Chicken chasseur puff pie

Wintry Sunday dinner heaven right here ❄️ The ultimate comfort food dished up with mash & veg. The chasseur filling makes a lush change to the usual creamy chicken filling 💫 Recipe, serves 6 Ingredients: Serves 6 8 chicken thighs, bone in and skinless, and seasoned2 chicken breasts1 small onion, chopped1 leek, trimmed and chopped2…

Beef & beer slice

👀Nothing to see here Gregg’s bakery nothing to see 👀… except that my steak bake is bigger than yours!! My boys love a cheeky steak bake so thought I’d treat to them this mahoosive beef and beer slice version! It literally filled the entire baking tray! Made with simple ready made puff pastry and 3.5hr…

Spring chicken + wild garlic pesto

I’ve had my eye on the copious amounts of bright green freshly sprouting wild garlic for a week or so now, so I seized the opportunity today to forage some for dinner tonight. Paring it with basil, parmesan, and lemon makes a wonderfully fragrant pesto, the perfect partner for chicken. Here I’ve used chicken legs…

lighter lancashire hotpot

I do love Sundays. Nothing better than a little lie-in with a lovely brekkie, followed by a walk in the peaks and a onepot comforting dinner to come home to.  Not feeling it today though as I’m suffering with unwanted leg pain (whether I’m heading towards a relapse or the teeny bit of dancing I…

braised beef + porcini

My boys love a good Sunday stew in the darker months and this hits the spot after a wintry Sunday stroll and explore. Deep, dark and earthy, the beef melts in the mouth due to cooking low and slow in the oven. It can be prepared pretty quickly, and banged in the oven within 15 minutes and then…

beetroot, ginger + parsnip soup

After a murky and misty sunday morning stroll at Tegg’s nose to breathe some fresh air and blow the cold cobwebs away, we popped into the little tea rooms to refuel and they happened to be serving steaming bowls of bright pink beetroot soup. It looked so colourful and warming against the backdrop of the damp and cold morning, and gave me some…