Tag: cooking

An easy recipe for a tasty Mulligatawny soup with subtle Indian spices and thickened with rice. Perfect served with a swirl of natural yoghurt or creme fraiche & chopped coriander.

Did you know chive flowers are completely edible and make a tasty addition to lots of dishes! Here are some ideas for how to use them.

I’m a big fan of celeriac. You can pretty much do anything with it that you would with a potato but with a much healthier result! This mash is healthy and delicious too!

This is my go-to recipe for chilli, I've been making this for years and it never fails.

I love making wheaten bread. My Grandmother taught me how to make it when I was very little and even now, just the process of baking it gives me great comfort. It helps that it's delicious too!

Suzie Arbuthnot, winner of BBC's Best Home Cook 2020, shares her techniques and top tips for making shortcrust and rough puff pastry! Follow this step by step guide to make your own delicious pastry. You can then use it to make all sorts of tasty dishes. We used it to make a yummy Dijon chicken and mushroom pie.

How I came to be a mushroom farmer and my recipe for delicious filo parcels, filled with shallots, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes and cheese!

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I was thrilled to be invited to cook with celebrity chef, Rachel Allen and to learn more about the range of Ballymaloe products.

I was thrilled to be selected as the winner of the Great NI Pork Cook Off. It was hosted and judged by Andrew Smyth, of Great British Bake Off fame, for NI Pork.

Love pesto? Here are 3 great ways to use it including a pea and pesto soup, pesto dip and pesto topped salmon. Totally delicious!

I love chilli con carne and these chilli stuffed portabello mushrooms are one of my favourite serving suggestions. All the flavour of the chilli and mushroom and none of the carbs! Better still, mushrooms are really good for us and deserve to be celebrated!

I love Moroccan spices.  I am always looking for food combinations to add them to.  Having tried Moroccan beef  and Moroccan Chicken it was time for a vegetarian option.  I’m a firm believer that most of us have too much meat in our diets and am always looking for good veggie alternatives. I was keen to […]

This is a recipe that I created for the Vita Coco coconut oil #Swearbyit recipe challenge. It is delicious and worth a try!

Taking the hulls out of strawberries has always been a pet hate of mine.  When you try to cut them out, there is loads of waste but if you simply slice the top off, part of the hull is still there.  In the grand scale of problems, its not exactly top of the list but […]

A step by step video guide to making sweet potato topped cottage pie.  The video features a voice over by broadcaster, Rachel Agnew.  Do try the recipe as it tastes great, is healthy and easy to make!