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Chefstemp FinalTouch X10 Review
A food thermometer is pretty much essential if you're serious about cooking, and the Chefstemp FinalTouch X10 is the best I've ever used.

Chicken Balti Pie
The balti style of of curry was invented in Birmingham and became very popular in the 80s and 90s. And then somebody had the brilliant idea of putting balti curry into a pie. Balti pies are massively popular at football matches and elsewhere.

Bacon Roly Poly
I love suet pastry, whether it's surrounding a steak and kidney pudding, rolled in a jam roly poly, or enveloping bacon, onion and stuffing. It's proper comfort food.

Jam Roly Poly
Heavy, stodgy, overly sweet - the badly-made jam roly poly served at my school was everything doctors warn us against. But this one is actually quite light, not too sweet, and utterly wonderful.

Chocolate Fudge Cake
Chocolate fudge cake, sometimes known as death by chocolate, is a glorious chocolatey cake that will give your doctor palpitations. Not for every day, but now and again this is a very special treat.

Hearty Chicken and Leek Soup
When it's cold and miserable outside, a warm steaming bowl of thick soup is just what you need to cheer you up. This hearty chicken and leek soup is a perfect winter warmer.

Cheese Toastie | Grilled Cheese sandwich
When I was a kid we had cheese on toast, but never as a sandwich with a lid on. That came later, probably with the invention of the Breville™ Sandwich Toaster. I found them too greasy, but you don't need the machine, you can actually make them on a griddle or skillet. Just amazing!

Venison Pastie
Venison pasties have a long and venerable history, having been mentioned by Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Samuel Pepys in his diaries. Because availability of deer was restricted to the 'upper classes', venison was not something ordinary folk could (legally) get hold of. These days venison is sometimes available at supermarkets as well as butchers who deal in game. My version of venison pastie precooks the meat in a tasty red wine sauce.

Chicken Parmos (Chicken Parmesan)
If you're not from the north-east of England, you're probably scratching your head and wondering what a parmo is. Well, it's a flattened out chicken breast, coated in breadcrumbs and smothered with bechamel sauce and cheese. Parmos are very popular in the area around Middlesboro and are frequently consumed late at night after a drinking session.

Hay Baked Chicken
Hay baked chicken is sealed in a casserole with dough. It's packed with hay around the chicken and the hay gives it a wonderful fresh springlike flavour. The chicken basically steams in the casserole, retaining all of its juices and making it wonderfully tender.

Leeks au Gratin
Leeks au gratin is a delicious way to prepare leeks. It's cheesy, creamy and crunchy, easy to make and really tasty.

Aloo Gobi Punjabi-style
This potato and cauliflower curry is not the same as you'd get in a British Indian Restaurant - it's dry rather than saucy, and there's no tomato in it. It's very simple and easy to make, so why not give it a try?

Chicken Egg Foo Young
Egg foo young is one of those dishes that has been adapted for western tastes, and in fact there are 2 very distinct versions. British Chinese restaurant egg foo young is pretty much just scrambled egg trying to be an omelette. This American carryout version, though, is much more interesting - it's deep-fried, comes with a saucy gravy and is very easy to make.

Christmas Dinner Pastie
For a change from turkey curry, how about making these Christmas dinner pasties - they're a great way to use up some leftover turkey, stuffing, pig-in-blanket and gravy. And even if you don't have any of those left over it's quite easy to make everything from scratch.

Make Black Pudding From Scratch
The idea of making a kind of sausage using congealed pigs blood is one that is fairly widespread throughout the world. The French have their boudin noir, the Spanish their morcilla and the Brits their black pudding, or blood pudding.

Eton Mess
Eton mess originated at the ultra-posh Eton College. Nobody seems too sure about the origin of the 'mess' part of it, but that can be what it looks like. It is not an elegant dish!

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