Food Cheats

The Charlie Bigham Pie dishes are a keeper.  They’re so handy for small portions, or when cooking for one – but I’ve also discovered other uses for them!

I’ve bought some Jersey Royal potatoes – we always had these potatoes when I was growing up as my dad was a Jerseyman, so they were compulsory in

A popular stand by dish, if you make potato salad using tinned potatoes it cuts down on the prep time and needing to have salad potatoes available!  I

Here are the Eat the Week recipes from this inaugural episode.  Eat the Week is a 10 episode series hosted by Simon Rimmer, chef better known for Sunday

There are several ways to cook frozen hash browns. You can use an Air Fryer to cook hash browns if you have one of these, they cook in about 8-10 minutes at

For years I’ve been a fan of buying supermarket own brand reduced sugar, reduced salt baked beans – typically I’ll just buy the multipacks of four from whatever supermarket I

I love corned beef – and often make myself a corned beef hash, sometimes it’s a microwave corned beef hash (with and without onion) and sometimes a baked corned beef

Chef Simon Rimmer’s new TV programme starts later this week, with 10 episodes showing how to make easy meals from frozen food from Iceland.  I’d love to shop

I love chilli relish – and so I decided to try out the Tesco Finest, Traditionally Made Hot Habanero Chilli Relish.  I thought this looked as if it

I love potato salad – eating most of it as a quick meal or side dish in the summer – but when you’re cooking for one it’s not

I love biryani – and sometimes take a chance on a ready meal to see if I can get that fresh indian restaurant or indian takeaway biryani taste

The passage below is taken from Section VI of the vintage Atora Recipe Book – to give a clue as to what’s inside the book if you’re pondering