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Loaded Potato Skins - Bacon and Cheese
I've always loved a simple baked potato, just cut open and stuff with things like butter and salt, baked beans and cheese, maybe some chilli con carne if you were feeling exotic. But the loaded potato skin takes a simple baked potato to a whole new level.

Porchetta / Hot Pork Roll
Slow-roasted pork belly must be one of the most delicious things ever, and also pretty cheap. Historically, porchetta was a whole boned and rolled suckling pig spit-roasted over a fire. This one is a bit more manageable - pork belly with plenty of herbs, rolled and slow-roasted. Then served in a bun with crackling, stuffing and gravy. Dirty, drippy and decadent.

Homemade Crisps
I am always baffled that the English-speaking world can't agree on what is a potato chip, and what is a crisp. But then neither can the Spanish, where 'patatas fritas' means both chips and crisps. I digress. We love to eat these crunchy little things, and they are surprisingly easy to make at home. Why not give it a go!

Leftover Turkey Curry
Leftover turkey. What to do with it? Well, you can do many things, but this leftover turkey curry is quick and easy, and very tasty. I've deliberately kept the spicing simple to make it easier.

Beef Tacos
Tacos spread from Mexico to the US and hit the mainstream when Glenn Bell began opening his Taco Bell restaurants. I don't claim any kind of authenticity for this recipe, it's just a simple adaptation that's really easy to make and absolutely delicious.

Cheese and Mushroom Omelettes
A basic omelette is incredibly quick and easy to make, and makes a delicious breakfast or light lunch. You can use pretty much anything in your filling, but things like cheese, ham or bacon and veggies like mushrooms, spinach and onions go particularly well.

Mulligatawny Soup Recipe
When the British ruled India, they wanted soup with their meals. Indian cuisine doesn't really feature soup, so the cooks came up with this. The name comes from two Tamil words meaning 'pepper water'. While recipes for this vary a great deal, the basic idea is it's a smooth curry-flavoured vegetable-based soup with maybe a bit of chicken and rice or lentils to give it body. It's not often seen these days, but maybe it's time for a revival.

Cauliflower Crust Pizza
Yes, really. A pizza with a crust made from cauliflower. You do need to 'rice' the cauliflower first though, otherwise it would be very lumpy. But seriously, cauliflower crust pizza is quite easy to make and it tastes fantastic - you need never feel guilty about eating pizza again!

Sous Vide Lamb
Oven-roasting a lamb joint to perfection can be a tricky proposition, but cooking it sous vide takes all the guesswork out of it. I made this because I was trying out a new sous vide immersion circulator I'd been given. I was surprised to see how prices have fallen - you can now pick up a decent SV immersion circulator for £60-£70 - that's less than half what I had to pay for my original one 3 years ago.

Nuovoware Immersion Circulator Review
I've been cooking using the sous vide method for about three years now, and my original immersion circulator is still going strong, if a little tired. So I was delighted when Nuovoware offered me one of their circulators to review.

Chickpea Curry
This recipe is from 'Veggie' by Dan Toombs aka The Curry Guy. Dan is an American living in Yorkshire and cooking British Indian Restaurant recipes. I've been a fan of his for a while and was pleasantly surprised when his book dropped through my letterbox!

Pappy's Texas BBQ Restaurant Popup
I'd never really visited the Lake District before, but a couple of months ago we were invited to visit Pappy's Texas BBQ smokehouse in Kendal to see how they turn big chunks of raw meat into smoky slices of utter delight. We didn't have time on that trip to see any actual lakes, so I was thrilled when Robin, who owns Pappy's invited us to visit a popup restaurant they were running at the Windermere Hotel. We booked for 2 nights at the hotel and made a proper weekend of it. As it happened, it was also our 33rd wedding anniversary.

Homity Pie
During the Second World War, food, and especially meat, was rationed in the UK. People were encouraged to grow their own vegetables in their gardens or allotments, and homity pie is a recipe that emerged at that time. The veggies - leeks, potatoes, onions - are very easy to grow in the British climate. After the war, homity pie kind of faded away, but re-emerged as a staple on the menu of Cranks Vegetarian Restaurant in London in the Sixties. It's a really tasty dish, and quite easy to make.

English Breakfast Pie
I wouldn't say an English breakfast in a pie is the Holy Grail of the pie-maker's art, but it's certainly challenging. You have a bunch of elements, some wet, some dry and one of them runny, and for most of them, being baked in a pie isn't the best way to cook them. But it's always fun to try.

A Real Texas Smokehouse in England
One of my long-standing YouTube subscribers got in touch with me recently saying he'd like to send me some smoked meat samples from his local Texan smokehouse. Fair enough, I don't usually know where my subscribers are located - they're scattered all over the world, and quite a lot of them are in Texas. So it was a bit of a surprise when I checked the link he sent me to Pappy's Texas Barbeque. It's in Kendal, Cumbria.

Potted Beef
Potted beef began life centuries ago as a way to preserve meat - but probably only for a few weeks or months. The idea was to cook beef down until really tender, then mash it to a paste, ram it into a small pot and seal the top with melted butter. So once you broke the butter seal, the paste would start to deteriorate, which is why it was always sold in small pots. Potted beef is really great on a piece of toast, on a cracker, or in a sandwich. And it's quite easy to make.

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