Serves 4
For those of you with a sweet tooth what better way to start your day then a massive stack of pancakes dripping in maple syrup. These sour cream and buttermilk pancakes are a perfect breakfast, they are light and fluffy, delicious, with yummy flavours that are slightly different from normal pancakes.
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15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Makes 8 kebabs
Prawns are sweet, succulent and flavoursome, to make the most of them they should only be cooked for a few minutes. With prawns, simple recipes are normally best, they make the most of their sweet delicious flavours.
This prawn kebab recipe is very easy, the two main ingredients are prawns and sweet ch...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 2
A wonderful warm salad great for a light lunch or side dish, but also makes a healthy filling breakfast. Eggs and ham is perfect breakfast food, and if you are trying to be healthy, poached egg is a wonderful alternative to the typical fried egg for breakfast.
A large fragrant salad full of rocket and basil ...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 4
A delicious thick butter bean and pork stew full of warm flavours; paprika, peppers and leek is typical of the Basque region of northern France and Spain. This delicious hearty stew is a wonderful filling wholesome meal that takes less than an hour to cook and you only use one pot, saving time on the washing ...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 4
Panna cotta is a rich creamy Italian dessert that tastes beautiful with mango jelly. The creamy flavour and texture of panna cotta goes beautifully with the fresh, clean, sharp flavours of fruit, mango jelly is particularly good.
Panna cotta and mango jelly is easy and simple to make, you need very few ingre...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 6
Pimm’s and lemonade is a wonderful fruit filled cocktail, perfect for a picnic or a BBQ on a lazy summer’s afternoon. Pimm’s and lemonade works fantastically well as a fresh tasty jelly dessert, for a playful dinner party or a special treat before a girly night out on the town.
Pimm’s...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Makes 10-20
Mojito is the perfect refreshing dink on a hot summer’s day and guaranteed to get you in the party spirit. Mojito is a rum cocktail, with fresh lime, mint and sugar, simple but perfect. For an extra touch of fun, mojito jelly will liven up any party, while looking delicious and elegant.
Mojito jelly...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 6
Champagne and strawberries are a perfect match, they work wonderfully together as a jelly. Strawberries suspended in a sparkling champagne jelly makes a decadent but youthful and fun dessert.
Champagne jelly is perfect for a girly night in or the start of a fabulous night on the town. Make some Thursday even...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Makes 10 to 20
For those of us who like to put our feet up and relax with a perfect gin and tonic this is the dessert for you. Gin and tonic jelly is a playful dessert, perfect to end a summer dinner party with.
Drink flavoured jelly has come a long way since student days of vodka jelly, when it was more about the al...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 1
Grilled chicken salad makes for a tasty lunch, wonderful made and served fresh, but also a great healthy pack lunch perfect to bring into work or school.
Grilled chicken salad is full of delicious fresh flavours; the sugar snap peas are crunchy, tender and sweet, the cashew nuts and sesame seeds taste great...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 2
A quick easy lunch, ideal for tomorrow at work. Chicken pasta salad is a wonderful dish that tastes fresh and delicious, it is a perfect healthy way to keep you going throughout your afternoon.
This lunch is very quick to prepare, and if you are having chicken or pasta for dinner even better, just cook a bit...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 2
This is a wonderful side dish, and a very good reason to grow your own herbs. Chive flowers are delicate, purple, very pretty and taste fantastic. It is rare to find chive flowers in supermarkets but you can buy living chives in most supermarkets and seeds from most garden centres. The great news is chives, l...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 1
This is a wonderful traditional clam recipe, popular all over Portugal. Bulhao Pato was a Portuguese poet who is attributed with creating this dish. The dish is similar to mussels cooked in a white wine or garlic sauce, like mussels, you have a massive bowl piled high, with a light, fragrant garlic sauce.
Th...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 4
A delicious Portuguese seafood rice dish, full of prawns, crabs and mussels, but you can pick whatever seafood you like. White fish is also very good. Arroz de marisco is similar to Spanish paella but it is a bit more like a fish stew, as it still has a broth that isn’t completely reduced like paella, t...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 6
Bananas always seem to go to waste; they start going black before you have a change to eat them, easy banana ice cream is a great recipe to make the most of ripe bananas and cut down on waste.
Banana ice cream is a perfect creamy treat to cool down with on a hot summer’s day and it is extremely quick a...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Candied violets are sugar coated violets. Violets are wonderfully colourful flowers that can be eaten, they can be used in salads or cakes, eaten raw or cooked. They are fantastic to brighten up a salad or decorate a cake.
Candied violets are still popular in France. The French have always been wonderful cake makers, ...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Delicious freshly made doughnuts with an apple and cinnamon filled centre, coated in cinnamon flavoured sugar. Doughnuts are a fantastic, comforting snack all year round whether it is a ring doughnut or a jam filled one they are sure to please adults and children alike. Doughnuts and a cup of coffee may not make the he...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Makes 30
Amaretti are small almond flavoured Italian biscuits, they are crunchy on the outside with a chewy moist centre. Perfect to serve with coffee as a naughty little tea time treat or an after dinner nibble, that will impress your guests.
Amarettis go wonderfully with ice cream particularly coffee ice cream or a...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 4
A delicious traditional apple sponge pudding, soft tender stewed apples baked with a soft, moist sponge. This dessert is quick and easy perfect if you want to throw something together at the last minute. The sponge is a classic Victoria sponge recipe while all you need to do with the apples is stew them.
Thi...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010Serves 4
Albondigas or Spanish meatballs are a great tapas dish. In Spain tapas are traditional served with drinks in bars. They are appetizers often severed in small dishes meant for sharing. Lots of little tasty tapas dishes can make up a whole meal. It is a great way of eating with friends, it is sociable and...
15:37 Mon 24th May 2010
