Category: Recipes

Using a microwave steamer to make mashed potatoes, especially if you’re cooking for one or two people, is a quick and easy way to make your own mashed

Mini ovens are great for cooking or reheating small quantities – and quickly.  Often called toaster ovens, most are actually just small ovens and very lightweight.  They’re perfect

Whether you’re not in a position to cook pasta on a stove right now, or it’s simply too hot to even think about standing in the kitchen while

I do enjoy watching TV cookery programmes and one that’s running at the moment is Mary Berry Cooks. Mary Berry, 80, is most recently best known for being

Better than buying a ready meal in a plastic tray and wrapped in cellophane, you can be in control of the variation and quantity of food on your

Making rustic mashed potatoes is actually easier than making other types of mashed potatoes.  It’s been an increasing “food trend” in recent years as TV chefs tried to

I’ve always loved curry coleslaw. Some years ago there was a sandwich delivery van that delivered to the office where I worked and every day I’d order a

I’m afraid I get into food ruts – once I like something I’ll buy and eat it for days in a row!  Having recently bought a mini oven,

A baguette pizza’s easy to make – and I served up this tasty sweet chilli, cheese & peppers baguette pizza from my recently acquired new mini oven from

This microwave jam dumpling recipe is scalable, but my easy jam dumpling was a serves one portion.  “Food on a plate, fast” is my motto.  I don’t like cooking, I

Well, it’s hardly a recipe, but hot sausage baguettes were the order of the day.  For these I used part-baked baguettes from Lidl, some ready-cooked cocktail sausages that

If I want to make an easy microwave sausage meal, then I can always use my cupboard stocks of dried items.  Yesterday I had some mushy peas that needed