - grilled (or roasted) meat in Spanish, is no ordinary beef steak. It's lifted to...
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Banana Bread
10 May 2022
Banana bread is ridiculously simple to make and it's the perfect way to use up those black...
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Mexican-ish Pork Burgers with Chipotle Relish
06 May 2022
This juicy pork burger is flavoured with fennel seeds and smoky chipotle chilli - it's easy to...
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Meat Pie Floater | Australian Minced Beef Pie in Pea Soup
29 April 2022
I first heard about this extraordinary item of drunk food when I read about it in Terry...
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Cheese Soufflé
22 April 2022
Most cooks and many chefs are afraid of making soufflés, because a collapsed soufflé...
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Chicken Tacos with Flour Tortillas and Pico de Gallo
15 April 2022
These soft-shell chicken tacos are easy to make, packed with colour and flavour and a whole lot of...
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Gluten Free Pastry Cheese and Onion Pie
08 April 2022
Gluten is seen as an undesirable thing by many people these days (coeliacs excepted, they really...
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Crème Brûlée
01 April 2022
This amazingly simple dessert is more or less the same as the Spanish/Catalunian Crema Catalan....
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Eton Mess
01 April 2022
Eton mess originated at the ultra-posh Eton College. Nobody seems too sure about the origin of the...
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Fish Fingers
25 March 2022
Fish fingers, or fish sticks, were introduced in the 1950s as a convenient way to consume fish...
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Chicken Balti Pie
18 March 2022
The balti style of of curry was invented in Birmingham and became very popular in the 80s and...
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Bacon Roly Poly
11 March 2022
I love suet pastry, whether it's surrounding a steak and kidney pudding, rolled in a jam roly...
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Make Black Pudding From Scratch
11 March 2022
The idea of making a kind of sausage using congealed pigs blood is one that is fairly widespread...
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Jam Roly Poly
04 March 2022
Heavy, stodgy, overly sweet - the badly-made jam roly poly served at my school was everything...
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Chocolate Fudge Cake
26 February 2022
Chocolate fudge cake, sometimes known as death by chocolate, is a glorious chocolatey cake that...
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Hearty Chicken and Leek Soup
18 February 2022
When it's cold and miserable outside, a warm steaming bowl of thick soup is just what you need...
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Cheese Toastie | Grilled Cheese sandwich
11 February 2022
When I was a kid we had cheese on toast, but never as a sandwich with a lid on. That came later,...
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Chicken Parmos (Chicken Parmesan)
04 February 2022
If you're not from the north-east of England, you're probably scratching your head and...
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Venison Pastie
28 January 2022
Venison pasties have a long and venerable history, having been mentioned by Shakespeare in The...
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Leeks au Gratin
21 January 2022
Leeks au gratin is a delicious way to prepare leeks. It's cheesy, creamy and crunchy, easy to...
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Hay Baked Chicken
21 January 2022
Hay baked chicken is sealed in a casserole with dough. It's packed with hay around the chicken...
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Chicken Egg Foo Young
14 January 2022
Egg foo young is one of those dishes that has been adapted for western tastes, and in fact there...
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Aloo Gobi Punjabi-style
07 January 2022
This potato and cauliflower curry is not the same as you'd get in a British Indian Restaurant -...
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