Proper carbonara doesn’t contain cream. I experimented with a few different recipes before settling on this as a final version. This is comfort food at its best and only takes around 20 minutes to make. Ingredients 25-30g finely grated cheese per person, ideally a 50/50 mix of parmesan and pecorino 1 egg per person Black… Continue reading Proper spaghetti carbonara
I made this for our Christmas day starter and was really pleased with it. So much so that I’m writing the recipe down here so I can recreate it next year. You could make it healthier by leaving the cream out, it still tastes good without it. Ingredients: 1 leek 1 onion 2 carrots 2… Continue reading Sweet potato and squash soup
Tried several in the past, but this BBC Good Food recipe is the nut roast we’ve made for the last couple of years that is even more popular than pigs in blankets in our house. So much so that I’m making a second one this year so we can continue eating it for the next… Continue reading The best nut roast
Bored of turkey sandwiches already but don’t want to waste the leftovers? We found the answer: Kentucky fried turkey! A variation on my southern fried chicken recipe from earlier in the year, this one is perfect for using up those remaining scraps of Christmas turkey. We served it with salad which worked well. This recipe… Continue reading Kentucky fried leftover turkey
Messing About In The Kitchen 