Food Cheats

The best way to microwave a jacket potato isn’t the way that most other people will tell you, but, dissatisfied with the texture of many jacket potatoes cooked

This week I’ve picked up a bag of the Holme Farm Aberdeen Angus Frozen Mince from Aldi, this is a good sized bag of frozen beef mince if

I do love a pasty, so thought I’d try out the Aldi puff pastry Traditional Pasty when I saw them for sale.  I’m still fairly new to Aldi,

The sixth episode of Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients, Quick & Easy Food, Channel 4 TV show showed us Crazy Good Pork Burger, Sticky Mango Prawns, Easy Rustic Gnocchi

You can microwave raw onions, so they are soft onions or crispy onions – and they take just a few minutes!  You might wish to cook them fully,

For keeping onions so they last longer I’ve been using the green “Stay Fresh” bags for a few years now.  They are reusable, but they do lose their

If you’ve seen more than a handful of my meals, recipes and ideas you’ll have spotted that, by default, I will typically use the microwave oven and a

When you need a quick food fix, this easy 3 minute microwave burger can hit the spot!  This is one of the Oakhurst Lamb & Mint Quarterpounder Burgers

When I buy chicken balls in batter from a Chinese takeaway there’s always far too much for me – I’ll most often reheat the chicken balls the following

Just when you think cheesy beans on toast is enough joy in life, you discover Emmental cheese slices with beans on toast and have a rethink! I’d recently

The fifth episode of Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients, Quick & Easy Food, Channel 4 TV show gave out more recipes, this week it was Speedy Ginger Shaking Beef with

This savoury mince and dumplings recipe is cooked entirely in the microwave.  The main part of the dish is the leftovers from the Shepherd’s Pie recipe I made