Category: Comfort Food

If you’ve been at work all day and come home frazzled, the last thing you want to do is stand in the kitchen and cook!  This 5 minute

Rhubarb is a great fruit and whether it’s in season, or even canned rhubarb, it’s great making a microwave rhubarb sponge pudding as an impromptu dessert. Tinned rhubarb

At this time of year, with the changeable weather, a cheery leek and potato soup without cream is easy and frugal to put together. I make leek and potato soup

I was brought up on suet puddings.  My grandmother used to make great steak & kidney suet puddings in her saucepan, with the pudding basin wrapped in muslin

Can you make dumplings in a microwave? Yes, you can cook dumplings in a microwave – and they’re great tasting too. Making microwave dumplings takes just 3 minutes

A pizza base can be quick and easy to make once you realise it’s just the usual flour/fat mix. There are plenty of cheap packet mixes that make

You can mix up some quick and easy pakora bites from leftover vegetables and mashed potato, or by using frozen veg. I found myself with some frozen veg

I love dumplings - and I'm sure you do too, but the thing is: do you have any suet in? Most people think you have to use

I love Toad in the Hole, it's a real winter warmer - and a lot easier to make than you think. Here's a "no weighing out" recipe for it,