Tonight was, most definitely, a risotto night. Comfort food at its finest. Risotto alla Carbonara That is all.... Cath xx

Another slow-cooker meal tonight and, feeling a little stuck in a recipe rut, I've decided to try out a couple of new ideas this week.  ...

I find it hard to believe that I've never posted a recipe for good old macaroni cheese but, probably assuming that it isn't beyond t...

Hooray, it's Friday!  Our supper tonight was one of those dishes that I first started cooking to use up leftover meat from a roast ch...

The weather dropped much colder again today, so we were all in need of something warm and soothing for supper tonight.  This lamb and barle...

I really, and I mean REALLY, love leeks.  I adore them and would happily eat them, cooked in all sorts of ways, several times a week.  I rat...

My eldest son came home from school a week ago, having been on a field trip to taste the food at a local Italian restaurant (I know! How goo...

I've written before that I can't go very long without getting major cheeseburger cravings.   Having instituted the concept of the ...

I have been remiss with trying out recipe ideas recently, so I've taken advantage of the latter, less busy, part of the half-term holida...

OK, so it's only just barely a recipe, but it is very useful especially if, like me you do your supermarket shopping after school and th...

Sometimes, changing just one thing can make something rather dull into something really rather fabulous.  On a shopping trip last week, the ...

OK, Back to it.  This is what I cooked tonight, making use of the contents of the 'fridge... After using it as an accompaniment for my F...

These cheesy scones go really well with LOADS of different meals, or stand alone as a super snack,.  They are easy enough to make, provided ...

Let's face it, sometimes it just has to be pie.  However, at the moment I'm suffering from a nasty cold and don't feel much like...

Back-to-school day turned out to be a bit of an anti-climax in the end; heavy snow overnight and this morning meant that the local schools w...

This is one of our real family favourite that, while it bears a slight resemblance to, and carries the name of, a classic dish, probably be...

I was going to make stuffed pancakes today - until late this morning, when I remembered that (a) I had a pack of tortillas in the freezer th...

I'm a manic clipper of magazines and newspapers. Anything that I think might come in handy in future gets torn out and goes in my cutti...

This is a slightly more upmarket version of my usual cheese strata . It occurs to me that, as a supper dish, it might be nice to layer some...

Well, the weather continues to be, frankly, crap. Neither cold and wet nor warm and dry; just kind of cloudy and damp all the time, with tem...