Meals & dinners

Mastering an easy chicken roast is a great skill to teach your teenagers. A roast is also a great way to use up leftover vegetables at the end of the week – carrots, sweet potato, potato, pumpkin, parsnips and beetroot. Add some greens and gravy and you have a perfect meal. Here we show you how easy it is. [Read more…] about Roast chicken and potatoes

Nothing beats a hearty soup in cold months. Our five ingredient pea and ham soup is a meal in itself and can be frozen in portions. Getting a smoked ham hock from the butcher is often best as they are packed with flavour. Enjoy. [Read more…] about Pea and ham soup

Grecian beef is a great meal for cooler months and uses a cheap cut of meat to make it a budget friendly dish. It is a perfect dish for getting lots of vegetable serves in one meal. Use a wide-based saute pan to cook this dish.  [Read more…] about Grecian beef

Jen loved eating Japanese pancake, okonomiyaki, when she was in Japan on holidays, then came home and worked out how to make a great tasting baked version, rather than fried as it is traditionally cooked.  [Read more…] about Japanese pancake – Okonomiyaki

Steamed chicken wontons look far more complicated to make than they are. Mixing the filling takes moments, and then it is just a matter of assembling the wontons ready for steaming. These chicken wontons are great served with steamed rice, and make a fabulous meal to enlist the aid of the little people in the house. [Read more…] about Steamed chicken wontons

This fried vermicelli noodle recipe is a great way to use up leftover vegetables from the refrigerator at the end of the week. Ready in minutes, it is a super economical vegetarian dish that is perfect for a night when you are time poor. Look out: it will become your go-to quick dinner very soon. [Read more…] about Fried vermicelli noodles